Lion Stout

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

Pours very dark brown with a brown head that leaves fairly quickly. Aroma has rich dark chocolate, roasted malt, vanilla and cream. Medium / thin mouthfeel with medium light carbonation. Starts out creamy and roasty with flavors detected on the aroma. Finish is prickly on the tongue with a citrus hoppiness. There is also some spiciness on the finish. The finish was nothing I would expect from a stout, but a very good beer.

bottle - Pours very dark brown with a medium sized fading tan head. It smells of smoky roast malt with a hint of chocolate. The flavor is of dark roast malts with coffee and chocolate notes. It’s fairly bubbly on the palate and finishes dry. Very nice stout.

Smells and tastes like cherries or plums soaked in whiskey. This is fusel, flat....too unrefined. Is this whiskey? This beer tastes much better when warm. Could not find the sweetness that others did. Naturally astringent bitterness clinging long after the finish that makes you sip. Moretti La Rossa has almost as much alky but has a much better beer flavor. The label proudly states it’s alky content and you won’t pass a DUI stop after drinking three of these. Not quite as good as I anticipated. I don’t how it made the 96th percentile. I know hops are bitter but there is something else in there except bitter hops. If you love IPA, try this one Everyone else loves this but I guess I’m not a real beer drinker if I don’t like bitter beer. Probably better if you eat something with this. I bought a case on a recommendation, now I’m sorry. The only reason why I rate this as high as 1.5 is because everyone else around here would think I’m nuts if I went lower Will not buy again, gave a 6 pack away.

I have been hearing good things about this beer for a little while now so I have been curious to try it. Sampled from a rather pretty 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured thick, black and oily with a large creamy dark brown head. I don’t think a stout can look much better than this one does in the glass. There is a nice roasted malt aroma with a decent hop presence and a hint of sour fruit. The flavor is malty and complex with a mix of chocolate, hops and almost spice. The hops, while noticeable are not overwhelming. The beer is surprisingly sweet and has a mild aftertaste. This is on the short list of nice stouts.

330ml bottle. Roasty, bittersweet chocolate aroma, fairly complex with hints of smoke and prune alongside faint brown sugar, wood, dried flowers and dark bread. Solid black color with a fine, subsiding head and a good amount of lacing. Flavor profile is grainy and roasty to start, becoming nicely fruity and sweeter and seeing an influx of semi-sweet chocolate and toffeeish flavors before the long, mildly alcoholic, drying, earthy and fully malty finish. Very smooth and slick on the palate with a low amount of effervescence and a full body. Highly enjoyable; recommended.

Totally black beer with nice head,must be the best beer in Asia reallt fine taste of coffee and chocolate creamy and bitter whits nice mouth feeling.Super beer.

625ml bottle. Pours nearly opaque, nearly black wiht a huge, fluffy, lacy brown head. The aroma of molasses and flowery hops was apparent duing the pour. Aroma of chocolate and grass in the glass. Medium body with light carbonation. The taste starts with sweet roasty malt. Dry coffee finish with minor hints of salt and cigarette ash.

Black with a large long lasting tan head. Smooth silky full body, almost a little oily. Berries in the nose, along with some roast and aniseed. Sweetish liquorice, molasses and roast in the flav. A touch warming but really top stuff.