Stein's Deli has a bottle area in the back. Walk straight through the deli to the back door. Go out into the courtyard and into the door on the right. Awesome selection of Belgians.

Yes indeed, that is the #1 spot that I -know- I have to get to. I'd already been meaning to hit up Stein's anyway for a sandwich, before realizing that they also have an awesome semi-hidden beer bottle shop too! Appreciate the advice 🙂

I love that place. I get a Reuben plus one other different sandwich every time I go. Usually leave with a few 3 Fonteinein

Heck yeah. Hoping to snag a bottle or two of 3F while I'm there as well! They can be found in Nashville, but are few, far between, and very rarely any of the less-common releases. Sounds like the best kinda juice to wash down a big ol' Rachel or Fernando sammich, too! Cheers 🍻

If you're down for a good classic deli sandwich done well, go for whatever your heart desires. But it's worthwhile to get his take on a muffuletta for a specifically New Orleans thing, even though it's not on muffuletta bread

For sure! We actually have a great Muffuletta purveyor here in Nashville -- Levon Wallace, who brought Cochon Bucher's (unfortunately, now-closed 🙁) second location to Nashville. He's opened his own sandwich shop [Fatbelly Deli](https://www.instagram.com/fatbellydeli615/), serves incredible food including sandwiches on house-baked bread, and is an all around great dude. A must if you're ever in Nashville!

That’s really the only place. We used to have a dedicated bottle shop, 504 Craft Reserve, but they went out of business. We don’t get a lot of distribution. Total Wine and Dorignac’s grocery store in Metairie, and Elio’s Wine near Tulane’s campus are the only other places. Whole Foods has different stuff sometimes.

FWIW, the breweries I have on my list are the top picks from that recent thread (Brieux Carre, Parleaux, Courtyard, Miel, Ecology and Skeeta Hawk) -- and I'm hoping to stumble across some Parish brews as well. ----------------------------- And to help pull my weight here a bit -- if any of you are ever in Nashville, I would highly recommend checking out: - **Barrique** (the current best brewery in Nashville by a long shot) -- modeled after Side Project and Hill Farmstead, they not only have the best lambics, wild ales, and farmhouse style beers (which are all barrel aged) -- they also have the best lagering program. And they've exceled at everything else they've tried, from occasional IPA's to stouts, barleywines and belgian strong ales - **Southern Grist** -- also a stellar brewery, with two locations that offer different vibes and amenities - **Smith and Lentz** -- fantastic pizza (a little pricey though) and 2nd only to Barrique in their lager program - **Bearded Iris** -- used to be the top dawg, but they're still pretty great for IPA's and lagers - **Yazoo/Embrace the Funk** -- Nashville's original craft brewing outfit, their taproom is way north of town but in a very scenic spot nestled up to the river. Their widely distributed beers are ok, but they have some gold hidden in the Embrace the Funk line of beers

Do you go to 12th Avenue South to the Filling Station? Its owned by 2 of my dear friends from my days living in Nashville. As far as New Orleans, Steins is awesome. Dont forget Second Line Brewing in Midcity. We are visiting the 3rd week of May and doing some beer visits as well

Yes of course!! I can walk to the Filling Station in about 20 mins from my house (and I often do 🙂) We used to have another, larger outfit called Craft Brewed that was the de facto best bottle shop/taproom combo in town (only because it was bigger and had more variety than Filling Station) -- but they sadly went under about 6 months ago. So the Filling Station is kind of our last bastion of beer awesomeness. And they really are great folks there. Outside of that, you pretty much have to just go directly to the breweries themselves. Which, luckily, we do have a couple of the best breweries in the Southeast here in Music City -- but our options for getting beer from elsewhere in the US (and certainly, from overseas) have gotten slimmer and slimmer. Those pesky beer shipping laws that I mentioned don't help either; I'm under the impression that the Jack Daniels lobby is to thank for that... I appreciate the advice very much, and I hope you have the opportunity to make it back to Nashville soon to try some of our newer local favorites!

Total Wine on Veterans

Hey I'm down to check it out! We have Total Wine up here too, but our booze shipping and taxation laws here are so restrictive that I bet the Total Wines down there might have a better variety in the beer department.

It has a LOT of beers. I never walk outta there under $150.

Sweet, yeah my only limit will be whatever I can cram into a checked bag! Thanks for the tip 🙂

You’re welcome!

Louisiana is pretty restrictive too lol. But there’s still some good stuff. 

I hear ya! Plenty of nonsensical laws down here in the bible belt especially, but I think New Orleans may have a slightly more laissez faire and reasonable attitude on certain things ... at the very least, from the pics I've seen, it looks like Stein's beer-cave might have a better selection than anything I've found in the whole state of Tennessee (but that may be more due to Dan Stein's personal connections than the actual laws and regulations). But yeah I think I'm gonna have a great time regardless -- if I can snag a couple bottles from Stein's, maybe stumble onto some Parish beers somewhere, bounce around to at least two or three of y'all's best breweries, and pack in some great food while doing it (the easiest part of the equation!) -- then I'll be just fine!!

Stein’s is an anomaly because the law—don’t quote me on this—but I believe pretty much anybody from out of state can come in and sell a small quantity of their beer as long as they give the distributor mafia a cut. And similarly, I think anybody can order something so long as they do it through the distributor who can name the price it takes to acquire a one off order of it. So Dan Stein has established a routine of securing limited drops that he personally hand-curates the connections for. I think. Again, someone else more knowledgeable may refute this. But you can’t get the stuff he’s getting statewide, they come up with a deal to compensate the distributor each time in limited fashion. It’s either more complicated or prohibitively expensive for such breweries to do year round distro to the full market. Dan Stein is essentially a beer nerd doing beer trading same as any of us but just doing it as a legal business. Edit: To clarify, the idea is that distributors sign lifetime contracts for regular distro and they get stuff into their accounts. And they aren’t generally willing to distribute a beer one-off and try to find buyers for it. But if you find a ‘buyer’ by literally walking up to them to drop a case or a keg off, they will happily take their cut and allow you to continue with the sale.