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Lion Stout

Percentile
98
overall
Brewed by Lion Brewery (Ceylon)
Style: Foreign Stout

Nuwara Eliya & Biyagama, Sri Lanka

bottled
common

on tap
available

Broad Distribution
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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
11423.81/5.03.81/5.08%98.9Snifter, Tulip
Commercial Description:
The 8.0 per cent abv, bottle conditioned beer is brewed from British, Czech and Danish malts with Styrian hops and an English yeast strain. All the ingredients are transported along precarious roads to the brewery located 3,500 feet above sea level.
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 fidel (913), Livermore, California, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/104/515/20
Jul 16, 2008  
Dark brown almost black, mild almost simple, smooth, malty, chocolate, with a little dark fruits.


 Joakgust (321), Stockholm, Sweden
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/104/516/20
Jul 16, 2008  
Dark brown almost black beer with a brown head. Aroma is very sweet with strong notes of roasted malts and dried fruits, prunes being the most obvious. Flavor is also very sweet and with heavy chocolate and roasted malts notes. Very enjoyable!


 janir (215), Oulu, Finland
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/516/20
Jul 16, 2008  
Color is black. Medium head is brown and lacy. Delicate dry aroma: chocolate, roasted malts. Very much coffee in the flavor. Also roasted malts and chocolate. Maybe some ashyness as well. Palate is full-bodied and smoothly carbonated.


 Palidor19 (1761), Brandon, Florida, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/57/103/515/20
Jul 16, 2008  
A true solid stout, its got a nice balance but not overpowering tastes of malts, cocoa and some mild fruit. I this is really enjoyable. magazine ads says this beer works great with spicy food, I have to make sure to try it.


chops (60), Brantford, Ontario, Canada
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/58/104/515/20
Jul 14, 2008  
A great looking beer. Dark chocolate and coffee flavors. My best rated stout so far! (but the only one)


BorksBabe (81), Tampa, Florida, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/105/57/104/515/20
Jul 6, 2008  
Aroma is of mocha, carmel, and some molasses. Very dark brown with a thinning brown head. Nice flavor- chocolatey with a hint of hops and coffee. Smooth to the palate. Overall a nice stout! I can see why it is 97%!


 Heathen (795), Riverside, New Jersey, USA
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
10/104/58/104/517/20
Jul 6, 2008  
THOUGHTS: Well, apparently Sri Lankan beer rocks! I always thought this was the Lion beer from Jamaica. This is great. Hid alcohol well too. A nice stout that amazingly isn’t too heavy to drink in summer’s heat. I still haven’t met a foreign stout I didn’t like. This is a little smokier than the others, so it’s different in some ways, but similar in the best ways to the other great foreign stouts. I want more but only bought a single bottle. TECHNICAL: Bottle. Poured a dark brown that was opaque black in the glass with a small, tan head that fully diminished but left good lacing. The aroma was roasted, chocolate, cocoa and mild coffee malts, smoke soy sauce, a little salt, and tobacco. There was more and more smokey soy as it warmed. The initial flavor was lightly sweet, bitter and a little salty; while the finish was moderately sweet, lightly acidic and bitter, and somewhat salty with an average duration. There was hot cocoa powder, some smokiness, then some coffee and roasted malt. The medium body was oily with fizzy carbonation and a light astringent finish.


 nick76 (2645), Tampa, Florida, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/103/511/20
Jul 2, 2008    Updated: Jul 7, 2008
The aroma is sweet with some off aroma but it’s not so strong as to make it undrinkable. There is also roasted malt, coffee, and chocolate. The appearance is dark brown with a small tan head. The flavor is like the aroma. The palate is average. I am not one of those that think this is a great stout but it’s decent.



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