Snozzberry
Green Man Brewery in Asheville, North Carolina, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer Regular|
Score
7.59
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Dogbrick (24152) ticked Snozzberry from Green Man Brewery 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle
Buckeyeboy (18951) reviewed Snozzberry from Green Man Brewery 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
750ml bottle thanks to Steve pours out amber red color topped with a small head. Nose raspberries big tart vinegar and oak barrel. Taste is more of the nice big tart raspberries big pucker vinegar notes.
Alengrin (11561) reviewed Snozzberry from Green Man Brewery 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Rated from a 2015 vintage bottle (two years old) at B.U.M.B.A.; apparently a 'lambic style beer' which the brewer does not call 'lambic' as such because it is not technically spontaneously fermented, but the beers are fermented with cultivated lambic yeast strains and barrel aged. The name 'snozzberry' refers to a fictional fruit as quoted in Roald Dahl's "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" but is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the male reproductive system as well, to put it politely - so which fruit actually went in here, is something I was unable to find out... Anyway: thinnish, off-white, more or less retaining head over a lightly hazy, rosé wine coloured beer, pinkish with orange glow. Aroma of stewed rhubarb, unripe gooseberries, redcurrant, soap, stale sweat, wet wood, gypsum, old urine, crabapple. Sour, very estery onset, lots of raw rhubarb astringency, apple peel and redcurrant crispness, fizzy carbonation, soapy wheat backbone with a chalky note to it, acidity drying the palate throughout but not in a too onedimensional or unpleasantly puckering way, chalkiness lingers at the back, some woody tannins, sour berries, very fruity indeed - but still I was unable to figure out which fruit we're having here, maybe because I had this near the end of the evening as well, so my palate had grown a bit tired by then, admittedly. In any case a well-crafted American sour, not quite as complex as actual lambic and, in comparison with those, relatively 'clean', but surely an honorable attempt in not relying on simple kettle souring - instead going to great lengths in maturing the 'lambic style sour ale' on barrels and picking out the best ones for blending. Have an extra point for making that effort - and for deliberately not creating artificial hypes around your beers, which seem to deserve more attention, though I can only judge this one of course. For now.
MarcoDL (7859) reviewed Snozzberry from Green Man Brewery 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
At Hopishop 2017. Had the 2013, 2015 and 2016 side by side. Aroma of tart, raspberry, cherry and oak. Taste has acidic red fruit, raspberry, oak, tart and horseblanket. Very nice. The young version is more lively and the older it gets, the more mellow and raisiny the beer gets.
djd07 (28898) reviewed Snozzberry from Green Man Brewery 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Bottle. Pours a cloudy copper with medium off white head that lasts. The aroma is funk, oak, berry. Medium body, berry, jammy, funky, oak, nice tartness, really enjoyed this one.
Travlr (30181) reviewed Snozzberry from Green Man Brewery 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle sample. Hazy ruby red color, off pink head. Aroma of bright berries, lemon, leather. Taste is softly sour berries. Delicious.
jtclockwork (20071) reviewed Snozzberry from Green Man Brewery 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle I brought back from Asheville. Pours pinkish red. White head. Nose and taste of tart raspberry, funky oak, light cherry vinegar and sour funky lemon. Lighter medium body.