in all seriousness, unless you're talking about a first release of an abduction variant, they are not at all hard to obtain and quality locals should land any of them $4$. even a first release of a brand new variant shouldn't be *that* hard. there was a lot of hype around the original release of raspberry truffle because it was much more limited, but this is no longer the case since PW upgraded to their bigger brewhouse (and they have, as well, since remade raspberry).
I would say their not that hard to find in the city, but in the suburbs their not the easiest to find. There's only about 50 liquor stores outside the city that carry Pipeworks and not all of them get the abductions. The stores that do, have a one bottle limit.
one bottle limit at most city stores too, at least on first releases. even so, it's not *that* hard to get your hands on a bottle or two, at least not to the degree that it wouldn't just trade for quality locals (maybe something on the level of heady). they're remade on the regular too - the only one that hasn't been remade yet was cherry and that's only because it was pretty damn recent.
I agree. I've got every variant with ease, including the cherry truffle when it was first released, by ordering them online.