Norman’s Liquor Beer & Wine

Upon first entering, liquor is stacked to the ceiling, wherever you look. My first thought was, wow, what a selection! However, there are no signs, no rhyme or reason to where a product is, so you end up walking aimlessly looking at every bottle of booze in a futile attempt at finding what you are looking for. No thank you.

Fantastic selection! Great service. Lots of fun to shop there. You aren’t getting price gouged for being on the water and if they don’t have what you need, you must be looking for something extremely obscure. Will be back!!!

Great selection but that’s outweighed by the poor service and not so funny employees. Very disappointing experience.

Great Selection. Good Prices. Seriously, it is hard enough to find good ginger beer, but I found multiple ones here, including two that were diet. Nice high and low end choices.

Very helpful and they do tastings! Ok beer selection. Coming from Denver so hard to top.

GO SOMEWHERE ELSE!!! the owner and staff are just MISERABLE. these guys just seem to want people not to buy things. they practically bit my head off because i walked in the store at 9:40 when the store closes at 10. some of their alcohol is open and they will gladly sell it to you without you knowing. and once you buy it don’t even try returning it, once they have your money they couldn’t care less whats wrong with what you bought. just don’t go here, you’ll end up being mad you gave these people your money.

I’m a business owner, and St Pete Beach resident, so I try to spend my money at local businesses as much as I can to support them. I have a love/​hate relationship with this liquor store.
On the love side; they really have a massive selection of booze, stacked floor to ceiling in an incredible way that will make you wonder how the fire marshal doesn’t have a heart attack when walking through the door. I’ve always been able to find what I need for any last minute bartending requirements. I’m not a wine drinker though so I can’t speak to their wine selection. They are also located right across from the beach in the middle of all the hotels, so they’re incredibly convenient.
On the hate side, their pricing on many things really stinks. I have to assume it’s based on volume discounts so the slower moving liquors end up priced higher. For example, a 1.75ml of Bacardi is typically a reasonable price. On the other hand, most of their tequila options, of which they do have many, are priced dramatically higher than you’d find at a big box liquor store like Total Wine. For example, in July 2014, I found Milagro Silver for $ 23 at TW and I believe $ 45 at Norman’s. I love the convenience and I try to do my best to support them, but I’m not going to pay double the price for a bottle of liquor.
Unrelated to booze, they have a humidor too. I haven’t bought any sticks from them yet but will update if I do.
A final tip; they will sell a limited number of their parking spots for daytime beach parking. So, in a pinch, if you can’t find a spot, try here.

My first stop upon arrival at St Pete Beach. Everything booze and booze related.
Be careful when walking through the store, one false move will send thousands of bottles flying in all directions!
The prices and service are much better than at the creepy liquor store in the Publix plaza up the street.

Huge selection of beer, wine and booze. Friendly staff. Free parking in their lot.

Still the best source, with the best prices, for beer and wine on the beach. Sadly the The Hideaway Lounge, which was co-​located with Norman’s is now closed.
Also worth noting is that Norman’s has a rather limited port selection, which is located at the back of the walk-​in cigar humidor. The cigar selection is stellar, offering a wide variety of «house» cigars, which claim to be as good as a Cuban. Many are buy 5 get one free.

AWESOME BOOZE EMPORIUM! Extra star for being on the beach, where you least expect it!
Crammed full (literally– you better lose 10 pounds before you try to squeeze through their aisles, they are so tightly packed) of an amazing variety of liquors, wines, and beers, not to mention a gigantic walk-​in humidor for cigars in the middle. From the very top shelf to the lowest of frat-​boy rot guts, they have it all– and then some. Puts my local Beltway Fine Wines to shame, at ¼ the space.
And pricing– seems good from where we’re from– about what we would pay. May be expensive for Florida– but for us Baltimoreans, it seems right on target!

I am on vacation, and staying in a resort with a kitchen, and am frugal, so I went to Norman’s as usual during my vacation to purchase wine and liquor to be made into cocktails. The very helpful salesman steered me away from purchasing «marginal» high advertising budget vodka, to a 10 times distilled vodka, for a similar price. The store is tiny, so I walked carefully since there are signs saying «you break you buy.» I’d rather make cocktails in my kitchen and drinking them on the balcony to watch the sunset to paying for weak drinks at the tiki lounge. I have never seen so many types of flavored vodka (bubblegum, chocolate raspberry, gummy bear, wedding cake, ad nausea) in a single liquor store. They also offer a humidor selling cigars. I paid prior house sitters with cigars during prior vacations here.

The alcohol selection is top notch. But the Yankee fan behind the counter is an asshole.

Really quite solid liquor store. Each aisle is dedicated to a particular liquor, it would seem, so a great selection. Prices are decent, too!

This is for the liquor store, not the bar. Staff is like family to regulars. Lowest prices on the beach, fantastic selection. Also, they often have samples.

Review is for the liquor store only — not the bar in the back.
Norman’s is one of the few stores carrying the new Siesta Key Rum, so we stopped in to pick some up. Being right on the beach in a tourist area, we really weren’t expecting much of a store.
We were pleasantly surprised. Norman’s has a great selection of every type of liquor we could think of — including brands that tend to be really hard to find. The prices were surprisingly reasonable as well. Priced on par with, or better than some of the big chains.
The wine and beer selections were also decent. Not a lot of craft brews, but a better selection of mid-​size breweries than I would have expected. The wine selection was a little small, but what they had quality wines.
One of our group had been looking for Layer Cake shiraz. They carried Layer Cake, but were out of the shiraz. The cashier took our friend’s name and number and promised to call them when it came in next — which they expected to be only a few days away.

Piled sky high with great alcohol.
I tried hard, and the only thing I couldn’t find was Mezcal, and some rare Italian Amaros.
Waaaaaay better than average bourbon selection. I’d never even seen a Dickel Sour Mash (red label) before. They had George T, really good ryes like the Thomas Handy. Tequilas, Scotch (pretty good) and even a respectable variety of Irish whiskey.
Big cooler with all kinds of beers which is a lifesaver because every single restaurant here has dog piss on tap. Dog piss Lite, Dog Piss Ice, Dog Piss Ultra, etc. Norman’s is the place for your BYOB!
Snacks, nips, smokes, etc.
A little bit scuzzy, but tolerable.