With many craft beers you can take a look at the bottle against the store lighting and see if it looks cloudy or fluffy toward the bottom--don't buy it. I've seen that with other Bell's brews and learned the hard way when I bought a Brown with fluffy sediment (didn't notice until I got home) from a store out in rural northern Michigan and found it had turned to wet cardboard in a bottle. I haven't had a Founders beer in screw top bottles, ever, but I think you should go by your taste buds and maybe either try bringing it to the attention of the store owner or try taking your business elsewhere--hard in your part of the state, I know. Not much beats fresh beer and most everything beats old, stale or cardboard beer!
Gail