Lion Stout

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

Not very complex aroma. Nice mild and creamy mocha and dark chocolate flavours. Smooth and pleasant finish.

THANK YOU Tipsy. Black with a fair brown head. Not overly thick looking. Elegant molasses and rum aroma. Liquid envelops the tongue. Long lasting sweetness. Flavour is a masterful and delicate balance of alcohol and sweetness. A hint of chocolate and cherry in the finish.

Pitch black body, don’t even try to get light through it. Head is monstrous, heaving with toasted brown bubbles, lacing capabilities are infinite. Smell is rich, roasted chocolates, molasses, smoke, leather, alcohol, and any heavy fruit you can imagine. Powerful, wide open taste slams you with the alcohol and fruit, grapes up front then becomes extremely smokey and roasted. Drink this while barbequing your next swine. Aftertaste is sweet malt and smoke, really a damn good stout from a very unexpected locale. Only gripe is that this beer can be a tad cloying in aftertaste if you attempt to drink the entire 625ml bottle. Picked this one up at Norms in Vienna, VA.

Surprisingly it took me years to find this beer. Got this in Maine last fall. Some sweetness and a pleasing bitterness at the end of the palate. I haven’t had too many sweet stouts and I liked this one. Page 287 of Michael Jackson’s Great Beer Guide and only 332 out of his 500 Classic Brews to go.

Big bottle. Have waited 3+ years for this brew until I found it in Århus. Great thing. My waitingtime has not been loseless. Excellent aroma and a rather welltasting roasted malt in the flavor makes this brew unique.

Black, a bit of brown glow. Generous tan layer that leaves a viscous lacy ring and lingers all the way through the glass. Aroma is exotic and complex: raisins lead, with smokey molasses and a bit grilled meat. Almonds, cola. Heavily black roast flavor, creosote, smoke, but a surprisingly dry, utterly clean finish, that is almost refreshing (quite a feat for such a strong dark beer). Lots of sparkle to the mouthfeel, but fine textured and not aggressive. Been looking for this one for quite some time--fun to finally get to try it. I have to give this a bonus points for having a good story; the treacherous mountain journey to get ingredients to the brewery. Then the treacherous journey to get this bottle from Sri Lanka, to Aarhus, Denmark where I found it, to London (narrowly escaping a last minute baggage weight purge--other bottles were not so lucky), coach to Oxford, to Woodstock, to my glass, which I raise back to these intrepid brewers.

330 ml bottle. Pours a dark brown almost black with foamy brown head and beautiful cascading effect. Bit of sour red grape aroma with a fruity alcohol undertone. Very smooth, bit of a chocolatey bitternes. Roasted mocha flavor. Nice warming character. Great stout.

Aroma of Chocolate and French Roast Coffee. Very enjoyable. Nice thick …chewy palate. Admirable malt body with a strong malt finish. Kind of like pumpernickle with a spread of sorgam. Lightly sweet with just enough hops to round it off. I was quite impressed with this stout from Sri Lanka. Will buy again.