3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
330ml bottle. Onyx pour with a heavy beige head that lasts and leaves a solid lace. Hmm...very different on the nose. The initial impression is very vegetal. Under that there’s the obligatory roasted notes with a touch of molasses and licorice. The odd vegetation is almost absent on the palate and there’s a lot more molasses and licorice there with the roasted coffee flavours. Finishes slightly bitter but there’s a sweetness there as well. The mouthfeel is a little light too.
4.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 19/20
Lion Stout has an extraordinarily thick, creamy, beige head and a black appearance (light reddish-brown around the edges). The aroma is of dark-roasted malt, licorice, and confectionery sugar. Taste is of licorice, dark-roasted malt, dark chocolate, dark coffee, cream, brandy wine, and grain. The mouthfeel is thick and syrupy, and Lion Stout finishes heavy, sweet, syrupy, and awesomely delicious. Overall, this is one of the best beers I have every had the pleasure to drink. I rate it about as high as one could rate a beer. Terrific! RJT
4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
330ml bottle served cellar cool in a snifter. Mighty concentration of coffee mocha licquorice flavours in a drier more biscuity stout than I expected. Every sip was a mouth-filling pleasure. An Uber-stout.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
330ml bottle pours almost black in color with almost 2 fingers of creamy beige head that leaves some nice lacing on the glass. Aroma is roasted malts and chocolate with hints of coffee. Taste is roasted malt bitterness with some hop bitterness underneath, balanced with some chocolate and other malt sweetness. Medium to heavy bodied and lightly carbonated. This is a surprisingly nice stout, very well done.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
toast, roasty, bread, black, brown foam, medium sweetness, lightly bitter, light body, oily feel, soft carbonation, long finish,
4.3 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
cereal, chocolate, herbs, basement aromas, barnyard, smoke, ginger, rotten eggs, bubblegum, brown, sparkling, brown foam, rocky head, heavy cloying sweetness, medium bitterness, lightly sour, umami, full body, creamy, oily feel, astringent, long finish,
4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Impressive for an International stout. Very roasty, very big on the mocha notes. Alot of coffe. Alot of chocolate.
Pours perfectly black with two fingers of cocoa colored head.
This is great!
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 15/20
11.2 ounce bottle purchased over a year ago at Sun Devil Liquors in Phoenix. Pours quite black but with a bit of brownish shades and two fingers of mocha-colored foam. Aroma of hard roasted and lightly smoky malts, creamy chocolate, and a bit of vanilla. Flavor of creamy milk chocolate, charred malts, and some hints of dark fruit. Nice moderate level of sweetness. This has a lovely soft and creamy mouthfeel. The significant ABV is quite well concealed. A nice stout. (1383, 654)
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