Festival Foods - Fond du Lac

First rating of this place in over 9 years and its probably still the best beer store in FdL, which is a comparative beer wasteland for cities of its size in this state. Typical Festival experience. Big, bright, separate liquor section. 20 feet of BYO singles. Tiered pricing. Good selection. Worthy stopping by if you're nearby.

Typical grocery style set. Has a lot of potential due to the size, but the majority of selections are local/mainstream. A couple of hidden gems such as HoppinFrog and barrel aged Central Waters/Tyranena brews, but mostly just a tickfest. Prices are fairly reasonable. EDIT: Extremely slow and uninformed when it comes to special orders. I even provided the distributor and still took longer than a week for an actual answer. Overall it has lots of potential but falls short in all areas.

General grocery liquor store. Ok selection and a mix your own section. Poor turnover. Staff helpful and willing to do special orders.

Best grocery store beer selection in town - with all that sterile grocery store feeling. Decent Wisconsin microbrew selection, Pick-6 is nice, not too overpriced (got me through funky pumpkin ales without having to buy full 6 of each). Wandered out with a cartfull of IPA’s before Christmas and the manager on duty complimented my selections.

About what expected. Variety 6 is always a plus, but when it’s mainly Leinies, I’ll pass. Did have Founders, Flying Dog, and Dogfish Head, and bombers of Unibroue, but overall kinda sucked.

Festival Foods is a grocery store first and foremost, but has a nice beer selection in the liquor department. They have a nice selection of bottles for Build Your Own Sixer construction. Central Waters, Bells, Sierra Nevada, Point, Breckinridge, and more. They also have a nice selection of larger bottles of German and Japanese beers available. Their cooler is filled with harder-to-find six packs, particularly in this region of the state. Festival also does nice business in offering gift/holiday sets of beers from various breweries year-round. Not a true beer store, but light years better than your average grocery store for selection and volume.