Total Wine and More - Columbia

8/20/2008 10:44:53 AM, wednesday, august 20, 2008
This is a typical Total wine. All the beer is available in singles and they seem to have most anything available to them by the distributor. This is nice, but in locations such as Columbia, the rotation is evidently very slow. I was weary of what I would buy. Some of the beers with born on dates were years old, many bottles were quite dusty. I was too afraid to purchase any of the Bear Republic bombers. I tried to stick to bottle conditioned beer on my purchase.

6/17/2008 9:26:53 PM, tuesday, june 17, 2008 [ Updated wednesday, june 18, 2008 ]
Visited here while on a business trip in June ’08. Excellent selection of regional singles - all reasonably priced - mostly under $2 - exactly what I was looking for. Picked up at least two dozen that I had not rated yet. Moderate selection of Belgians and a very small selection of West coast micros. Did see they had Bear Republic though - first time seen on east coast. Worth a visit if in the area if you are looking for some good rating fodder but not anything rare or out of the ordinary. Also - freshness appears to be a concern - a few singles appeared to be out of date. Friendly service - very interested RB - had not heard of it - could not believe I was buying so many singles at once - they asked if I got paid to rate beers!.

3/25/2008 12:13:05 PM, tuesday, march 25, 2008
Overall a good place, but the beer seems to always be in the overhead stock and not on the shelf. It used to be better, but a management change seems to have been a bad move.