Lion Stout

625 ml bottle from Keller’s IGA. Pours a deep brown, almost black, with a big tan head. Aroma of milk chocolate, coffee, brown sugar, and hazelnut. Flavor is not as chocoaty, with coffee, hazelnut, roast, caramel, malt, and a little warming alcohol. Medium bodied. Roasty, sweet, with an alcoholic burnt aftertaste. Not my favorite type of stout, but still a solid brew.

330ml bottle (as Sinha Stout) into a Trappist glass. Pours opaque near black with a faint red hue and a medium light brown head that provides good lacing. Aromas of dark chocolate and dark roasted coffee beans with an alcoholic presence. The palate is rich and creamy with cafe mocha and dark fruit flavours (prunes mainly). It finishes with a satisfying bittersweet burnt aftertaste. I have no idea how a brewery in Sri Lanka has come up with such a good stout but this is well worth seeking out.

33 cL bottle. Time to tick another little dot on my Geo map. The label back shows Michael Jackson drinking some stout from a snifter, so I got out my tulip glass. Pours deep brown like a cola, with visible brown bubbles in a thick head. Nice sweet smell of milk chocolate and brown sugar. First sips offer astringent grains, coffee, and a hint of chocolate. A bit of cocoa and the sourness of an English style stout. Chocolate is mostly in the nose throughout this glass. Sourness builds, but never about the level expected for the style, which I call "cherry cordial." Alcohol is well subdued. Mouthfeel is a bit fizzy for a beer that’s best experience on cask or nitro. Some yeast in bottom of bottle, probably not enough to easily culture (but I have to consider the possibilities). A fine beer, though I didn’t think it as great as the average here.

330ml bottle pours solid black that the sun seemed incapable of penetrating. big brown head , leaving lotsa lacing aroma chocolate and coffee flavor- toffee chocolate coffee, fruity warming alcohol in the (sweet) finish. low bitterness. Thick palate low carbonation. not bad at all.

Shared bottle from Ron. Thank Ron! Beautiful looking. Thick head, dark brown. Rich nose. Complex, chocolaty, a bit like a decadent dessert. Great pattern left as I sipped this. Palate of milk duds to start then turned wild, gave a kick, some hops, some alcohol, a bit less smooth at the end but that was okay by me. Great beer.

Aromas of licorice, roast, alcohol. Dark body with darkish head. sweet but not clingy. but overall a little sweet for me. oily i the mouth.

Pours a nice black with a thick brown head. Aroma of chocolate, roasted malt, slight coffee, and black liquorice. Flavor is very similar, but very smooth and easy to drink. Flavor also has hints of nuts. Overall very nice.

Pours black with a thick tan head. Moderate lacing and nice halo remains. Nose is heavy on coffee, cardboard and hint of raisin. Taste is heavy on coffee, fairly dry, slightly acrid, small amount of roast character. Pretty much a one note soldier.