Lion Stout

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

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.

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.

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.