Total Wine & More - Columbia, SC

Free dedicated easy parking. Big selection. Almost everything is available as singles. Service at this location was great. Lots of local/regional and descent selection of national/international. I would go back.

I stop in here when I’m passing through Columbia. This store carries a few favorites (Aventinus, Rochefort 10) that I can no longer find locally. It’s a large store, and finding what you want can be a bit difficult. Sometimes a staff member greets you and offers help; sometimes you’re on your own. The layout, to me, makes things a little hard to find. They’ve tried to sort by country, but it isn’t done very well. It took me a few minutes to find what I wanted, and on my most recent trip, no one on staff ever approached me. Overall, a good selection. It’s nice enough, but has more of a supermarket look and feel. PS: the personnel on the liquor side are much more helpful.

Decent selection. Staff was non-existent. I hated how they had everything organized, all by beer type. Drove me nuts, couldn’t find what I was looking for. Decent place but every store in Columbia had essentially the same stuff.

Was not impressed. With only two major beverage suppliers in the Columbia area, it doesn’t matter where you go. They all have the same selection. You really have to watch the dates on the beer. Also, I asked basic questions, and got shoulder shrugs and puzzled looks by staff.

Very large selection of beer; the most in town as far as I know. Just make sure you don’t buy any skunky beer though as some of those imports sit on the shelf for quite sometime. I have gotten bit twice now by the bad beer bug. They also have a wide range of gsifters, growlers, mixers, etc.... Good store with a very nice selection.

This location has a good beer selection and a small growler station which is always nice. Friendly staff that will help you find what you are looking for. Very fairly price with special/discount racks of nice brews.

Typical for Total wine. Good that they sell singles but check those dates!

I never would have thought a wine store would have such a diverse and deep selection of both micro brews and international brews. I was pleasantly surprised. They have about 200 beers you can just buy single bottles of and make your own 6 pack. Prices vary with the singles from 1.29 up to 14.99 depending on style of beer. Recommended for anyone who needs some diversity in there beer selection. Rivals Greens as the best place to get beer from.

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.

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!.