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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Nice golden orange, fine head thick with small bubbles. Clean sweet malt nose with some orange and peach, very restrained. Very clean on palalte with sour cream flavors and slight hoppiness. Not a bad summer session beer.

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

Pours a nice dark amber, has a nice malty aroma with fruity and spicy hints. Flavor is very interesting, quite different from most lagers I have tried; it is very fruity, more like a cider than a beer. It is very smooth and has no hop taste or bitterness. Very refreshing.

(05.09.06) 650 mL brown bottle from DiCarlo’s, Mundelein, IL. November 2004. 4.8% ABV. Poured deep golden yellow with small white head. Soft carbonation. Sweet malt aroma. Light-to-medium bodied that starts dry with light malt sweetness and nutty corn flavor. Finished dry with light hop bitterness. Crisp and refreshing drinkable lager. Despite the fact that this is an old beer, no oxidation products were detected. This is a good lager.

Lion Lager is sparkling and yellow with a fluffy, bubbly white head that leaves a bubble ring. The aroma is faint and a bit fruity-- maybe apple. It is medium, maybe medium-light bodied and a bit gritty. The flavor is grainy and mellow. It has a nice bitterness that comes off as grass or hay. It’s refreshing and it was a great pick to session outside in the heat on a late July day.

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.

Hard to distinguish from many foreign lagers. Same graininess. Not quite as tastey as Tusker, from Kenya.

Nutty, doughy aroma. Very pale gold with white head. Sweet, not very hoppy, slightly vinegary. Medium to thin palate.

I never rate lagers too highly, this one could do with a little more in the flavour department and the slight apple aroma was a little light on. However it has a great soft palate, lasting carbonation, balanced sweetness. Just could do with a bit more flavour to get stuck into.

(33cl bottle) Small off-white head, clear apple juice body. Aroma is medium sweet, bread, light grassy, apple. Taste is medium sweet, grassy, bread, light apple. Light body, some acidity, crispness. Solid beer for what it is.