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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Pours watery with a golden body and a small white head. Very average low grade lager. Aroma is just plain weird. Smells like the vegetable section of a grocery store with hints of black tea. Actually, after smelling this beer I was slightly hesitant to drink it. Flavor pretty well matches the aroma. Very watery yet filled with off flavors. Copper, rust, drain cleaner, and cigarette ashes are some of the flavors I noticed. This is one strange brew.

Bottle from Cotteridge Wines, Pershore Road, Birmingham. Bottle was best before March 2012 but not consumed (or indeed purchased) until May. Looks flat and uninteresting - a clear amber, very little carbonation and just a thin halo of bubbles instead of a head. Metallic hops aroma, slightly sweetened and yeasty. Mouthfeel isn’t bad - just the right amount of fizz on the tongue. The taste lets it down, though - slight bitterness which is initially quite pleasant but with an unappetising vegetable aftertaste and a very short finish. Not great but I’m sure that if I had drunk it before the best before date it would have rivalled Westvleteren.

Bottle on 4/12/10. Good looking, golden lager. Smooth and with a sweet taste.

Clear golden with a white head. Aroma is sweet, malty and grainy. Flavor is medium sweet and light bitter. Dry and light bitter finish.

Pours a golden color with a minimal head. Very faint sweet aroma. Pretty thin watery beer. Drinkable.

Very light and easy to drink. A beautiful golden color with a rather pleasant after taste. Well worth the money.

Brillantly clear golden yellow with thin white head. Clean lager aroma. Nice clean flavor with good amount of flavor hops on the finish. Well made simple quaffable lager

Lager isn’t my thing but this one had the comparative advantages of both low carbonation and a soft palate, so reasonably bearable. The only reason I drank so much of it however was because so few bars/hotels in its home country offer the same brewery’s excellent stout.

Straw colored with minimal head, this beer barely exists. It has little aroma, negligible taste and is completely inoffensive in every way. Quite nearly water.

Ooh that smell... skunked corn. Phew. Stiff yellow color, quickly dissipating head. Tasted nothing like what I thought it would, might be one of the sweetest tasting beers I’ve had. Not much aftertaste, in fact not much taste at allbesides a quick rush of sweet. Then nothing. Avoid.