You Won’t Find Any Drafts in Here

If faced with a Family Feud challenge to come up with the names of ten bottled beers that might be found at this store, you’d be hard-pressed. And the owners Joe Carroll and Kim Barbour like it that way.  Younger sibling to the bar by the same name, Spuyten Duyvil (”spitting devil” in dutch) grocery specializes in rare and obscure ales, lagers, and ciders from around the world. You’ll find that almost everything in the store comes from small producers from around the world, so don’t expect to find that one beer you drank at every pub in Europe.  

As everything is sold in individual bottles, this is not the place you’ll want to go to  stock up on beer for your Super Bowl party, unless you want to be the coolest guy or gal at the party and look like you really know your beer. If that’s the case, then you’ll want to check out the winter ales (or other seasonal beers) from Scandinavia, Olfabrikken from Denmark, traditional lambic beers, and the Piccolo Birrificio Chiostro — an Italian beer brewed with absinthe leaves. 

And if you’re ever in doubt of what to buy, manager George Vitray is on hand to help you translate your tastes into a selection that won’t disappoint. 

Because New York State laws require you to be a grocery store in order to sell beer, Spuyten Duyvil also carries a nice hand-picked selection of non-perishable food items such as McClure’s Pickles, Rick’s Picks, Mast Brother’s and Claudio Corallo chocolates, and many other specialty items. Combined together, the beers and food items make for the ultimate gift basket that no one will recycle to the office kitchen. 

Spuyten Duyvil Grocery
218 Bedford Avenue (in the Mini Mall)
Brookly, NY 11211
718-384-1520