Cranbury Buy-Rite

Helpful people, great beer selection, I travel from Edison to here for stuff!

Worst place ever staff is horrible close the doors right on you go elsewhere stay away

Buy rite has the best mix and match craft beer selection in this area. They have empty packs of four or six for you to mix up your selection of single loose bottles depending on your preference. Lots to choose from both on the shelves and in the coolers. I’m a fan of dark beers and they have a wide array of porters and stouts to satiate my pallet. They also have a ton of ipas, belgian ales, and whatever else you can think of. They have a banana bread beer that’s delicious and difficult to find and they used to carry Kind beers which were awesome also also difficult to find. The other side of the store is lined with liquor and wine. This place is pretty huge. I’d venture to say they have something for everyone at this place. The photos on Unilocal look nothing like what it looks like now. Totally renovated and much more organized than the photos show.

After over a year of half a store due to occupancy issues, cluttered shelves, no organization, leaking coolers and a general atmosphere of malaise Buy-​Rite of Cranbury is back.
The whole building is stocked and occupied, craft beers of every type is well stocked and priced, a new wall of coolers now line the front and the wines and liquors are back .
The prices have risen and the beer taps to fill your growlers are now no more which is a shame.
While conveniently located I will still patronize the even better and vastly cheaper Bottle King just a couple miles down on Rt130 but for a quick trip buy Rite will do.

I mostly agree with Max G.‘s review — this place used to be a veritable beer mecca. Go here now, and yes, some good craft beer remains. However, it is more sparse in variety than it used to be in the past (which is still better and more diverse than your run of the mill bottle shop), and extremely disorganized and messy.
The building itself is terrifying. The entire property has really fallen into a state of disrepair.
The good news is that the prices are generally very fair.

This place has gone considerably down hill. From what used to be a very well organized craft beer place, it has literally fallen apart. One side of the building is even condemned. There is still one guy who works there that truly seems invested in this places and has high hopes that it’ll someday return to the form it was in but I just got out of there and the two owners from what it seemed like were incredibly rude. Bottle king for now on it seems.

this place has Sweet Baby Jesus on tap.

Great selection of beers!!! Diamond in the rough! Don’t be fooled by its creepy parking lot.

Awesome selection of craft beer and a knowledgeable staff. What more can you ask for?

I call this place «Beer Nirvana» to my friends and family. The selection of microbrews is the best I’ve ever seen, and fortunately it’s only a few mile from my home. Also (fortunately) the prices are very competitive. The staff is helpful, and although the shelving is a bit disorganized it is all part of the adventure. *Highly* recommended if you’re a beer aficionado.

As others have noted, this place looks like an absolutely abandoned death trap motel or something from the outside, but the inside is pure alcohol heaven. At least half of the store is dedicated to craft beer and it’s amazing. Hats off to their purchasers because if it’s distributed in this area, they may have it. Shelf of imports as well. If you love beer you have to see this place for yourself.

This place seems a little sketchy with it’s abandoned parking lot that has weeds growing everywhere and a faux hotel façade. I’m not quite sure if they’re under construction or just really unorganized. They have a big selection of liquor, wine and beer but the shelves are overflowing and a lot of inventory is lying on the floor. The prices are competitive.
I was only shopping for some cheap beer to boil lobsters in so I went to the cooler area and looked for a 6 pack of coors light. I didn’t see any and started walking towards the other side of the store when one of the workers came out of the cooler and asked what I was looking for. I was impressed and skeeved out at the same time because he was being observant but watching me from the cooler. Either way, he brought me the coors light.
There’s another part of the store that’s completely barren and gutted that’s behind the cash register. Scary.
Does anyone else feel embarrassed buying coors light? I left a little uneasy and ashamed that I didn’t get to explain to the cashier why I was buying watered down beer. Oh wells.

Great selection of liquors … Fantastic service around the area, definitely have my vote for the best liquor store in the area.

Amazing selection of beer, with fridge section, but also a wide assortment of wines and alcohols. Great prices, not far from the NJTP so you can stop on a ride through to NYC or Philly.

This place is the BEST FOR BEER!
They have an awesome selection,
a mix-​a-​six loose bottle wall, huge choice of bombers, tons of six’s, unique Belgian imports, and a good amount cold too.
Check it out!

I dunno why Unilocal says this business is closed, I called and checked the address and I was there this past weekend and it is MORE then open.
This place is a Beer Nerd heaven! My friend and I found this place on beeradvocate. (
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This place has an AWESOME and almost unmatched selection statewide, I can only think of 1 other store with a selection like this in south plainfield… but this place is def more of a deal price wise. I saw almost every beer I could want… so many selections from so many styles from so many places… its IMPOSSIBLE to pick one… but the great thing is… you dont have to! They offer an almost complete selection of LOOSIES!!! So you can build up your own self chosen 6 pack of anything you want. Wanna sample this? Try that? No problem!.. even better is these build ur owns make GREAT personalized gifts for people… Just make sure u keep an eye on the prices of what you select… some of them can sneak up on ya when your buying 2 or more of these six packs lol
They even let me break up a 6pack of one that wasnt on the lose shelf to put into my 6pack.
All the beers were fresh and well kept (when you have a selection this big the chances of getting a dud tend to go up as some beers sell faster then others… I get this a lot as sum1 who likes stouts and porters during the summer months. but everything from here ROCKED.
I suggest the Fuller’s London porter! Its a great brew I recently dicovered on tap in Boston… its a RARE find here at home.
Theres also a wide selection of Belgians, Heffes, Whit’s, and Trippels to chose from. Theres no way any beer snob can go in here and NOT find something they like!
The service was great, every1 we spoke to was happy and friendly and helpful as well as knowledgeable about the beers (and when u have this many thats a LOT to know). They def get points for that.
If your into craft brew this is a DONT MISS THIS IN A MILLION YEARS type place! You will kick yourself in the ass if you pass this place over!