Cotteridge Wines

«OMG the wife and I have been on the sofa for hours gazing at the TV grazing on snacks.»
That will be the result of attending the 20^th birthday celebrations at Cotteridge Wines then! T’was a Siren Craft Brewery takeover and it was awesome. 15 or so SC beers on tap — totally spoiled.
Cotteridge Wines is an absolute must for any lover of fine ales and beers. They have a tasting room out back where you can typically buy by the ¹⁄₃ pint and also drink the beers from the shop. They have also just opened a «tasting garden».
The shop is a treasure trove of the best beer money can buy. When beer loving friends visit I proudly take them to this little gem.
Don’t waste anymore time GO!

What a great place, not very near to where I live but worth the visit. 100’s if not 1000’s of beers to choose from. You need to be quick though to get some of the new stuff. Have a beer in the back room if you love beer you can’t miss this place.

Open on a Sunday, unlike its closest competitor Stirchly Wines. I’m thinking the name of this place is a little inappropriate, and that they’d get considerably more custom by changing their name to something reflecting the vast amounts of craft beer and ale that they sell.
Regardless of this, the shop is a brilliant moderately sized cave containing treasures of craft beers and ales that you simply won’t find in supermarkets. Most ales are priced a little lower than what you’d pay in a pub for them, but as anyone who drinks this kind of beer knows, you won’t find them selling a six pack of any of the ales. This means that you can easily spend quite some time here choosing from a variety of different beers to try!
Key to anyone who’s been to stirchly wines for this kind of thing is that cotteridge wines stock many of the drinks that you won’t find there. If you’re down that way I’d recommend visiting both for a real craft beer treat.
If you were looking for wine, they have a selection of these too, along with a generous selection of ciders that you’ll struggle to find elsewhere off the shelf.
To choice!

What does the word ‘Beer’ mean to you? If its 6 cans of Becks Vier for a fiver, you probably arent going to be particularly plussed about Cotteridge Wines (though they will happily provide such tipples).
If on the other hand beer means wierd, rare and wonderful brews from breweries around the world from Double IPAs to Saisons to Chocolate Imperial Stouts, then Cotteridge Wines will be your Nirvana.
A choice of 12 cask ales to be taken home in your ‘growler’ (or sampled on site in their tasting room /​speakeasy), a wall of american, belgian and scandinavian beers and a huge selection of british ales make this possibly the best off license in the UK.
They stock beers from brewers such as The Kernel, Mikkeller, Evil Twin and Siren Craft, some of which are seriously difficult to track down in the UK.
The beer here isn’t cheap (limited quantities, import tax/​costs, high quality ingredients, but the prices are very reasonable for what you get, they often beat many mail order companies on price, which is an impressive feat for a ‘bricks and mortar’ shop (they even sell bottles of certain Brewdog beers at lower costs than the brewery themselves!).

Cotteridge Wines until a few years ago was like any other off license, struggling to compete with supermarkets, who offer alcohol as a ‘loss-​leader’. At one point Jaz must have had a revelation and realised that they need not compete, they operate a different business model. Choice became more important. They expanded their shelves to include ales and beers rarely seen anywhere else in Birmingham. This soon had the beer tickers all over the shop like a rash. Jaz & Kal have made it their personal mission to find and stock some (if not all) of the finest beers from across the country and further afield. They make regular trips in their van to the south and north of the country, visiting the brewers directly so as to cut out the ‘middle-​man’. They have secured direct shipping from oversees brewers, including those in the states. With well known local beer geek Roberto Ross now on their team, that have also recently opened a tasting room with 14 keg taps serving some of the finest beers in the otherwise beer desert of Cotteridge.
CW is well worth a visit for anyone that likes good beer. My only downside would be that I find it difficult to walk in and out without spending a vast amount of money.

Excellent collection of craft beer, cider, and perry. Nothing we have found like it in Redditch or Birmingham area. Keep up the good work these guys really know their beer. It was really nice to find this place. They have stone, flying dog, and evil twin just to name a few.

This is a pretty good off license, they stock a range of different alcoholic beverages and so there is something here for everyone. They often have various deals on too and the prices are not too expensive, which makes it quite a popular place! I have always found that the staff are friendly and helpful in here. They have often recommended drinks to me when I have asked them and they seem to know their stuff too. It is quite organised and tidy inside and so I have never had much of a problem finding what I want. Overall, I think it is a good little drinks place and it is worth a visit if you live in the local area and would like something in particular rather than just a cheap bottle of wine.

Cotteridge Wines on the Pershore Road is well stocked and always has rucks of offers. So many that they fill up the windows with posters displaying them. You could be forgiven from it’s appearance for thinking it is just another cheap off licence but they are very well stocked in specialty items too. A good place to get world beers or unusual liquor that you might not find anywhere else. They even have a twitter keeping you updated of their stock.
I would recommend Cotteridge Wines as both a local off licence and a place to get imported beers and wines. You can pick up bargains in both categories.