Lion Stout

Brewed by Lion Brewery (Ceylon)
Style: Foreign Stout
Nuwara Eliya & Biyagama, Sri Lanka

Pours out black with a quick forming light brown head. Aromas of dark chocolates, fine tobacco, and roasted notes. Underlying dark fruits and black licorice seem to come through as it warms. Flavor is more tobacco, smoked woods, roasted malts, and yeast finishing with a fizzy chocolate roast! Thin but not light. Carbonation does a great job stimulating my taste buds and the hops become present on the dry finish and after taste.

Bottle. Dark colour with tan head. Wonderfult aroma with licroiose, chocolate and coffee. After the promising aroma the taste is a bit dissapointing. I sense some licroise and chocolate but I expected more body. Overall a nice stout, but could have been better.

Good mild stout. A little more heaviness, and this would be perfect. Delicious.

received as a "beer of the month" gift from my smokin’ cool wife! color is deep brown, head is thick creamy and light brown. aroma has loads of malt and some chocolatiness and has notes of what I think might be raisins. flavor has some chocolate, mild roastiness and a bit of tongue-numbing alcohol. mouthfeel is a bit thin to me...but not bad.

12/8/07 From the bottle. Aroma is roast malt with a decent amount of black malt and background of dark fruit skins. Appearance is very dark brown with a low tan head. Flavor has a slight sour bittering to it from black malt. Overall, slightly fruity, like a flavored dark chocolate dominated by its cocoa bittering. Mouthfeel is slightly astringent with full body, low creaminess and a dry finish. Overall, a big interesting beer, but not smooth enough to have more than one.

This was an unusual looking stout for me as the generous head produced, even with a careful pour, appeared to be a brown oatmeal sponge. The distinct coffee aroma invited my first taste to find the almost grainy medium body was easy to drink. The sweet aftertaste was present as an occasional sense of wateryness.

pours black, but not pitch black. Fizzy brown head and a little lacing. malts & oak on the nose which is really nice. Very easy to drink, however it is not very robust. Flavor is borderline complex with hints of hazelnuts, chocolate, & roasted malts. nice coffee flavor on the finish.

625 ml. Opaque black with a medium-sized head that leaves some frost on the glass. Aroma is hickory chips and molasses. Flavor is dark-roasted walnuts, charred wood, cocoa and coffee sweetened with molasses, and maybe some green mesquite smoke. Slight alcohol in the finish. Medium-heavy body is fairly smooth, kind of watery, and finishes dry. Pleasant surprise.