It depends on how you will use it and where it will be. Currently my beverage fridge is my old GE fridge out in the storage room in our garage. For the new house I will have a wine bar/beverage center off the kitchen facing the living/dining area. I will be putting in a Summit unit that also has a small internal freezer. I will store a few bottles of wine in it, some beer, some soft drinks, creamer for the coffee, etc. I want the small freezer because I have a few wine carriers that get stored frozen plus I make my own specialty ice cubes for themed cocktail gatherings. This unit has shelves in the door as well because I will want to keep a few bottles of opened things in there and laying them down concerns me, no matter how well you think you've sealed a bottle it still may leak.

If yours will be for kids drinks, juice boxes, bottled water, soda and in the kitchen then get something versatile that can store a bunch of shapes and sizes. I'd only have a glass door if it was strictly a wine cooler as it's hard to make stacked wine look messy. I love the look of the glass door beverage centers, but who will honestly keep theirs like that? It's like the show house with 30 bottles of pellegrino in the glass door pantry, looks nice but I know mine will have mismatched cereal boxes and cans facing backwards all over the place!

I've had a Danby wine cooler in my dining room for years and it is super reliable, I have a summit under counter fridge in my basement and that has been reliable as well.

I also have an Electrolux beverage fridge. When we did the remodel of our kitchen in 2009 in our old house, I went with this. Worked fine and was less expensive than many of the others, so we went with the same in our new build home. We keep wine on the bottom angled wire shelf, beer and water on the top, and soda in the middle. Love not having to use space in our main fridge (which is counter depth) for these items and also having it located in a space more accessible to guests.

We have a Danby beverage center behind our bar for water, soda, wine, juice. We have beer on tap (summit) and that's been great. The Danby is pretty nice size. A board did go up on the Danby after 6 years which we are having fixed. $250 to fix. $900 -$1000 to replace. Hopefully the repair keeps it running another 5 years or so :)

Thank you for your replies. I will check out the ones you mentioned. :) For my use it will be juices and milk. also probably any leftover food that doesn't fit in reg frig.

We won't get a glass one. aside from the fact that it will never be a pretty sight, our budget calls for a smallish affair with removable shelves. :) DH would love a freezer to throw a few bottles of water in for work, but it probably won't happen due to that pesky budget thing. He hates trying to find room in our other freezers. They're always full of frozen prepared meals, all manner of frozen food and pet food etc.

DH and I can't drink liquor, so no wine here.:( :( I love wine. Did I say I love and miss having a nice glass of red or white wine. There are so many nice wines in budget these days... Migraines and hypoglycemia look what you've done to meeee!

Can you not just get a freezer top inexpensive refrig and put it in the basement or somewhere other than the kitchen? Much cheaper and more versatile.

For me, having a beverage fridge will free up a big space in the regular fridge. Eliminating the need to leave the kitchen to get something as often as I do now. I will still have a chest freezer in the basement I'm sure.

Sub-Zero beverage fridge. Very happy with it!