Lion Stout

23 May 2006 - Roasted, choc malt aroma. Black colour’ low head and lacing. sweet roasted, light smoked malt flavour. malt bitter finish and medium mouthfeel. This is a beer that seems to have a good reputation, I can only put this down to not being a stout fan. Overall - This beer was too simple for me.

Bottle. Pours a thick foamy deep brown, that head up more than expected. Rich roasted malt aroma, with a bit of hop note. Heavy, with a pleasant burnt malt/hop flatness.

Pours a very dark brown with a couple inches of solid brown foam. Rich dark malt in the aroma. Good lacing. The flavor is rich and full of roasted malt, with hints of mocha, molasses, and even rum. Smooth and full bodied - VERY filling.

Pours dark rich mocha color with about three fingers of head that dissipate to none after seven minutes or so. For me, this is how a stout should me. Strong mocha chocolate flavor up front that finishes clean. Palate stout enough for stout but clean enough to not linger. Really really am impressed with this stout and will definately buy again.

Molasses, chocolate and malt nose. Pitch black body with thick, frothy brown head of two fingers. Complex flavors of dark chocolate, toffee, coffe and roasted barley malt. Aftertaste is bitter and leaves a smooth feeling in your mouth with the 8% alcohol well hidden. Great beer no doubt, but not my style.

Sweet, roasted malt flavor. Don’t taste hops. Very dark brown color. Medium mouth feel is pleasing.

11.2 oz. bottle. The powerful aroma suggests mocha and nuts. It is slightly sour, and both the dark malts and the hops are present. The beer pours a sharp near black color with an amber hue and a creamy tan head. The flavor is remarkably sweet. It contains milk chocolate notes, hop tartness, and a dunkel lager-like taste from the dark malts. The alcohol taste is slightly noticeable. There is surprisingly little aftertaste. In the palate, this medium-bodied beer is very creamy, as if I had poured it out of a nitro can instead of a glass bottle. This is a good dessert beer, and I think it would accompany chocolate cake or mousse nicely. It is well worth trying, but it didn’t blow me away. It is perhaps a bit too sweet for my tastes.

I was having one hell of a time getting any kind of scent off this beer. Not much of an aroma, I could dectect some very slight chocolate scents but that was about it. Pour is a nice opaque black with your typical copper/brown head. Now the taste. This stuff is light as hell. This one definately does not share the typical flavor characteristics of a stout. Its smooth but not malty, and has a bit of a sweet taste to it. Overall I would rate this one slightly above average.