Dragon Stout

Brewed by Desnoes and Geddes (Diageo PLC)
Style: Foreign Stout
Kingston, Jamaica

Serve in Snifter, Tulip

Just missed out on being the 333th review for this sucker. Bottle. Too-sweet malty aroma, some brown sugar and light corn, dark coke pour with a fizzy light brown head (actually ends up pretty rocky). Overly cloying body, really rather hard to drink, with light molasses and roast notes. Medium body and a sweet malty aftertaste. The black malt can’t even overpower the corn syrup here; an undrinkable, highly-overrated mess - what are you people thinking!?!?.

Bottle. Pours almost black with ruby accents and a sticky tan head. Aroma has notes of semi-sweet chocolate and fruit. Medium body. Sweet flavor with notes of roasted malt and fruit. Also has a bit of an alcohol/metallic edge. Not bad.

Not your robust stout. Mildly sweet taste like a cola. You could mix it with some vanilla ice cream and have a nice ice cream soda.

284ml bottle from an off-licence store at Kings Cross, London. Dark brown body under a very fast diminishing head. Sweet malty smell sustained by a candy sweet flavour of roasted black malts. Alcohol hints towards the ending. Foamy palate. Very sweet, in fact far too sweet (11.03.2008).

Bottle courtesy of Dragonstout, of course! THANKS BRIAN!!!! Pours a dark brown with nice mocha colored head. Lasted quite awhile. Very sweet smell of malts and roasted nuts. Taste was completely unexpected. Extremely sweet, which I looooved! Sweet roasted malts and molases. Very lively little stout. Completely enjoyable and very drinkable. I could drink this often.

Thanks to Secret Santa for sending this. Pours black to reddish brown with a big long lasting khaki head. Aroma of caramel, cane sugar, chocolate, very mild coffee, vanilla, just a bit of coca cola. Flavor cheapens the experience, tasting like Dr. Pepper mixed with a real stout. There’s a slight roast flavor, but it’s too soda-like, even in the exceptionally high carbonation. Finishes cloying, even the beer isn’t terribly sweet, with more soda-flavor and a not much bitterness. Guess that hop extract didn’t do the trick? It’s the Coke Blak of beers.

a moderately respectable brew that has moderate sugary tastes and a metallic tang enhanced by a nicely strongish alcohol quotient. the metal is from the hop character which is not of a particularly noticeable profile. it does hint at some dark and stewed fruits and a note or two of mainly a liquid smoke splash or 2. body and palate are acceptable (again moderate), refreshing and somewhat substantial. not a mistake at all. this sweet number has a niche to fit in to and would be welcome under certain circumstances.

Bottle. Good drinking beer. Has a burnt sugar taste with a dash of rum. Hop finish.