Twin Cities Bottle Hunt - 2020

Do Great Lakes Oktoberfest and/or Victory Festbier make it to the Twin Cities?

 

Total Wine in Woodbury had it at $10/bottle on Saturday.

Edit: not positive of the year, assumed it was 2020

 

I know I've seen Great Lakes in the past. A quick look at Total Wine's website says it's in stock at Bloomington, so should be available other places.

 

Summit Dark Infusion to be released this year exclusively in variety packs. Well that fucking sucks.

https://www.summitbrewing.com/dark-...UE8eX6SFSXvWJSJSO6UUKYA4ItLAJAQNLX-WmruDorPKw

 

I bought one of those variety packs today. Contains Saga, EPA, Keller Pils, and Dark Infusion. I will drink all those beers so it was an easy purchase. There is a different variety pack as well that contains a couple different beers.

 

Correction on my previous post. It contains Great Northern Porter and not EPA.

 

Bells Double 2hearted in stores this week with a nice PKG date of 08/26.

 

Even better. Sounds like a decent variety pack & looking forward to grabbing a couple!
Thanks for the post!

 

Forager Brewery lottery for one of their 5th Anniversary bottle packages is live today, for those with plenty of money to spend on big bottles.

 

I was in Rochester today and I did not even stop at Forager because I was so disappointed in the beer the last couple of visits. I went to LTS and Thesis instead, it did not leave me feeling enthused about the beer in Rochester. Stopped in Northfield and the area on my way back home. The beer was much better.

 

ISO best spots to build your own 6 pack. Trying to collect bottle caps for a MN state bottle cap holder. Have pretty much exhausted Minnetonka Total Wine. Any insight would be appreciated! Trying to get all unique brewery caps

 

Wine Thief/Ale Jail in St. Paul has a decent selection of singles.

 

• Zipps
• Ombibulous
• France 44
• South Lyndale Liquors

 

I wouldn't consider F44 to be a very good build your own 6 pack place. Their singles section is small and outside of their walk-in cooler. IDK about the others you listed.

 

France 44 recently eliminated a large portion of their singles selection.

Lunds & Byerly's Liquor Stores have decent singles selections as well, they used to do $5 make your-own-6-packs or something like that but I think that was discontinued. Hyvee liquor stores isn't bad for singles either and they are usually all in coolers, which is nice for stuff that might sit for a while.

 

Go to Ombibulous .. MPLS on Hennepin Ave.They only sell MN brewed beers and single Out any one of them.

 

Anyone seen the Modist/DM collab Oak Aged Pilsner? Or have had it? Sounds so good with the current weather

 

I have been absent for awhile, but I just saw a row of 4 packs of 2019 Founders CBS at the Northtown (Blaine) MGM...$23 a whack. I thought that beer was tough to get...maybe not anymore? Should I have scored 1, or does that beer fade like a coffee-stout would?

 

Elevated- Hiawatha had 6 or so cases stacked in the front area today.

 

Hy-Vee Brooklyn Park has some.