The BottleShop

The Bottle Shop trades from a small unit at 4 Pen-y-lan Road in Roath, stocking several hundred bottled and canned beers and ciders alongside wines and spirits, with a section kept in chilled storage. Customers can drink on the premises for a corkage charge of fifty pence per bottle or can, taking a seat among the shelves rather than at a separate bar. The shop favours bottle-conditioned and can-conditioned beers over mainstream brands and keeps no cask ale on tap, leaning instead on the depth of its retail range. It has a sister branch near Penarth railway station, with both shops run as one independent operator rather than part of a wider chain.