Woodman’s Food Market (Carpentersville)

5/28/2008 8:46:28 PM, wednesday, may 28, 2008
In this area, this is correctly the best beer store...however, do not expect anything special at all....just a billion midwestern six packs...the rest of the store rocks.

4/12/2008 2:02:45 PM, saturday, april 12, 2008 [ Updated saturday, april 12, 2008 ]
this by far is the best woodmans i’ve been in, nice selection of imports and domestics beers. have a limited selection of mix and match but you can get around that

12/9/2007 10:59:36 PM, sunday, december 09, 2007
I’m going to be honest, this place is a HUGE. disappointment. It’s gigantic, but having seven places for a stack of Bud Light is NOT selection. They have few new beers, and a good selection of beer in general, so I suppose if you’re in the neighborhood and you’re desperate it’s worth a stop, but it’s not worth it if you’re looking for a decent selection of seasonals of difficult-to-find micros. I think you might be far better off checking out a smaller grocery store.

2/27/2007 8:20:20 AM, tuesday, february 27, 2007 [ Updated tuesday, february 27, 2007 ]
This is one big grocery store! The liquor department is a separate entity and is as large as many stand-alone bottle shops. If you’re just shopping for beer, you’d be best off parking and entering at the North-end of the building.

A clean place... rather airy. Prices here are very nice, although (as mentioned before) the selection was rather bland. Deeper discounts on purchases of 6+ of the same item. No more Bells. No mead. A smattering of this and that. Nearly everything is cold... including the help. Cashier was nice but everyone else ignored me. Goofy brick-tiled floor makes your bottles clink and clank like a Pachinko machine as you push your cart around the store.

My sister lives just up the road so I may stop at Woodman’s again if I know her fridge is empty.

1/29/2006 6:49:31 PM, sunday, january 29, 2006 [ Updated monday, march 06, 2006 ]
Let me begin by saying this isn’t really Carpentersville. Exactly the same as the other Woodman’s I went to in Beloit. However, the selection is much different. A lot of Bells- $6.99, Great Lakes-$6.39, Three Floyds-$7.49. There are some good micros here, especially for a grocery store, and everything is cheap. They had the most pathetic assortment of singles, mostly Berghoff stuff and leinenkuggels. Imports were pretty lame. They had a fairly good selection of bombers and bigger bottles of European stuff. You can’t beat the prices here. I’m gonna shop here more often.

10/13/2005 1:19:07 PM, thursday, october 13, 2005 [ Updated thursday, october 13, 2005 ]
Okay, this is just like any other Woodmans and has a pretty good selection for beer in general. They do have some good stuff occasionally, things like Dreadnaught, bells, capital, etc. Dont expect anything grand, but within 30 miles right now this is the best that is out there.