There's Something About Cherry
Ellicottville Brewing Co.

 

From a brown twelve ounce bottle poured into a clear glass Imperial pint mug came this. Its color is copper-amber, certainly less red than most Flanders sours. There's very little head atop. The smell registers sour upon the nose and there's a hint of cherry. The taste is pleasant, but not very sour. It's mildly tart and only slightly cherry. It is light and refreshing, so much better than a comparable cherry seltzer, so why would one choose that over an actual beer? But, as something in the Flanders Red Sour style, this falls a little short. First, it's not sour, it might be mildly tart at best. Second, the cherry inclusion is too light. For something carrying the actual name of the berry, there's just not enough of it. Third, lastly and less importantly, it's a little light for the palate as a representative of this style. Not that it's not refreshing, but a true Flanders Red should have a little more body and be much more sour. This is a pleasant drinking experience, but lacking in the categories important to its style.

 

This was a sour flanders? Sure it had some cough syrup cherry flavor but it wasn't sour at all at least to my expectations. I wouldn't even consider this a fruit beer because even the flavor itself wasn't tart or sweet it was basically nothing. If anything it went down like a beer and wasn't watery but still no real or even artificial cherry flavor in this. I would pass on this if you want a nice sour fruit beer because it's not any of those things.

There’s Something About Cherry from Ellicottville. Purchased 10/20/20 for $2.11 (Including tax) for 12 oz bottle ($ 0.176/oz) from Shangy’s in Emmaus, PA. Reviewed 11/20/20.
Bottle marked on neck in almost invisible ink “06/19/25”. On room temperature shelf at store and stored at home at 42 degrees. Served at 45 degrees in a hand washed and dried Jester King snifter. Final temperature 57.7 degrees.
Appearance – 3.5.
First pour – Pale amber (SRM 9), clear.
Body – Medium amber (SRM 12), hazy and translucent with many suspended and precipitated particulates. When held to direct light, it resembles a ruby-tinted Oort cloud.
Head – Large (Maximum 3.2 cm, aggressive center pour), dirty white, high density and fizzy, short retention, diminishing to a one mm crown and no cap.
Lacing – None
Aroma – 3.75 – Cherry syrup but not quite cough syrup. No hops, no malt, no yeast.
Flavor – 3 – Ahh – there’s the medicinal cherry cough syrup, slightly on the sweet side. No hops, no malt, no yeast. No alcohol (6.2 % ABV, as marked on container) taste or aroma. No dimethylsulfide or diacetyl.
Palate – 4 – Medium, slightly syrupy, soft carbonation.
Final impression and summation: 3.5 Just another fermented cherry cough syrup. Move on, nothing to see here.

A decent sour with a strong cherry finish.