Canopy Bottle & Gourmet Shoppe

Prices are truly outrageous. Plan on spending 20−30% more on whiskey here. The selection is great but the reason why is they are so overpriced people shop elsewhere.

Great selection however prices are outrageous. Makes you wonder how long some things have been sitting on the shelf. I could understand a couple bucks more than Ann Arbor places, but not $ 5-​$ 7 dollars more. This was the case for both beer and wine. Disappointed since this is closer to where I live

I love coming here because their selection is second to none. They don’t just carry a lot of unique domestic craft brews, they also carry numerous rare imports. They even carry a beer from a local brewery near where I used to live in England. I’m writing this review specifically because of some great customer service I received at the store recently. I purchased some beer here and the bottoms of the cans were slightly corroded and a couple of the beers were leaking. I called them up, and they let me come in right away return the beer and select new beer. They even gave me one of my favorite beers for free for my trouble. There is no way to run a business without occasionally having small issues like the one I experienced. It’s all about how a business owner reacts when an issue comes up. The reaction from the staff at Canopy was fantastic, and I will continue to be a loyal customer.

Nice selection but everything is overpriced and beer prices always change upward at the whim of the owner. Poor service. They don’t give you a receipt. My last trip to this store, took some empties back of ONLY specialty beers I had bought there (that cannot be returned elsewhere). The owner ripped me off when ringing the purchase, gave virtually no credit for my returns (I realized later after adding up the purchase and returns in my head since they gave no receipt). I used to patronize this store quite regularly, but will never buy anything from there ever again.

After dinner at a sushi restaurant in the same parking lot, I decided to walk here. My friend has never been here since it looks shady from the outside. But oh my, it’s a treasure to be discovered!
They have beer and other drinks you won’t find anywhere else in this country. I found German, Dutch and Belgian beers I enjoyed on my European vacation that I wouldn’t find anywhere else but online… and now, this place!
Duvel, Delirium, Franziskaner, Wells Banana Bread, Wells Sticky Toffee Pudding, moonshine, cherry beer, organic strawberry beer, etc. They have a huge selection of fantastic drinks. The people that work here were very helpful too. They helped me find what I was looking for and the one they didn’t have they were willing to order for me — too bad I was only visiting.

Selection: Very Good!
Prices: ahh not so great. hard to find beers your going to pay more for anyway and thats fine but compared to where i used to get beer in Lansing this place is expensive.
Service: This is really what made me not like it here. I had really good service from a younger worker (maybe 16 – 18 years old) the first 2 times i went here. However, any time i deal with the older adult workers it is really bad. on one occation i brought back a 6 pack for deposit and the (i think owner) got mad at me and gave me the «dont bring bottles back here its too much work for me» attitude. When i got home and looked at my receipt he dident even give me my $.60 for the deposits. I went back a couple months later for a bottle of whiskey and asked for advise. after telling him i had not had very many whiskeys but had been turned on to them when i went to scotland he pulled a $ 80 bottle off the shelf and said «buy this you will like it» (this being before i told him anything about what i had tried, liked or disliked) I told the man that i did not like smokey whiskey and wanted something cleaner and lighter to try. he put the bottle back and grabbed a $ 40 bottle and said you’ll like this. i replied «whats it like» at which point he took the bottle back and gave me another bottle. All the while he was giving me an attitude that felt like «listen here you punk just buy something and go get drunk» I am 27 years old, young yes, but have been trying whiskey since i was 22 and was really just looking for some advise from someone who had tried more then myself. instead I felt like I was working with a sleazy liqure store owner who really dident believe i wanted to enjoy some whiskey. needles to say i left and drove to another place to spend my $ 70 on a bottle of scotch.
Overall the selection is good, but the service sucked. Sad to say after 6 trips to this store I’ll gladly drive 10miles further to avoid going here.
Update: I went in again to return some empties that were purchased here in the past (some mine a few from friends who had brought beer to my house) I purchased a 6 pack with no price tag on it. The owner scans it and it comes up as 12.99 and tells me the total is $ 13 something (I assume tax) I ask about the bottle deposit and he says «yeah I got it». I reply «it rang up as 12.99 I had 20 bottles my total should be $ 11 something» he says «no the beer is more then that your total is $ 13.xx» I walk out pissed that this dude would really like to me and try to rip me off for $ 2 in deposit money. Hard to imagine. Lowering score from 2 to 1 star.

Great selection, friendly staff. The only reason I didn’t give them 5 stars is because it is soo crowded with inventory that’s its hard to find things and I’m always afraid I’m gonna bump Into a display. Basically if you need any type of liquor, beer, or wine and they don’t have it., it probably doesn’t exist.

It is like a candy store for grown-​ups. Every beer, every liquor, every flavor you can imagine, they have it all. Prices are fair & the employees are friendly.

I’m so sad– we thought we’d found a really great place. It’s huge, the prices are great, the selection is AMAZING, and, bonus, it doesn’t even feel sketchy :-P
But then the owner sold my husband a very old ceramic bottle of bourbon– still sealed, still in the box, quite heavy– for $ 50. When we got home that night, it was completely empty– it had evaporated, I assume. We’d expected a little evaporation, but it was bone dry. So we called the shop and the person who answered the phone said, yeah, come on back (we live about 40 minutes away) and we’ll give you store credit for it.
So the next day, husband hauls himself back up to the shop only to be told that «Nope, no can do, you bought it. I assumed you *knew* it would be completely empty. Duh.»
First of all: Dude, you sold us an empty bottle and didn’t think to say «Hey, you know, that bottle might be empty»? FWIW, those empty bottles go for twenty bucks less on ebay and they’re HONEST about the fact that they’re empty.
Second: Your employee approved a return over the phone and you’re not going to honor it after we drove all the way back out there?
Third: This one sale is more important to you than a new borderline alcoholic customer with expensive taste in whiskey? Bad decision, man. Being cool about that return probably would’ve made you hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars over the years– we were really impressed with the shop and planning to come back quite a bit.
Yes, I know, caveat emptor… my husband should’ve double checked, but the other similar decanters had liquid in them and it’s not exactly insane to assume that when you buy a liquor bottle at a liquor store, it’ll have liquor IN it. Refusing to take it back (after telling us you would) is just crappy customer service.
Which is a bummer, because it’s otherwise a very nice store. Oh well.

Need a weird kind of beer that is hard to find? I bet they got it! Need a weird bottle of liquor and you can’t find it anywhere? They probably have that too. Looking for a good wine? They have a huge selection! For such a small space they really pack it in!
They know their stuff too and can recommend something if you are not sure what you want. I could spend hours in this place just browsing. I definitely never leave with JUST what I came for.
Today I went in for a six pack of beer and after quickly perusing the cases and picking something boring for my husband I attempted to get out the door with nothing else. Then I spied cotton candy liquor and decided I had to try it. The owner recommended drinking it with tonic water and fetched me some which reminded me, I like Gin. So I perused those, chose a bottle and cut myself off.
By the way, cotton candy liquor and tonic is deeelish!
I highly recommend this place for your holiday alcohol needs. Especially because they have tons of those nifty gift-​with-​purchase box sets!