Lion Heart Stout

Brewed by Big City Brewing Company
Style: Foreign Stout
Kingston, Jamaica

Nearly black pour with a thin brown head. Aroma has a lot of alcohol, chocolate and a sweet, wine-like, fruitiness. Flavor is much like a chocolatey red wine as odd as it sounds. Fruity finish with lingering cherry, red grapes and booze. This one was going in about 20 different directions.

Coffee and Chocolat. Light body and crisp character. Very well made stout. Sweet but not overly sweet.

Bottle from mgumby10; nose of chcolate, roastiness, and some prunes; clear red brown like a 25 year old cabernet; small tan head; flavor is sweet, dark raisins and a small amount of chocolate and minor bitterness; with a light sweet finish d=from the relatively thin body. Different!

Date: 04/07/2007
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, 50 Beers on the Wall

dark ruby red, wispy beige head, sweet chocolate and licorice aroma, light creamy body, sweet roasted flavor, lots of rich milky chocolate, no bitterness, sweet finish,

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 13/20
Rating: 3.3/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **+/4

Bottle @ MVP, KY. Pours black with a medium tan head. Aroma of roasted malt, dark chocolate, and some dark fruit. The flavor was maily chocolate with a fair amount of dark fruits. Medium mouthfeel, a little thin for a stout.

Bottle at Village Pub, KY. Poured black color with a large frothy brown head that mostly lasting with good lacing. Moderate roasted coffee and dark chocolate aroma. Medium body with a smooth texture. Medium burnt coffee flavor with a medium dark chocolate bitter finish of average duration. Good start, soft finish.

2006 bottle drunk on 4/26/07
Light-coffee colored head is small, receding to partial-cover and producing no lace. Dark black body is clear and shows garnet highlights. Filtered/forced carbonated/pasteurized.
Pretty cool nose, despite the flavor. All the adjunct sugar mixes with the alcohol and a bit of the barley to produce a grainy, vinous, semi-sweet liqueur-like nose laced with chocolate and vanilla. The plums and prunes come out nicely as well. Alcohol is, surprisingly, not very fuselic, or at least, not harsh. No hops to speak of, very clean as far as the yeast is concerned.
Flavor, unfortunately, is all sugar; adjunct sugar. Or more accurately, I should say, the body is all adjunct sugar. Meaning pretty much no body. Almost as thin as soda, with loose, fizzy carbonation and a long turbinado sugar finish, with cola and vanilla suggestions in the middle and very little resemblance to beer. Not too bitter, it says? Not bitter at all. Seemingly pale malt, a hint of black malt for coloring and the rest is filled out by cane sugar or whatever they used. Too sweet, didnt finish the bottle. Kind of reminds me of an Avery product.........

12 oz bottle from Lueken’s. The bottle had almost as much dust coating it as it did white sediment resting at the bottom. I have no idea how old this is. Pours nearly black with sparkling beverage type bubbles that make up the brown head. It didn’t last more than a couple of seconds. The aroma is light with hints of alcohol, olives, sweetness of something vaguely malty, faint burnt malts, toffee and caramel. The carbonation is above average and struggles to pull up any flavor from the depths of the brew like abyss. By midway I finally start to notice flavors like sweet malts, toffee, dark fruit, some burnt malts and faint caramel candy. Tasty brew for a beer beyond its prime.