| Short's Brewing Company: Brews |
| 2007 Anniversary Ales |
 Part 1: Bourbon triple IPA - $10 12oz. bottle (sit down for this one) 15%-ish ABVPart Duex: Original double IPA - $7 9% ABV Part Duex: Bourbon dry hop double IPA - $8 9%ABV Part Duex: Bourbon grapefruit double IPA - $8 9%ABV These are limited quantities; get them while you can! |
| Growlers |
 Growlers are available to fill of most everything on tap. Cost for the jug is $4 and anywhere from $8 to $15 to fill, depending on the beer. |
| Keg Beer |
| Keg beer is available for those special events and gatherings. We typically require a 24-hour notice for keg orders, but we'll do our best to accomodate your needs if we have a brewer and the beer you want in the house. Here is a list of pricing and keg volume information. |
| Annual Beers |
| Huma-Lupa-Licious IPA A complex malt and hop theme park in your mouth  Named after the hop flower Humulus Lupulus, this best selling India pale ale style beer has enormous amounts of hops which really seems like a punch in the face. Hop flowers from the numerous strains used in this recipe render a delicious bitter taste and enticing citrus aroma. Flavors from a hearty malt bill meld with the hops to balance this ale and provide a ridiculous urge to sample more. |
| Pandemonium Pale Ale Behold the bitter hysteria  Our classic American pale ale lends its copper color to the rich specialty grains. This craft ale is balanced with four kettle hop additions to a near IPA quality. It is one of the few beers we finish through whole leaf hops lending a nice fresh earthy aroma and flavor. |
| The Village Reserve The hearth of the community  This beer is fermented from wort extracted from fully modified two-row pale malt, which results in its beautiful golden color. This beer is aggressively hopped, which supports a medium body and allows the hop flavor and aroma to become more prominent throughout the beer. Village Reserve is uniquely its own due to its exclusive yeast strain. A great balance of malt and hops make it our version of good ol’ fashioned beer. |
| The Bellaire Brown The hub of the village  A brown ale so rich, it’s hardly classifiable as brown. It’s born of copious amounts of hearty pale ale malt, and several specialty selections which make it a dark, rich and delicious masterpiece. Very light hop additions allow the malty sweetness and flavor complexity to be most protuberant. A beer so user friendly, we dub this the “gateway” beer. |
| The Soft Parade Liquified laughter from fruit filled disaster  A fermented potion we call fruit rye ale. This gourmet specialty is engineered of toasted rye flakes and two row malted barley. These ingredients make a beer that we ferment with freshly pureed strawberries, blueberries, raspberries and blackberries. The result is a sweet effervescent fruit delicacy most notable for its alluring color and drink ability. |
| Pontius Road Pilsner Quality lies just off the beaten path.  A true American Pilsner style beer. Light blond in color, and balanced with heavy handfuls of American hops. This medium bodied lager is effervescent making is crispy and refreshing. A creamy white head captures the escaping carbonation, which releases pleasant hoppy aromatics resulting in extreme satisfaction. |
| The Local's Light Beer Your neighbor knows were it's at.  Our lightest and yet very, very tasty. With a domestic lager quality about it, this beer still stands alone as a well crafted micro lager. Light hops and simple malts provide easy session ability for the beginner microbrew consumer. The “training wheel beer.” |
| The Chocolate Wheat Humble comfort in every sip  Wheat porter ale brewed with chocolate malt, wheat malt and carefully chosen specialty grains providing a rich, black beer with subtle hoppiness and rich malt tones. This beer is big bodied and finishes smooth leaving flavors of roasted caramel, coffee and chocolate. |
| Autumn Ale Lore of the season captured in ale  Our London style Extra Special Bitter (ESB) is one true to style. It’s a medium amber color with perfectly balanced malt character fused with the harmony of soft fruity esters and pleasant hops on the nose. This masterpiece finishes with lingering hop character and thorough user friendly delight. |
| The Magician The eloquent, swift and skillful master who makes things happen  A lustrous dark red London ale. Rich malt complexities lending notes of toasted caramel, raisins, toffee, and slight roast chocolate. Very light hop additions let the true malt characters promenade throughout the tasting enjoyment this beer offers. It’s a new member of our beer family and has gone over so well, we’re making it year round. |
