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The Beer Depot
Categories: Food Beer, Wine & Spirits Food Convenience Stores Beer, Wine & Spirits, Convenience Stores [Edit]
114 E William StAnn Arbor, MI 48113
(734) 623-4430
- Price Range:
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$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Garage, Street, Private Lot
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
About This Business:
We're not your "typical pharmacy." Along with your pharmacy and drugstore needs we offer products in food, wine, gifts, toys, and medical products. We… read more »
14 reviews for The Beer Depot
Review Highlights
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"Very good beer selection." In 4 reviews -
"A good one-stop shop for all of your beer, wine, and liquor..." In 3 reviews -
"Also well stocked with liquor and wine as well." In 6 reviews
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14 reviews in English
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Review from Kat F.
5/27/2009 1 photo
If you need cheap cardamom this is the place to get it. I was a tagalong with some beer-purchasing friends and while I was killing time in the aisles I came across a section devoted to herbs and spices to be used for flavouring beer and wine.
Trust me when I say you cannot find cardamom this cheap anywhere else - it was like $2.50 or something for a large pouch of shelled, uncrushed seeds. Usually buying cardamom at the grocery store is three or four times as expensive. Scoop it up while you can and start making curries and sauces!
My favourite way to use cardamom is with sweet potatoes - I cut them in rounds, drizzle them with honey, a bit of garlic and freshly grated ginger, cardamom, salt and pepper. Then bake for 22-25 minutes at 400º!Listed in: The Most Random Things I've…
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Review from Walter P.
12/28/2008
By the power of Grey Skull.... THEY HAVE EVERYTHING..... including a drive through around the back!
* sheds tear of happiness and jealousy *Listed in: Detroit Trip 2008
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Review from Clarence C.
San Lorenzo, CA
4/4/2008 3 photos
A good selection of beer and wine, if you don't want to have to decide between the dozen or so varieties that Kroger is willing to keep in the cooler.
The store also sells supplies for making your own, from extra bottlecaps, all the way up to complete brewing kits, with all the buckets and the malt for your first batch.
For a long time, this was the only drive-through beer store in town, but the drive-through was finally closed up a few years ago. -
Review from mumme y.
Santa Monica, CA
12/31/2008
Came here the other day to pick up beer making supplies. They are well stocked and give demos how every few weeks.
Very good beer selection. If you're looking for something you won't find at Whole Foods or Hiller's go here.
Also well stocked with liquor and wine as well.
Little place with a lot in it.
Oh, the parking sucks., but there's a garage and public lot nearby -
Review from Andrea B.
Ann Arbor, MI
10/7/2009
(I'd actually give them 3 1/2 stars, beyond A-Ok.)
BOOOOOOOOZE!
I was happy to find the selection packed into this tiny little store. I was told that they once did, in fact, have a drive through, which I am still astounded by to this day that it ever existed. (I believe their sign still says drive through).
Anyway...SELECTION
WINES & BEER
I did think they had a few key choices for wine in a very small space. Things like a 5-year old California Shiraz/Merlot for $8.99. Also, a rose prosecco for less than $10 as well. You'll find lots of interesting wines and microbrews packed into a little space, and at prices to please.
HARD BOOOOOOOZE
Yes, they have a floor to ceiling wall of hard liquor that isn't missing a beat. Not much more I can say about that.
CAN I GET CRISTAL?
yes, they have champagne and sparkling wine offerings.
OVERALL
I'd say for one-stop shopping, I actually like Beer Depot a smidge better than Main St. Party Store. Also, since Bella Vino has closed, you won't be able to find as many special beers in once place. For whatever you need, Beer Depot should have it and it's good to know that they sell condoms to boot right alongside the booze. Don't drink and have unprotected sex people! Be safe. (erm...maybe skip that last one altogether kids) :-D -
Review from Lisa W.
Flint, MI
6/22/2008
I lived a block away from this place. Their prices were steeper than Village Corner, but the convenience was what did it for me. Sometimes, you need liquor in T minus five minutes. It's a one stop party -- you've got your cases, your fifths, racks and racks of wine, chips, cigarettes, mixers.
They sell Nat Sherman's and I love them for it. It was the first place I ever saw the Nat Sherman Naturals -- but the fatter cigarettes. They also have the good LAN Rioja wine that I'd brown bag to parties and be a hit!
The outside is a great photo-op. How can you resist a big "Drive Thru" sign by the words "Beer Depot"? -
Review from Alex Z.
Lancaster, PA
10/12/2008
This place is a gem. It looks like a tiny corner convenience/liquor store, and I suppose it is this--but it's also a repository for a vast array of artisan beers from around the world, carrying everything from the best of the seasonal Great Lakes brews to Trappist ales to American craft brews from many of the major breweries. This place seems to stock pretty good stuff. It's selection is great, but not absolutely exhaustive, but it seems to have a staff that picks out good stuff.
