Sour Norm
Ellicottville Brewing Co.

Beer Geek Stats
From:
Ellicottville Brewing Co.
 
New York, United States
Style:
Wild Ale
ABV:
Not listed
Score:
+8 ratings needed
Avg:
2.88 | pDev: 15.63%
Ratings:
2 | reviews: 1
Status:
Retired
Rated:
Aug 24, 2015
Added:
Jul 06, 2015
Wants:
  0
Gots:
  0
No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
 
Rated: 3.33 by plowe70 from New York

Aug 24, 2015
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Reviewed by GreesyFizeek from New York

2.42/5  rDev -16%
look: 2.75 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 2.25
On tap at Blu Wolf Bistro in Rochester, NY. The label describes this a beer with wild yeast, Brett, plums, and raspberries. Certainly sounds good on paper.

This pours a dull yellow-ish, with no head or lacing.

Smells like almost nothing, super boring, maybe some wheat and hay, but nothing really to write home about.

If you're going to call your beer Sour Norm, at least make it sour. There's basically no sour aspects to this beer- it's maybe a .5/10 on the greesyfizeek sour scale. The fruit flavor is also quite dull. No raspberries, and just the slightest hiccup of plum in here. This is one of the most boring sours I've ever drank, there's just NOTHING to it.

This is light bodied, with a crisp mouthfeel, and a quite watery finish.

This was pretty bad. It wasn't atrocious, but it didn't hit any of the marks I would expect it to, given the descriptions. What a waste of fruit. And yeast. And hops. And malt.
Jul 06, 2015