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Valentine's Day Beer
Michigan Beer Recommendations, Beer In Cans
It's Valentine's Day, and what better gift to surprise your loved one than with some delicious craft brew, or with mead! We're featuring chocolate & fruit beers this month, and mead — a great idea for your sweetheart!
Chocolate Beer, Fruit Beer, & Mead
Arcadia Brewing Cocoa Loco Stout
Arcadia Brewing Cocoa Loco Stout

A truly one-of-a-kind brew, we like to call this our Triple Chocolate Milk Stout. A combination of three different chocolate malts, cocoa nibs and 63% cacao bittersweet chocolate make this a sinfully delicious brew. The addition of lactose lends the beer a creamy quality—not unlike a milkshake—while the Blackstrap Molasses adds rich, burnt, syrupy flavors. Flavors of baker's chocolate and espresso dominate, while rich malty flavors and a subtle kiss of hops add nice balance.

This is a BIG beer. True to our original vision, we have taken a traditional style and turned it on its head. Delicious on its own, Cocoa Loco is also brilliant with many foods, or as a digestif.

Recommended Foods: Brie, Cherry Cheesecake, Seared Ahi Tuna, Vanilla Ice Cream, Berry Pies

7% ABV.

PRICE:
regular $9.99,
SALE $8.99
4-pack + tax & deposit

Liefmans Fruitesse
Liefmans Fruitesse

Liefmans Fruitesse is a unique, fresh beer blend—maturing for 18 months on cherries in the Liefmans cellars—which is artfully blended with natural juces of cherry, bilberry, elderberry, strawberry, and rasberry.

The result is a fruity pleasantly sweet, sparkling and refreshing beer with a soft foam head.

4.2%ABV. Belgium.

PRICE:
regular $9.99,
SALE $8.99
750 ml + tax & deposit

Abita Party Pack
Abita "Party Pack"

It's Mardi Gras! Celebrate with a mixed 12-pack of beers from Louisiana's own brewery, Abita. Inside you'll find 2 bottles each of Amber lager, Turbodog brown ale, Jockamo IPA, Purple Haze raspberry wheat, Restoration gold, and a seasonal.

Louisiana.

PRICE:
regular $17.49,
SALE $15.99
12-pack + tax & deposit

Michigan Beer of the Month
B. Nektar "Zombie Killer" Cherry Cyser
B. Nektar "Zombie Killer" Cherry Cyser

Zombie Killer Cherry Cyser is made with Michigan tart cherry juice, apple cider and star thistle honey. Lightly carbonated, it is sweet but balances nicely with the tart cherries. Be careful...it is extremely addicting and refreshing. Serve cold ... Zombies hate the cold!

6% ABV. Ferndale, Michigan.

PRICE: regular $8.99, SALE $7.99
16.9 oz bottle + tax & deposit

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About the Beer Department

PHILOSOPHY / Merchant's Beer Department continually strives to bring to all our customers the finest beer selection available in Michigan. We are educated, knowledgeable, nice and will assist you with any purchase. Our beer selection is: Vast, Organized, Fresh and up to date with the newest products, and Competitively priced with plenty of beers on sale.

NEW / Our beer department is always expanding. When you visit us, be sure to look for these new changes: Imported beers arranged alphabetically by country, ciders and meads in the new aisle, gluten-free and organic beers in the new aisle, and an expanded single bottle section in the new aisle.

BUILD YOUR OWN 6-PACK / In addition to cases and 6-packs, the department also hosts a great selection of bottles priced for individual sale. Come and browse through our huge wall of singles and build your own 4-pack or 6-pack.

MICHIGAN PROUD / We are pleased to support The Michigan Brewers Guild and feature a “Michigan Beer of the Month."

Contact the Beer Department: beer@merchantsfinewine.com

Beer Manager,
Certified Cicerone™ Annette May

Annette MayThere are over 80 different beer styles. Annette has had them all and can tell you something unique about every one. Annette became the first woman Certified Cicerone™, (pronounced sis-uh-rohn ) early in 2009. This certification means she has proven expertise in selecting, pairing, storing and serving today's wide range of beers.
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Contact Annette: beer@merchantsfinewine.com

New Arrivals

MICHIGAN
Atwater Purple Gang Pilsner
Bell's Hopslam (while supplies last)
Bell's Consecrator Doppelbock (while supplies last)
Dark Horse Fore Stout (Returns)
Kuhnhenn "9" Belgian strong (while supplies last)
New Holland Night Tripper 2012 Imperial Stout (Returns)
New Holland Blue Sunday 2012
New Holland Envious 2012
Short's Pontius Road Pilsener

USA
Abita Mardi Gras Bock (Returns) (LA)
Anchor Bock (Returns) (CA)
Anchor Breckle's Brown ale (CA)
Great Lakes Conway Irish Ale (Returns) (OH)
Lakefront Brewing Big Easy Imperial Maibock (WI)
Magic Hat Vinyl (Returns) (VT)
Magic Hat Spring Fever Mixed 12pk (VT)
Samuel Adams Alpine Spring (MA)
Samuel Adams Brewmaster Selection mixed 12pk (MA)
Samuel Adams Whitewater IPA
Shiner Spring Dortmunder (Returns) (TX)
Sierra Nevada Ruthless Rye (CA)

IMPORTS
Atomium Belgian ale (Belgium)
Chapeau Banana lambic (Belgium)
Lindemans Faro Lambic
Newcastle Founder's Ale (England)

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