Prices are pretty reasonable given the convenience: this isn't the cheapest place to get beer but it doesn't gouge you either: you're paying for the variety and convenience.
The people who work here are also very friendly and knowledgeable and very willing to help you out if you ask them questions.
I love this place, and it makes me wish I lived right around the corner. If you do, lucky you! :-) -
Review from Michael C.
Detroit, MI
5/31/2008
As soon as one of us were able to drive, we ventured to Ann Arbor, got lost, and ventured some more for the sole purpose of finding this store.
And it's not that we could even drink, but that really wasn't the point!
Years later and having come of age, going back to the Beer Depot was a blessing.
It was here that I first tried my first micro-brew. It was here that I first discovered Delirium, my most favorite beer on the planet. For that, they get full stars.
They stack up really well against other purveyors of micro-brews and wine. Even with the space limitations, they still have such a large selection that I often found myself looking at twenty labels with names that I'd never heard of. That's scary and exciting at the same time.
If you need something exotic in the Ann Arbor area, this is THE place to look for it. -
Review from Katy W.
Chicago, IL
6/8/2007
Goddamn they've stuffed a lot of beer and wine in a little shop. Good selection of craft beer, adequate liquor selection, many wines from which to choose. In terms of your other options, better than Village Corner for beer, but Village Corner takes the cake for wine. Probably about the same selection of macro beer & liquor as every other party store. A good choice if you are downtown, want good beer, and don't want to get in your car to get it. Prices are a bit higher than you'll find elsewhere, but not gougingly so.
On the staff - they're adequately courteous in their own townie way. It's a unique characteristic that you must know to appreciate. However, I wouldn't go here looking for wine (or beer, for that matter) selection advice.
Bonus, they have home brewing supplies. -
Review from Corinne U.
Ann Arbor, MI
3/6/2011
A good one-stop shop for all of your beer, wine, and liquor needs. They definitely don't have the cheapest prices around, but as it is the closest establishment to my house that sells things, I am willing to pay a few more bucks than brush the snow off of my car and slide around in the ice to drive to Kroger or Meijer to buy my booze. If you are willing to be adventurous, they usually have some unknown/out-of-date beers and wines for really cheap. If you aren't so inclined, than you can get anything from Bud Lite to Dogfish Head 90 minute IPA. Just watch out for all of the homeless people taking advantage of their can return. It can get interesting in the Deep.
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Review from Sam S.
San Francisco, CA
5/11/2007
I approached Saturday night with a great deal of apprehension, for I had been invited to a Cinco De Mayo party at Coco C.'s apartment. As she is the self-proclaimed "coolest person in Ann Arbor" (ha), I had to represent. While cyberstalking her in the afternoon, I also realized she had become Elite. Fuck. My trepidation mounts.
I decide to get some tact and actually bring something, besides my winning personality. Coco would definitely recognize Charles Shaw, so I popped in here and immediately went to the boxed wine section. "Too W.T.," I thought. I took a little step to the left and saw some "military grade" tequila. $6.99. "Perfect," I said aloud, "I bet this is what our boys in Iraq are drinking."
The checkout girl is eating a Twix and acts surly to my friendliness. She looks at my purchase disapprovingly. After paying, I didn't even ask for a bag---I didn't want her to actually WORK---I just stuffed it in my jacket pocket and bounced.
In the end, I forgot the tequila in my jacket, which I had left at home. It's the thought that counts, right? At one point in the evening, Coco began manically laughing and explaining her plan for total Yelp domination. Be on the lookout. -
Review from Marcus K.
San Rafael, CA
12/26/2009
Looks like they have a good selection of beer. But..we were looking for wine. They have about two racks and among them we found two excellent pinots. Prices are a bit higher than what I'm used to in California but hey, I guess you have to pay for shipping. Best part for me was that I was carded. Now that made my day especially since I was born in 66.
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Review from K M.
San Francisco, CA
12/22/2007
This is the only place in the world I have found a bottle of Westvleteren. Too bad they weren't terribly excited about that.
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Review from Joseph R.
Rawsonville, MI
2/28/2009
They have a good selection of beer, but their brewing supplies are junk and the service was awful. With brewing supply places going out of business left and right they are one of the few left, but I don't recommend them except as a last resort. My GF bought a brewing thermometer and supplies for a quick batch and we had to go back and swap the thermometer because it was broken. We go home, brew a batch and the replacement breaks in the brew leaving broken glass everywhere. Going back again they treated us like crap, and would not replace the supplies, even after we looked at their remaining thermometers and found several other cracked and broken ones. They seemed uncaring and planned to sell the defective merchandise to the next sucker. Avoid these junk peddlers.
