101 Bottles of Beer On the Wall

Love this place. Excellent selection of beers, knowledgeable staff, and a really cool bar and patio. There are a few other shops in Kent, but this place kills them all in my opinion. Best selection in the area. Great craft on tap.

Great place to grab a delicious craft beer! We love their local (Ohio) beer taps. Staff is friendly and knowledgeable and offers great suggestions. Also a great place to grab a six pack of different brews! The patio is a nice place to sit on a warm summers night.

I like this place. I’ve always liked it for retail, it’s been my go-​to source for top shelf craft brews. Best selection in the area. You want a six? — they have it. You want a big single? — it’s here. Want to mix and match? Go for it. Want a growler? Take a guess — they have ‘em. Pretty much anything you want (even craptastic domestic swill).
Also a wide variety of quality ciders (try the local Griffin’s), plus wines and liquor.
Since they opened the bar, it’s become a great place to just chill. Cool, friendly, knowledgeable bar staff, and a nice range of rotating new kegs to try. Samples always available. It’s classy-​cool in a way you don’t typically encounter in a small, middle-​of-​nowhere Midwestern college town.
Plus it was the first place I found where I could buy Lagunitas. I really like Bottles. Go there and be happy. Cheers.

This place has an awesome variety of beer. The place is great and the staff is knowledgable.
Now, when I say an awesome variety of beer, I mean for an independent shop in a little city in Ohio. I’ve been to places with more variety, particularly in Kentucky, but this has a lot of stuff in a tiny place. And, to make it better, they have beers on draft and a small bar where you can get them, then opt to take them home in a growler. They usually have a good variety, but there are times where it will be like ALL IPAs or just one type of beer with maybe a stout or too. Usually I’m able to find a few I like though. They have a lot of wine as well as beer too. Definitely the best place in the Akron area to find neat, craft bottles.

This place surprisingly does not fit in with what I typically expect to exist in Kent — and that is a good thing! According to my beer/​stout/​ale appreciating friend, the selection is varied and deeeeeeeeelicious. I myself had a few glasses of wine, and was a happy camper. They even had bar pretzels to snack on!
The workers were friendly. The place looked nice. Bathroom was clean. Long drinks list. Definitely a good experience! I don’t visit Kent often, but this will be a place I would go again if in the area!

Still the best place for beer in Kent, an excellent beer bar, and now Wi-​Fi. What’s not to love?

I lived on Columbus Street while attending KSU and would visit Bottles for beers runs. I was a 40 oz drinker with the occasional Red Hook ESB or St. Pauli Girl on fancy days. That was long before Bottles turned into a full service bar.
The selection of to-​go beers is impressive as the tap selection. Flights are available and they have special events for rare releases. The KBS bottle release event is 5 days away. On my last visit I scored a bottle of Bells Black Note. I prefer this place to Riverside and it is almost worth moving back down to Kent.

Outstanding selection of microbrews and very knowledge staff. Great tasting room with a good mix of styles — for a hophead like me, I was in hop heaven! I also purchased some unique ¹⁄₆ barrel kegs for the kegorator — always reasonably priced for some beers you can’t get elsewhere.

They have bourbon now and the bar!

As far as selection of beer goes, it is great. They have a solid bottle selection featuring some of the greats from every beer style. There draft list is always full of everything from a local favorite (peanut butter cup porter) to some not-​so-​easy to get such as the current I want, but can not have all the time– Three Floyds.
Now, here is where it gets bad. I have been here 5 times since they started draft service. Three out of five I had the unfortunate luck of dealing with the rudest, most dull, and arrogant bar tender ever. I tried to spark a simple conversation, asking about the taste of a beer on draft and he nearly treated me as if I killed his grandmother. He mumbled out an answer and then began to talk to his friend who was a patron at the bar. I can get over this, BUT, each time I was there I tipped him 40% of the check average (I am a fellow bartender and always appreciate a bigger than expected tip).
HE NEVER EVEN SAID THANK YOU!
This happened the firs time, so I thought maybe he was busy and forgot. The second time he failed to produce one speck of gratitude toward my generosity. So, just on principle, I again, one last time tipped him and he failed to thank me. I’m sorry my friend, but when you rely on people to tip you for a living, you must show gratitude with a simple «thank you». Is it that hard?
Very disappointed with the staff at this place. I will never again step foot in the establishment when this snuffy, thick framed glasses kid is working ever. Not again, not ever. I hate to go on a rant, but I am furious about it because I enjoy this place, but just can’t continue to give business to a person such as him.
Good luck if you decide to go there to enjoy a beer and talk to a reasonable bartender.

