June 18, 2009
The beer area is near the front of the store (and a cooler door in the back) and is your average wide bookshelf sized space you see in most of the liquor stores around here. The thing that was odd was that for the most part there were only 1 or 2 of each beer. Sometimes you’d find 3 of something, but it just felt like they stocked beer because they had to. The selection wasn’t bad, but based on other stores in the Nashville area it is average at best. There was also an incident that left me puzzled. After perusing their selection, I approached the counter where I explained that I was doing some reviews and asked if I could take a picture or two. A manager (?) came out and asked me "What site is this for?" I told him that I was doing reviews for a major beer website and my own Tennessee-area beer site. He replied, "I think we’d rather not." While not unfriendly, it came off somewhat dismissive. I politely thanked him and proceeded to shop a bit before leaving. I understand that sometimes stores don’t wish to have pictures taken for security reasons or whatever, but if this was the case he would have said that up front instead of asking what website the review was for. I just got the impression that if I had said the review was for a wine website things would have been different. Not a big deal, but it left a sour taste. I can’t recommend going to Maryland Farms Wine & Spirits. The selection is average compared to other Nashville area "goto" places and I just didn’t get a good beer vibe. Please feel free to check it out for yourself, perhaps I was just there on an off day or they were about to restock. But there are much better options.

October 4, 2008
This place is right beside Olde World Leaf and Ale. As per good ol’ TN laws, this place serves all the beers over 6.25%. Selection is not even half that of Red Dog, but still nothing to thumb your nose at. Lots of high alc imports here, more Ukranian, and Russian, than Belgian. Some selection of flying dog, and left hand. Service was friendly but didn’t really know anything about the beers. Prices weren’t horribly unreasonable. Definitely worth a peek in if you are already next door.