Lion Stout

Brewed by Lion Brewery (Sri Lanka)
Style: Foreign Stout
Biyagama, Sri Lanka

Serve in Snifter, Tulip

bottle thanks to mmm/beer. Pours black with a large tan head but little lacing. Smell is funky phenol, burnt malt and soy. taste is phenol and malt with no coffee or chocolate noticeable. Mouthfeel is medium-to-thin and disappointing.

Black with tan head. Coffee aroma. Roasted malt taste, coffee and cocoa flavors. Kind of bubbly for stout I like my stouts to be a little creamer but still a nice beer.

Pours a syruppy black from the bottle with a soapy tan head of foam. Plenty of molasses and faint rope on the nose with a rich mouthfeel. Flavors of hazelnut, dark cocoa, and sweet malts in the taste. Balanced and highly drinkable.

UPDATED: AUG 26, 2008 Courtesy of Degarth. Pours deep darkness with thin mocha head. The mild aroma has fruity esters, roasty malts and a level of burnt maltiness. The taste starts with roasty to burnt malts followed by sweet molasses, some chocolate malts and licorice. The mix works well and trends into the finish and leaves a malty to burnt maltiness into the after taste. Very nice.

Bottle. Nice, dark stout with tan, creamy head that did not explode out of the glass. Coffee and roasted malts. Felt smooth and creamy. Great initial flavor, but there was a thin, but decidedly metallic after taste. This faded as I drank it, but the memory was still there. Too bad as it was a very good stout up until that point.

Bottle thanks to Linus_Stick. Pours a a pure black body with red colors shining through when light flows in. A medium light brown head. The aroma is really nice; brown sugar, tons of roasted malts, vanilla, coffee, alcohol and some moist soil. The taste is also very awesome; a very smooth roasted malt, plums, vanilla, dry coffee, a tiny tart aspect too. Very good brew. The mouthfeel is creamy and very full. Thanks Alan.

Pours into my 25cl tulip glass with a dense, creamy, initially four-finger thick, deeply brown stained, full tan colored head. The beer is a full black color that shows just a flash of ruby to it when held up directly to the light. Weird, the aroma is quite weird; buttery, but with an almost chemical undercurrent. What is weird is that this might not be diacetyl, this is the most likely culprit, but for some reason it just seems a bit different than your typical diacetyl signature. Buttered popcorn aromas clearly dominate, but there is just a hint of roast character noticeable towards the finish.

Quite sweet with a fairly agreeable flavor until the finish which has a phenolic, chemical edge to it. The body has a nice fullness to it as well as a nice soft, chocolate tasting, roast grain flavor to it. That strange buttery note is not nearly as noticeable in the flavor, but the chemical note still manages to mute my enjoyment of this beer pretty significantly.

This is newly arrived in Arizona, so I don’t understand why this is so bad; and to be honest the flavors of this beer seem pretty fresh, it is just that there are also some significantly off components to this beer as well.

Impressive brew: as advertised, strong aromas of malted milk chocolate shake with some dark fruits like raisin and prunes, some roasted coffee also, appearance is black in the middle with some browning on the edges, good solid body, flavor is outstanding and in balance, not too sweet and not too roasted, very wine like notes to the senses, creamy body and slight bittering finish, will definately add to my list of drink again beers.