Lion Stout

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

Big bottle. Nice thick black colour.Great light brown foam. Yummy aroma of dark chocolate and coffee. Creamy lovely flavour of roasted malts, chocolate and with a some bitterness. Nice long aftertaste. A grea great stout! And that 8% alc. sure warms you up.

Aroma has cake dough and pineapple. Sweet, full bodied beer with just a hint of sourness. Strong roasted malt and tropical fruit flavors (pineapple and mango). A tasty tropical treat!

Bottle. Black colour with a big baige head. Light sweet light alcoholic roasted aroma and a sweet light roasted coffee taste. Medium body and a sweet light roasted finish.

A Mes rate: 33cl bottle from Selfridges. A new rate for me but I am previously aware of its quality. Sri Lanka is not somewhere I would think of when considering quality beer but this is well worthy of its lofty position. The nose is obviously stout like but there is a wonderful note of vanilla cake too. The roasted malt is a given but here it is well pronounced and quite excellent. Hints of plum in there too. The body is deepest darkest brown with a thin tan film. Flavour is just like the aroma but with a noticable kick of alcohol. It is almost too much but just before it starts to be unpleasant there is a dollop of sweet malt and a very late rush of bitter hops. A well balanced full bodied gem. An excellent beer.

Pours almost completely black with a big creamy brown head that doesn’t go away easily :o) Slightly coffee aroma and a lot of roasted malts. Actually the aroma seems kind of sweet, with a feeling og dark syrup or dark sugars. The beer starts sweet with coffee flavours and an apparent freshness seldom seen in such a stout. The pang comes later, when the sweetness resides and the roasty malts come to the forefront.

A very dark stout with a medium head. Good tasting stout with chocolate and coffee undertones.

12oz bottle-pours a big creamy to rocky light brown head that laces and black color. Aroma is dark malt-roasty/some molasses/chocolate, oatmeal, slight acidity. Taste is dark malt-some molasses/chocolate, acidic, some dark fruit. Smooth, nice for style. Thanks jwc215 for sharing.

Close to black. Nice brown foamy head, creamy and sticky. Boring ashes and powdery roasted malts aroma. Cane sugar and brown sugar dancing together among a flour meadow. Well hidden alcohol, I’ve got to give it that. I just fail to understand the interest, a ton of flour flavours in there and I don’t dig that. Extremely cerealic taste, both bready and licorice reminiscent, yet fortunately not too sweet despite vanilla and rough chocolate bar hints. Well aired body, moderately carbonated, smooth palate. I didn’t quite find the deep fruitiness I was expecting, it’s a style I don’t quite get yet, but I’m hard on stouts, I dislike the sweet ones and I can’t stand the roasty/acidic ones either. For now, I’ll keep my cereals for breakfast thank you.