Lion Stout

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

Nice head with bubbles in foam. Malty sweet, vanila, milk, good hops. Very drinkable and serviceable stout. This would be a standard beer for me if always available, which reflects that big stouts get higher ratings on complexity and thickness, but this is nice.

Bottle (330ml). (in my Trois Pistoles chalice). Pours thick almost black, hint of red - mocha head, rocky, quick dimishing, not much lacing. Aroma is burnt chocolate, malt and coffee (yum!) - a touch of appropriate sourness, a bit of yeastiness and bitterness in the background. Taste - instant hit of balanced chocolate/malt/coffee, followed quickly with a bit of tart wine, then bitter coffee and chocolate rushes in and grabs you ... Nice mellow, bitter finish - not too heavy, but substantial. Very, very good, not a lot of alcohol in the flavour for an 8% stout - excellent value for money, could drink many of them at a sitting. Packs a wallop!

Pleasant rich sweet woody aroma, with touch of dried fruit sweetness added to it. Subtle quality in two words. This dark ale posses the right medium smooth body for its silky flavour. Light sweet malts, oak acidic woody character wrapped by warming well refined alcohol .medium bitter finish just adds the final matching puzzle .Brewmasters took its time brewing this ale. Very good.

Eclipse black color. Large sized white foamy head. Aroma is chocolate and plums. Medium bodied foreign stout. Malts are chocolate and roasty, and a touch fruity. Hops are slightly spicy and a little bitter. Nice stout, lots of chocolate and coffee flavors but they seem to linger in the background and lets some of the fruitiness in this beer come to the forefront. Nice balance. Smooth taste. Hides the 8% alcohol very well. Nice beer. Mouthfeel is full and round. Finish is clean and dry. Aftertaste is slightly bitter.

Bottle labeled as Sinha Stout. Black bodied. Moderate chocolate brown head foreshadows the aroma of mild roast and chocolate. A thin layer of acidity lurks beneath. Flavour is surprisingly not sweet, with both a hoppy bitterness and a mild roasty acidity swirling beneath the dark roast malt character. Medium palate is smooth yet oddly watery all at once. Nice beer that failed to impress on this palate.

Excellent for the cost. Pours a black body with a tan head. Creamy malty chocolate mineral body. Lightly roasty with a dry chocolate bittering finish. Good brew.

This bottled brew poured a very large sized head of foamy fine to medium sized long lasting dark brown colored bubbles that left behind a fair lacing. The body was a black as midnight opaque dark black color with no hop of seeing any carbonation on it. The aroma was a pleasant dark malt dough one. The mouth feel was initially tingly and finished with a malty hop bite that smoothened a short time later. The flavor was full of dark malts mild coffee molasses and hops.

Average brown creamy head that mostly lasted. Dark brown color. Good lacing. Chocolate, coffee, liquorish, dry fruit. Medium bodied with a soft carbonation. Heavy sweet malty flavor. Not much bitterness. Sweet finish. Very sweet for a foreign stout.