February 20, 2012
Small beer shop with decent collection of beers from around the world. Most of the German beer are still quite common. The Belgian section consists of mainly typical Trappist and some other well known stuff. Also some beer from Canada and Africa. The service was rather weird although I spoke German . Also the prices are for local way overpriced. I got one overpriced Moosehead and got the f out as fast as I could. As said selection decent but too pricey by all norms, this goes for mainly international beers but also typical German beers.

December 13, 2011
Small shop filled to the brim with beer. It’s actually hard to move around the shop without constantly taking care not to bump into the beers. The clerk was friendly enough, but he had some beers which had labels in Cyrillic and he was unable to tell me which country they were from. I had hoped for Belarus like Ogivlado but ended up with two pale lagers from Russia instead. The selsction was good with lots of German beers and lots of exotic countries as well. The prices were very high for Germany. On some of the exotic beers prices were double of Ambrosetti. Go here only after you have visited Ambrosetti and you still have room for more beer.

November 3, 2011
Small beer shop with very nice selection of Germans plus some beers from hard to get countries (like Belarus for me). Bit higher prices than Ambrosetti or other getränke shops, but charging common Sierra Nevada, Brooklyn and similar foreign beers more than 5€ is totally insane.

October 27, 2011
Strange place with a strange man behind the counter. Excellent selection of beer and easy to find. It’s just a short walk for Alexanderplatz down the former Stalinallee (now Karl-Marx Allee) and almost right on top of the U-bahn (Strausberger Platz).

October 17, 2011
Big selection of German beer, both local standard beers, lots of Bavarians and beer from other areas. As a tourist looking for German beer it’s quite interesting. Prices are definitely more expensive than most German places.

August 2, 2011
gran selección alemana!pequeña pero efectiva!

June 10, 2011
Brought with me a list of 9 different beers. Four of them Belgian and five of them German beers. An old lady helped me find the beers on the list. I went home with five beers. Three from Belgium and two from Germany. My main priority was Westy 12. She had never heard of it though. Weird...

October 10, 2010
This is an ok place. Berlin is one of the best places in the world to have a beer but a difficult place to buy a micro-brew. Bier-Spezialitäten-Laden has a great selection of beers that you have probably already had. There are a lot of the German brews that you might want to buy because there just isn’t a lot of places to buy them. But that alone does not make the place special. I took the owner a gift bottle of Westy 12 and he didn’t even know what it was - never heard of it.

July 31, 2010 [ Updated April 5, 2011 ]
I went here twice about two years ago, and felt the same as many reviewers, lots of german beer and not much else. Then last week I went again to find some Doppel Hirsch, and lo and behold they have broadened their horizons considerably. Lots of belgian beer (chimay, orval, st louis, jupiler, palm, etc) as well as quite a few american brews, including sierra nevada pale ale and torpedo. I was pleasantly surprised, and have to recommend that anyone who visited in the past and found it unexciting to give it another chance. Re-rated: just went back there on April 1st, 2011 and realized just how expensive it is. They no longer have a monopoly on Chimay or Sierra Nevada in Berlin and anything else they have can be had elsewhere for cheaper and nicer. Also, the service suffers markedly when the old fella isn’t there. Not worth it given the other options in town now.

June 9, 2010
Good beer-shop. Great selection of German beers. A beer-lover must visit this place.