Lion Stout

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

625mL bottle. Pours a pitch black appearance, slight brown light coming through at the edges; medium light-tan head formation with good retention; strong lacing. Roasted malts, dark chocolate in the aroma; slight hint of sourness. Full, roasted mouthfeel: charred malts, milk chocolate, hint of lactic acid tartness; medium finish showing roasted malts and bitter chocolate. Excellent foreign stout.

Bottle. An opaque deep red beer with a thin dark brown head. It looks delicious and the aroma enhances that - an amazing creamy milk chocolate and roasted coffee aroma greets you with some smoke and raisin added. The flavor is actually less distinct than the aroma but good qualities of the chocolate and coffee malt remain strong. Bitter finish but bery balanced and easy palate.

A very nice stout, full of chocolate, raisins, rosted malts and dry fruits. Its creamy texture, excellent lacing and the 8 % abv make this a fantastic winter warmer. Making south asia very proud.

Pours as black as motor oil with a thin creamy beige head. The beer starts off with just hints of roasted malts in the aroma, but as it warms up the aroma becomes much more fuller with caramel, chocolate, rainsin, dark fruit, and summer sausage?? Sweet, but not too sweet, lots of malts, and bitter chocolate, the syrian hops providing good balance in the finish. Nice carbonation levels, beer is a teeny bit watery, but maybe i’m just being picky. I really enjoyed this beer, my favorite foreign stout so far.

Thanks to MrManning for the bottle. Pours black and slightly watery with a thick fluffy tan head. Roasted grain, slightly sweet malt, chocolate malt aroma. Light roasted grain and chocolate malt taste. Not overpowering, but subtle and tasty. I find it to be more of a baltic porter, but without the heaviness. Really good.

Caramel and chocolate aroma. Dark Mahogany in color with a short lived milk chocolate brown head. Taste was chocolate and smoke. Chocolate and almond in the finish. Not too sweet, but very delicious.

[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.

Color is black. Medium head is brown and lacy. Delicate dry aroma: chocolate, roasted malts. Very much coffee in the flavor. Also roasted malts and chocolate. Maybe some ashyness as well. Palate is full-bodied and smoothly carbonated.