Lion Stout

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

Lion Stout 625 ml bottle Recent bottling, savoured 09/06 Medium pour in a tulip glass. Poured black with a huge light brown frothy mostly lasting head with good lacing. Smelt of heavy chocolate, with light coffee, roasted malt, herbs and port. Taste was upfront moderate sweet chocolate and light acidic fruitiness, followed by a lingering heavy bitter roasted taste, with tinges of clove honey, soy sauce and red wine. Mouthfeel was light, fizzy, oily, and the finish lightly alcoholic and heavily astringent. Overall, a perfectly balanced foreign stout that packs a punch on aroma and taste, and hides the abv wonderfully. Side Note: I’ve tried this with freshly squeezed mango juice, 1 part juice 1 part Lion Stout. The Sri Lankan locals apparently make a cocktail that involves mango juice, passion fruit and Lion Stout, but I haven’t a clue where to get passion fruit. Close enough, the result was equally eye opening.

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.

Good tan head and thick,dark pour,malty chocolate,coffee aroma,flavour,roasted coffee,malt and toffee,this has a lovely taste, finish is bitter and tangy.Good stout all the flavours come out nicely are not severe great tasting.

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.