Oak Tree Discount Wines and Liquors

Shockingly, this place won best bottle shop in New Jersey again for 2020!? Don’t waste your time going there. The are many other locations throughout New Jersey that are leaps and bounds above this place. Clearly the folks at Rate Beer are clueless when it comes to rating bottle shops in New Jersey. (Posted on 02/04/2021). The overall rating is extremely misleading. No way this is the best bottle shop in New Jersey for 2019. This place used to be really good about 5 or so years ago. New ownership took over and gutted the craft beer selection. Don't waste your time. If your looking for a decent craft beer store close by, try Canal's in Iselin, NJ or Jersey Fine Wines in East Brunswick, NJ. Both are just a few miles away from Oak Tree Liquors.

I concur with the previous rater - I don’t get how this is rated well. This is a pretty terrible shop for beer, but decent for wine. Very limited beer selection, with mostly only stuff available in 6-packs and few if any top NJ stuff. Waste of time - do not bother stopping here.

I have never encountered a more overrated place. Maybe the ownership or management has changed. The ambiance is crap, the selection is mediocre, and very few beers are available as singles. What a waste of time going to this place.

How on earth is this a 98 overall rating?? Only a very OK selection, poor service.

Was in the area so i stopped in since it had such a high rating. The wine section had a nice look with vine wrapped trestes. Once i got to the beer section i was far less impressed. No real effort put into it. And even though the dedicated space was a good size, the variety was rather limited. Prices seemed to file the high/low model. Service was good and knowledgeable

Standard liquor store vibe. Staff is extremely friendly. Selection is a mixed bag. They seem to always have a few random things no one else on the area has but on the whole it seems to have fallen off over the last few years. Prices are also mixed. Most of the bombers seemed ok but a lot of the singles on the Mix 6 section were a little pricy. Overall pretty decent but not the destination it once was.

Apparently the previous owner was a craft beer junkie, but this place is not anything close to the descriptions and ratings it’s been given here. MUCH MUCH better options in the area

A smaller liquor store with a rather poor beer selection. Most of the beers were of the widely available type, regional brews. Prices seemed fair and I did find a couple beers to buy, but I was hoping for a lot more from this place based on other reviews.

Well after reading the reviews and seeing all the high ratings for so long I decided it was finally time to check out the Oak Tree. I headed down there on a Sunday afternoon...maybe a 40 min drive from my house. So really...I totally don’t get what the big deal is about this place, and I have no idea why it gets such high ratings other than from people who live nearby. I would not go out of my way to frequent this place...but obviously I’d shop here if I lived very close. The problem is that the selection really isn’t that great at all. There is one aisle of US craft beers and maybe a half aisle of import craft beers. Very little here was that special with a few exceptions (nice selection of Mikeller single hop series). The prices were not great...in fact to make the trip not be a total waste of my time I built 2 six packs of 12 oz singles. When they rang them up I noticed the prices varied considerably from $2.29 to $5.49 each with the high end being a 12 oz can of Oscar Blues Ten Fidy. Bottomline...I’ll pay a little extra for something special...nothing really special here. If you want to know how a craft beer store is done right...take a visit to Liquor Outlet Wine Cellars in Booton (see my review on that place). In all fairness...the people at Oak Tree were friendly to me...but for reasons I’ve mentioned I really think this place is greatly overrated as a craft beer store.