If you're hosting a barbecue bash for 4th of July weekend, the Zagat Gourmet Shopping and Entertaining Guide has suggestions on where to stock up on some brew.

New York Beverage
515 Bruckner Boulevard
Melrose, Bronx
(718) 401-7700
www.newyorkbeverage.com

The guide says this beverage house "stocks 300 labels of beer including domestic, German, English and Mexican" and you can purchase it by the keg or by the case. Zagat adds "the drinkables" aren't limited to just alcohol, "more than half the company's business is water, soda and juice."

New York Beverage has yet to be rated in the guide, but Zagat says prices are moderate.

East Coast Beer Company
316 37th Street
Sunset Park, Brooklyn
(718) 788-8000

The survey says this "awesome" Sunset Park brew expert offers suds for all seasons and from all regions. Zagat adds here you can find a "huge selection" that's genuinely "international," plus, customers say the eclectic stock is reasonably priced.

East Coast Beer Company has also yet to be rated, but Zagat says prices are moderate.

- Cheryl Wills