Lion Stout

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

12 oz bottle thanks to erway. Very dark pour with a great head. Lots of coffee and chocolate and alcohol in the aromas. The flavor was very intesnce. So much roastiness. Coffee coffee coffee. Alcohol on the finish. Very good.

Pours a deep black dirt colour, with a bountiful overflowing tan head. Plenty of earthy aromas, accompanied by dark chocolate, smoke and black licorice. Prevalent chocolate taste. Very filling, with plenty of flavor all around.

Bottle at home. Dark brown with a large light brown head. Aroma heavy malty (roasted, burnt, dark chocolate, coffee, dark fruit), light hoppy. Flavor moderate/heavy sweet, light bitter. Full body, soft carbonated. I would like another one!

Deep black, light tan creamy head. The nose was a rich and complex mix of roasted bittersweet chocolate malt, berry, vanilla, and hints of caramel. The flavor was full of soft roasty notes and bittersweet cocoa, with additional berry and coffeeish flavors throughout. A very nice hop bitterness brings it all together in the end to maintain balance. Medium to full bodied, pillow soft carbonation, velvety, dry, light bittersweet chocolate finish. Reminds me of a softer version of the Brooklyn BCS. Very nice stout...

Quite dark, but, then again, it's a stout, and that's a given. Good-sized puffy head. Nose has molasses and chocolate. Flavor is nicely smoky, with a hint of bitterness. When I spilled half of the bottle on myself, it was quite wet. Cold, too. Spotted the carpet admirably. Viscous enough to be difficult to clean up. May have possibly spilled a drop or two into the keyboard, meaning there's a real possibility of a sticky "n" key in the future. Monitor ratings for future misspellings to check on this. In short, quite a nice beer. Oh, and I'm still clumsy.

Moderately thick, opaque and black in color with a big fluffy and jiggly tan head. Aroma mildly entices with chocolate chip pancakes, Symphony chocolate bars, caramel and Tootsie Rolls. More free flowing flavor and palate feel than anticipated. Rich mocha frappachino and titillating semi-sweet chocolate morsels. Chocolate mousse with instant coffee grains in the graham cracker crust. Sleek, far reaching, medium bodied and easy going on the palate. Modest heartiness. Finish is encapsulating and thirst inducing, trailing with iced mocha similarities.

courtesy of one of our tasting member. Pours black, with a beige head. Aroma / taste grainy, with some licorice and roasted malts / coffee. Leaves a nice yellow lacing. Extremely smooth One amazing stout and offering to come out of Sri Lanka. Would love to try it again.

The beer poured black as a death with a very large head. After that settled the aroma was dark malts. The flavor was mainly dark chocolate and some dark fruit as well. The body on this beer was a little thin. Overall not the greatest stout but a nice one anyway.