| Seasonal Offerings |
| Anniversary Ale (spring) This beer is typically a big IPA or strong double Red ale. Large amounts of hops and malt engineered differently every year. |
| Nicie Spicie (summer) A gentle mixture of elegance and redolence for any occasion  Northern Michigan spiced wheat ale. A 50% mixture of premium two-row malted barley and malted white wheat makes this gorgeous golden beer balanced to support bold spiciness. This ale is loaded with fresh citrus zest, coriander, and a four pepper blend. So extremely satisfying you would think it was the finest beer ever made! |
The Golden Rule (?) |
Rich’s RIPA |
Noble Chaos (fall) |
| Cup A Joe Coffee Creme Stout (winter) The perfect morning night capper  Deep aromatics of malt, sweet espresso and roasted cocoa. Flavor is robust with big malt character covered with cream and coffee. It’s everyone’s favorite coffee stout. |
| Funkin Punkin (fall) Fall nectar wetting the palates of patrons profusely  A seasonal blend of pumpkin, spices, and carefully formulated ale. Notably aromatic of pumpkin pie, and the color of a light pastel brown, this brew is especially true of ale and comfortably consumable. Brewed with real pumpkin and real spice, it’s still very much a beer, but beautifully engineered with spice, pumpkin and beer balance. |
| Black Cherry Porter (summer) Deep fruit laced mystery, fringing on nothing more than excellence  One of the biggest beers offered. It’s brewed as soon as the sweet black cherries are ripe. The formula consists of several different malts, lending deep opaque color with purple lace from the fresh fruit it’s fermented with. Nearly 4 lbs. of fresh sweet black cherries go into each gallon of brew. A flavor of deep lustrous malt complexity and fullness, yet smooth and soft hints of toasted chocolate and a pleasurable black cherry flavors. |
| Sustenance Black Beer (spring) For when you're hungry and thirsty  Our dark American lager beer we brew in the spring time. Since released, this beer has gained an underground following. Black is the beer, but soft and sweet on the palate. Rich flavor stems from roasted and dark caramel grains. Sustenance is a very delightful and easy drinking lager with strong emphasis on the balanced malt profile. |
| Über Goober Oatmeal Stout (winter) Peanut Oatmeal Stout  A prominent chocolate nuttiness on the nose with a big, chewy, full flavor on the palate. Creamy oatmeal fused with peanut puree compliments rich caramel and roasted malts. It’s uniquely satisfying and very popular. |
| Beach Wheat (summer) Pushing the envelope of fermented innovation Classic wheat beer brewed by Americans in America using a German wheat yeast. 50% of the grain used is malted wheat designating it as a true “wheat” beer. This ale is also known as Hefeweizen. It’s golden in color and light and clean with esters of banana and clove compliments of its Bavarian DNA. A beer so popular and easy drinking, it made it on this list. |
| Snow Wheat (winter) Pushing the envelope of fermented innovation  The Beach wheat is so popular, sometimes we’ll make it in the winter if we have an open tank and re-name it for the winter pub goers. |
| Brand New Beers |
| Banannas and Blow Créme Ale This beer is currently still going through maturation. We made a simple batch of light lager and brewed it with 100 lbs. of cocoa (1/2 lb. /gal.) and fermented it accordingly. Then we made a simple golden wheat ale and fermented it with 440 lbs of bananas (2lbs. /gal.). Blending the Cocoa lager and banana ale will make us the Bananas and Blow Crème Ale. We’re looking forward to the end result and we’ll keep you posted. |
| Beers of the past we may some day re-visit |
| Smugglin' Plumbs Sweet Stout Sweet perfume of rich roast and plumb, cast through hearty malted complexity, finishing slightly sweet and dry. .75 lbs. plumb per gallon. 5.8% ABV |
| Rich's Rye IPA ICE We took a batch of Rich’s RIPA and froze it to remove 30% of the water. The result is intense. Try this beer if you get the chance, you never know when the next batch will come out, if ever! |
| Smoked Apple Ale Pushing the envelope of fermented innovation  Light amber ale infused with seven bushels of apple wood smoked apples. An initial light toasted maltiness finishing strong of apples and smoke. |
The Good Samaritan |
The Curl Imperial Pilsner |
The Mystery Stout |
| The Imperial Beer Series of 2007 |
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 Aorta Ale • Modest essential benevolence of humanity • Beer Type: Double Red Ale • $15.50 |
