Lion Lager (Sri Lanka)

Brewed by Lion Brewery (Sri Lanka)
Style: Pale Lager
Biyagama, Sri Lanka

Serve in Dimpled mug, English pint, Lager glass, Shaker

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Bottle, 4.8 %. Old gold coloured with a slim white head. Aroma has some sweet malts, fruit and hops. Clean, crisp and refreshing, not too much going on in the taste department, light sweetness and a spicey bitter finish. Light bodied. Quite enjoyed it.

2005 lion lager, big bottle, consumed 8/13/2005. Smells of fresh, lemony, grassy hops. Gold and a slight tinge of copper. Huge bubbles create a small, bubbly white head, not long retained, no lacing. Some lager yeast in the nose, lightly crisp. Starts with soft hops and corn-like flavors. Somewhat powdery and dry. Pretty bland to start. Some crisp lager yeast on the end, and the hops seem to cut some of the corniness. Not watery, but very overcarbonated. Some bread and crackers as it warms, maybe pretzel dough, if you will. Very clean as it breathes and on the finish. Corniness seems to pass quickly. Perhaps my bottle is a little stale? Better fresh, no doubt. Moderate to poor head retention. In the end, very forgettable and not nearly as refreshing as I had hoped for, but I do like that you can taste some hops. Decent stuff, suffers from the filtration, but that’s a pale lager, I guess. Funny that I prefer it warm.

Golden amber color with a small diminishing off white head. Light fruity aroma. Flavor starts lightly sweet followed by a peppey hop bite. It has a tangy finish with a medium thin palate. A suprisingly pleasant lager.

Gold. Earth, hay, herbs, weeds, light grain, skunk and moderate fruit in the nose, though it’s all very subtle. Husky and grainy malts, heavy bitterness-weedy, floral hops. Eck.

Quite bland, not alot of head. Pretty watery, but I suppose it would be good on a hot day, not bad, but very plain!

Bottle. Being traded around these parts as Sinha Lager, presumable to suck people like me in because I liked the stout. Hey , it worked. Medium to light industrial lager aroma. Quite thin body, watery palate. Nothing great about this, just boringly inoffensive.

Clar brass body, dark around the edges. Medium-thick cottony head. Smell is malty, yeas, vegetables. Taste is water, bandaids, blood, caramel and pale malts. Poor beer.

UPDATED: MAR 25, 2006 Some people must have got this guy skunked. Perhaps the crispest beer i’ve ever had. Goes down very smooth and has a taste that will make you smile and say Thats good beer.

Deep golden almost amber color with no real head. Corn aroma. Smooth over the tongue. Not bad.

a very light lager, i would probably prefer a michelob ultra to this. This stuff is terrible, bad aftertaste and the import that i got was very skunked. bad beer if this is what they have in sri lanka i feel for them