If you're looking for upscale, you wouldn't be in a liquor store. Southside is your typical small town liquor store with a decent selection of mainstream stuff with a few little gems hidden around. You'll have to get past the smell of stale alcohol and wet cardboard that is the staple of any liquor store. You also may have to wade through a cloud of smoke from customers, employees and their friends taking smoke breaks outside per state law. For the most part they tend to be conscientious of where their smoke is going. They keep plenty of Three Floyds in stock and refrigerated as well as many imported beers and most of the domestics you would regularly see at a back yard bbq. They have a decent selection of liquor and some wine and a few no-so-obscure craft beers. The staff is generally friendly when I go in and I haven't had any issues with anyone being rude. Uninformed? Maybe. It depends on what you go in there expecting. If you're looking for a wine/beer/liquor snob then you may want to go elsewhere but if you want an opinion on what goes down the smoothest, tastes good, sells best, etc. then you can usually get at least a little bit of information from the staff. It's a little disheartening to see fellow Yelpers speaking so stereotypically and poorly of people based purely on their looks. It's not a surprise that the poor ratings so far have all been entered by people who thought they knew the staffs life stories based on what they thought they looked like. If you treat the people who work at Southside as human beings and equals then they will treat you the same. I have never had a bad experience in this store and that's more than I can say for at least one of the other liquor stores in town. read more

There's no shame, and there's a lot to like, about Southside's beer selection. They usually have something good, even if they don't hit their full potential with the regularity I'd like. And let's face it, they beat the pants off the competition -- with the possible (and very new) exception of the Malt Shoppe (see my other review). My only complaint is that the people who work here are sometimes ill-informed and even rude. When it comes to beer in Indiana, I've gotten used to the former. And I'm pretty tolerant of the latter in isolation. But ill-informed AND rude is a combination that's hard to swallow. Oh well, I still wish them well. Craft beer is hard enough to find as it is. read more

Deserves zero stars. I am 48 years old. My partner is 50. We went in to buy a bottle of wine; my partner didn't have her ID. The cashier told us (through a mouthful of some kind of food) "then you are already done, bye-bye". Really. My expectations were not very high, given the appearance of the place and the cashier, and I doubt we could have found much of anything worthwhile. However I was forced to adjust my assessment even further downward. The confirmation of the stereotypical inbred redneck was a bit humorous, actually. read more

VERY UPSET. My boyfriend bought me a bottle of barefoot wine which I don't like and had him go return it. The man refused to let us return an unopened bottle and started shouting he was harassing him! And told him to leave the store and that we were on camera. All over a 5 dollar bottle..absolutely ridiculous. rude and awful customer service DO NOT go here. read more

We are from Michigan and didn't come all the way to Crawfordsville to be treated this way. I will never come back to this store and I don't recommend anyone else coming here either. The lady working was completely rude the second we walked in. My husband and his friend went in first then myself and another friend of ours we were greeted with this awful woman working she started screaming you can't be in here unless you have an ID (well no shit it's a liquor store) she just assumed we didn't have an ID and treated us like trash. I have met some rude people in my life but she at the top of the list. read more

One of three competing liquor stores in Crawfordsville. I would say that this one has a better selection of liquor and spirits compared to the other two. Also a decent location surrounded by the hustle and bustle of other businesses. Decent variety of beers. Terrible selection of wine. read more

Best liquor store in Crawfordsville! Nuff said! The employees are always so helpful and nice when you need a smiley face to see they always have their liquors in stock and the beer is always in stock always read more

I have never been treated so poorly in a retail store in my life! I came in with my boyfriend to purchase a bottle of wine as a gift. A Trio of workers who seemed to depict stereotypical trailer living meth smoking rednecks of the sitcom world met us at the door. We are middle aged and were rudely grilled as to whether we had our id's with us. Understandably we were shocked, andI explained that I had left my wallet at home. II went to leave and she began screaming at both of us "and you are already done, bye-bye. We will not sell anything to either of you" we even more shocked, when she began screaming she was calling the law on us as we were exiting the store. If we had looked as poorly kept as the workers I may have understood their ire. However my boyfriend had a PHD and is a professor and I own a business, in other words, very much above their economic and social status thus further perplexing is as to their harsh behavior. In short, don't give this place your business. read more