The Offie

This is my favourite place to buy booze in the whole of Brighton. The staff are always really cheery as opposed to some of the miserable shop owners around. They have a fantastic selection of lagers — some really nice and cheap Polish beers and some really interesting bottled bitters.
The wine selection isn’t as good as some of the specialist places but theres planty to please and they always have some great offers on the go.
Plenty of crisp and nut choices to soak up the beer too!

As these type of shops go, this is among the best. Firstly, it is clean and modern inside, meaning you don’t have to wonder what disease might be free with your six pack.
The main plus point would really be the quality of selection available; they sell all the typical drinks, along with an extended range of South American and Polish beers, Vodka’s and a variety of wines (probably not very nice ones, mind).
They also have a better than average set of offers/​multi buys. You can generally always find very good prices here, certainly better than most other off license’s.

To be honest I thought this place was alright, but I wouldn’t say it was amazing. Perhaps this is because I went into the Offie, just after I had gone into Red, White, Rose, with which I was really impressed by, and so felt a bit let down by the Offie, as it is a bit more of a standard off license.
The range of beer is not so far ranging and specialist, it’s much more of a deal orientated place, dealing mostly with cans of the usual Strongbow, Stella, Kronenbourg triumvirate. Of course it does have more specialist beers, such as Leffe and Asahi, but these are now the types of beers you can find in your local supermarket anyway.
However, to give credit to this place there was some good deals going, such as 70cl of Sambuca for £8.99 and 6 Peroni’s for £6 isn’t bad either.
Smaller selection of Wines and spirits that you might expect for a place called The Offie, but your likely to find what you want for a house party.

The Offie — what a thoughtful name for an off-​license. I mean, it’s what everyone calls them, but I have never seen it as the actual name before. That was a great start for me and things just got better.
So it’s a shop full to the brim with alcohol — one doth not protest. This however, is nothing new for an off-​license, but where The Offie succeeds in not being just another off-​license is the fact that they offer a great range of alcoholic beverages from all over the globe. This means that if you actually enjoy the taste of alcohol rather than simply using it for its ill-​gotten gains, you are able to revel in the great selection.
For me this meant Asahi the Japanese beer: not so rare, but nice to see nevertheless. My Canadian friend was very shocked to see Canadian ginger beer and lagers that he’d actually travelled all the way to London to get. And my other friend who introduced us to The Offie was there for the Lebanese beers.
If you’re an astute alcohol consumer, or you’re missing a taste from home, check out The Offie. You might find something old, something new, something hopefully not borrowed, but maybe something blue!