 Publican Porter • Rooted from the original purveyor of integral ale • Beer Type: Imperial London Porter • $16.00 |
 Imperial Soft Parade • Sexy penetrable fruit intensity for the experienced and novice • Beer Type: High Gravity Ale fermented with blueberries, strawberries and blackberries • $19.00 |
 Abnormal Genius • Succulent magic delivered from nature’s most phenomenal sweetener • Beer Type: High gravity golden Ale fermented with sunflower seeds and Earthwork honey • See the making of the Abnormal Genius • $19.50 |
 The Woodmaster • The auspicious blueprint of savory fermented delight extracted by formidable humans of the world • Beer Type: High Gravity Brown ale fermented with Earthwork maple syrup and toasted pecans • See the making of The Woodmaster • $17.00 |
 Peaches & Crème • Cream softness fused with the delicacy of prunus persica • Beer Type: High Gravity Golden Ale brewed with lactose and fresh peaches • $22.50 |
 Bloody Beer • The intrinsic celebration of beer and the giant red berry cloaked within piper nigrum, apium graveolens dulce, armoracia rusticana, and anethum graveolens • Beer Type: Specialty Beer fermented with Roma tomatoes and spiced with tellicherry peppercorns, celery seed, fresh horseradish and dill • See the making of the Bloody Beer • $16.50 |
 The Good Feller  • A noble spirit of the sacred humulus lupulus governing all the good of what is bitter • Beer Type: Imperial IPA • $15.50 |
 Ginger in the Rye • A most distinguished effervescent potable of total consciousness • Beer Type: High Gravity Rye Ale fermented with Weizen yeast and aged on fresh ginger • $14.50 |
 Black Licorice Lager • A sagacious formula of inherent elements within a beautiful cold fermented darkness • Beer Type: High Gravity American Dark Lager aged on anise seed, Madagascar Bourbon vanilla beans and fresh chocolate mint leaves • $16.00 |
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 Imperial Carob Stout • A cordial journey of sumptuous rich intricacy • Beer Type: Imperial Stout brewed with carob • See the making of the Carob Imperial Stout • $15.00 |
An organic tribute to an English style India Pale Ale. We use 100% organic 2-row malted barley, enormous doses of hops, pure English ale yeast and water straight from the earth. This beer is light tasting with the malt and hops melding beautifully, for a clean easily drinkable session brew. Hops are light, but ever present and loaded with an earthy perfume with hop oils and resins that intrigue the palette. Its designed to provide ultimate satisfaction to someone who really appreciates it. 
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This is a beer brewed to benefit the local school system. It’s also limited run bottle production. Bottles will be auctioned to raise money for the CIS (Communities in Schools) organization. It’s a Belgian amber style fermented with honey and apple cider.
Brewed with 40% more ingredients to bump any ordinary pilsner to an imperial level. We hop the kettle four times, using a good amount of Amarillo hops to balance the malty sweetness from the pilsen malt and lots of flaked maze. At 7.5% ABV and 50 Bittering Units, this beer is still very quaffable and packed full of flavor thanks to the help of our house American lager yeast. This beer was brewed upon the request of Jeremy “the curl” VanSice
This beer demands respect and respect it will have. Imperial Oatmeal Stout with cocoa and molasses. It possesses rare flavor combinations which can overload even the most experienced beer connoisseur. Capture every bit of its warmth and wisdom, as it will demand all of your attention.
A collection of 13, 750ML creative brews. Each comes with its own trading card and story about each beer.
Imperial Spruce India Pilsner
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Huma-Lupa-Licious IPA
Pandemonium Pale Ale
The Village Reserve
Pontius Road Pilsner
The Local's Lager
Nicie Spicie
The Bellaire Brown
The Chocolate Wheat
The Soft Parade
Autumn Ale
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Black Cherry Porter
Smoked Apple Ale
Funkin Punkin
Cup A Joe Coffee Creme Stout
The Golden Rule
The Stellar Ale
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Short's Brewing Company, located in downtown Bellaire, Michigan (MI), is a fine craft brewery serving up innovative brews and delicious deli food. Find Short's on tap at fine restaurants like Lulu's, Alden Bar, Red Mesa Grill, Knot Just a Bar, Pearl's, The Blue Pelican, Trattoria Stella, The Loading Dock, Poppycocks, City Park Grill, The Park Place, Dusty's Tap Room and many more.
121 North Bridge Street, Downtown Bellaire • 231-533-6622 • www.shortsbrewing.com