Lion Stout

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

A fairly viscous pour kicks up a handsome, medium sized cocoa powder colored head that lasts longer than most. Laceing is solidly sticky and web like. A coal black brew with red highlights. Nose is chocolatey, fruity and raisiny. Body is med/full, velvetty and slick, nice. Mild roast and chocolate flavors, cocoa, a hint of vanilla. Fairly dry malt flavors with a touch of caramel backing it all up. Finish is almost dry and gently roasty. My favorite Sri Lankin beer! ;}

Bottle pours black with a big Florida blonde tan head and lots of naughty lace. The aroma is serious malt, a touch of roast, and chocolaty. The flavor is heavily roasted, bitter chocolate, and molasses. The palate is as rich as it can get. Overall, a very nice Foreign Stout.

Nice dark appearance with a brownish head,roasty aroma and roasty malty flavour,but I would never guess that this was 8 %!!!! Really nice beer,very easy drinking.

Slightly sweet and fruity aroma with some straw like notes as well as some alcohol and of course roasted grains. Large light brown head with good to excellent lacing, but unfortunately the head diminishes rather quickly. Slightly sweet flavour with moderate bitterness which balances out to light bitterness for an average length finish. Full body with a creamy texture.

12 oz. bottle courtesy of Naka. Pours black with khaki, fizzy head, thick, but quickly dissipating with a cascading effect. Sweet caramel and roast dominate the nose, some dark fruit, raisin and plum, and a slight touch of chocolate. Taste is very sweet, caramel and toffee, roasted coffee and some chocolate. Moderate bitter and roast in the finish, that lingers well into a semi-dry after accenting some alcohol warmth. Great mouth feel, moderate carb. This is tasty. Deceptively sessionable.

[Bottle] Pours fairly dark brown with a large tan head. Aroma is quite sweet with roasted and charred malt, some chocolate, almost a nuttiness at one point and a little alcohol also evident. Taste has a little coffee and chocolate, but is mainly just malt with the char taste coming through very strongly in the finish. Medium mouthfeel--could stand to be a little thicker. Fairly smooth. The description of char maybe was not the best as it does not make it sound very appealing, however that is what it tasted like and yet it worked for it. All in all this was a quality beer that I will definitely have again some time.

Pours out black with a quick forming light brown head. Aromas of dark chocolates, fine tobacco, and roasted notes. Underlying dark fruits and black licorice seem to come through as it warms. Flavor is more tobacco, smoked woods, roasted malts, and yeast finishing with a fizzy chocolate roast! Thin but not light. Carbonation does a great job stimulating my taste buds and the hops become present on the dry finish and after taste.

Really enjoyed this beer...mahogany edges but black at the core, this beer sports a nice 1-inch khaki head. Aroma is that of tobacco, chocolate, espresso, and vanilla. Taste also exhibits the same tobacco and roasted malt characteristics. Sweet and interesting. A bit oily but overall a nice surprise!!!