Lion Stout

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

Bottle pours out black with a ruby boundary and a big rocky tan head with excelelnt lace. Roasted coffee, dark chocolate, some alcohol, and a hint of licorice in the aroma. Body is only medium, but nicely smooth with medium carbonation. Pleasing dark malt flavors transition to a soft bitterness and a pleasing dry finish without harshness. This has good balance and drinkability, a stout worth seeking out.

Bottle that theisti brought back from Bottleworks, in Seattle. Pours black with a large, dense, creamy tan head. Dark roasted malts, bittersweet chocolate and faint coffee on the nose. Full-bodied and creamy with a nice, bitter, roasted finish. Creamy chocolate, coffee and cream with a tight, roasted, bitter finish. Very nice. Thanks again, Tim.

From A Bottle.Almost black in colour,nice head,chocolate,coffee aroma,big dark fruit flavour,thick and rich.

Near black in colour with slightly higher than average carbonation. Aromatic profile begins with a somewhat pilsner-like sulfur hit before evolving picking up notes of mild coffee and plum. It’s fairly light in the mouth, and has some intriguing yet light flavors of espresso, chocolate, and a bit of caramel. Overall, this is fairly restrained as far as stouts go, but I could see this one being quite nice in the hot weather. Thanks radiomgb.

Sweet chocolate aroma. Flavour is sweet at first with some smoke and late roast malt bitterness. It’s good for a tropical stout, but any beer that has a picture of MJ on the label is sure to be a let down.

Thin, with a decent chocolate taste. Pretty good, but not great.

Have to start by thanking Mark Lightfoot from the International Beer shop, W. Leederville, for recommending this gem. Quite easily the best Foreign Extra Stout I have tasted, and possibly ever will!! Poured into a stumpy tulip, a large dense, light brown head formed, stuck firmly to the side of the glass, and webbed like paint down the sides. Black and completely opaque body with only a little yeast that settled out on the bottom. Intense roasted malt nose, quite sweet and treacly, with wafts of dark chocolate, molasses, coffee grains and light sherry notes (don’t know the age of the bottle). An underlying alcohol spice seemed to compliment the other aromas, and it all came together like a dark, winter pudding dessert and travelled straight through into the mouth. Big in body, lightly carbonated and smooth as silk across the tongue, it finished off with a long warming alcohol and malt swallow, that just hit all the right buttons. Flavours of burnt sweet sugars, milk and dark chocolate, roasted coffee beans, plums and other dark fruits and a hint of earthy spices, seemed balanced to perfection and all in unison to complete this wonderful beer. Big in flavour, smooth and creamy and well crafted. A wonderful Stout and one I am sure to hunt down again. Lovely!!!

Pours a dark brown blackish color with red highlights. Thinnish 1/2" off white head. Smells of roasted malts and a bit chocolatey and coffee. Tastes of toasty malts with some coffee. Pretty thin body, not impressed. Just ok carbonation. Its ok, not the greatest stout.