Great selection of wines and beers!

Awesome place.
Great selection of beer and when they have specials on overstock it is amazing, prices you can’t get ANYWHERE else on good beer. The bar is great with tons of new beer and even ciders and mead, always changing. I buy all my beer here, and great wine selection. Nice staff too. I got a bad 6 pack and the manager called me and made everything ok!

Very nice location with a great selection of microbrews and a moderate selection of wine. They execute well but many places do that these days.
101 Bottles has a unique offer for a liquor store which is the bar in the back. They have regional brews on tap at extremely fair prices. You can stop in to pick up a 6 pack and have a beer while you’re thinking about what to take home.

Best selection of beer within a 60 mile radius.

First trip: My husband and I stopped in to try the new bar and we were blown away. The selection is dynamite and we had several tasting paddles. While the service was not friendly at all we still had a wonderful time.
2^nd trip: New drafts and this time a different bartender who was friendly, knowledgeable and really on top of it. He made our time a wonderful one.
TIP: They will fill any growlers!

Amazing place. If in the area stop in. They always have rare beers to choose from. They have also opened a bar serving craft beers on draft.

Clean and neat and VERY friendly and helpful staff! I came in with my husband who was looking for something specific and not only did the staff show us where the product was, even proceeded to describe the flavors of each and his personal opinion of each and why. I LOVED IT!!! On a whim I asked about ICE WINE (YUMMMM) and he did the same thing. Showed us the varieties, told us his favorites and why, answered questions on other brand, told us about wine tasting night and was just ALL AROUND HELPFUL!!!
I WILL GO BACK!!!

Great, great place. A very clean venue with knowledgeable staff — you can find a lot of great beers and almost every vino bottle you wanted here!
I wouldn’t have written a review — but I recently learned they put in a bar and immediately jumped in my car and took a gander!
The beer selection is top notch. You will not find your commercial beers (e.g., Coors, Bud Light, Miller Light) but only great, delicious beers in crafty glasses! Think double chocolate stouts, triple IPAs… AND at great prices!
The bartender had great recommendations, fun facts, and enthusiasm when we walked in and were the only customers. However, my only complaint would be that, as the bar filled up with her *regulars*, it was hard to feel included or waited on. Free pretzels on the bar feels like a bar should be – all in all: get there if you can! And early, its a small area and fills up. Welcome Bottles 101 Bar to Kent!!!

I have purchased my fair share of wine and beer from 101 over the years and feel they have great prices and a huge selection. You can get excellent beer/​wine advice by any of the people who work here.
They recently opened up a bar area and it is awesome! The atmosphere is cool and quiet, the on-​tap beers are all high quality, and you can have flights to taste a larger number while you’re there. If you’re looking for Bud or Miller Light you’ll be sad because they don’t sell those here — just the good stuff. They have a Lambic on tap and a hard cider too for those of you who don’t drink beer. Wine and wireless access will be coming to 101 soon.
This is going to be my new hang out guaranteed!

Massive selection of beer from all over, with really knowledgeable staff. Only real complaint is maybe a lack of cider, but thats just me. Store is big and open, but the recent addition of a tasting bar in the shop just makes it excellent. and also the closest bar to the Kent campus which doesn’t hurt.