Lion Stout

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

$8.49 for a six pack at Total Wine. Black beer with a nice tan head. Aroma of coffee and dark fruits. Flavor is coffee, chocolate, molasses, caramel, and dark fruit. A bit of sweetness on the front, tartness in the middle and drys out at the end with a smooth finish and lightly bitter aftertaste. 8% abv is completely covered in the flavor. This is way better than I expected, complex and excellent all around. I’ll have a few of these in celebration of St. Patty’s Day.. Yummy and impressive, and a good value.

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!!!

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Poured black into a snifter with a medium dark cream head. No lacing. Smell is of coffee, bakers chocolate, and toffee. Taste is also of these with burnt malt. Really good stout with a thick body and mouthfeel.

Bottle. Pours straight black with a light-brown head that leaves plenty of lacing. Aroma has liquorice, coffee and chocolate at the front with a touch of berries in the back. Flavour is very similar, with a bit of smokiness thrown in and a creamy framework. Mouthfeel is slightly thinner than expected but not exactly watery, and the creaminess doesn’t really come through on the palate. An exceptionally fine stout all the same.