Lion Stout

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

Serve in English pint, Snifter, Tulip

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12 oz. can pours an opaque dark brown/black with lasting tan head and some lacing. Smells of coffee, chocolate, and roasted malts. Aroma has all the usual suspects of a good stout mentioned above, plus noticeable dark fruits.Taste is sweet with a drier finish with some alcohol noticeable. Body is medium without too much carbonation. A very good, even great stout from a corner of the planet I’ll probably never visit in my lifetime. Thanks, Lion, for making this available in my neighborhood.

Poured a watery brown with a thick, frothy tan head. Aroma of sweet malt and heavy, alcoholic fruit. Flavour of dark chocolate and coffee over heavy berry fruit and malt. Sharp, slightly dry finish.

Bottle 0,625 l, ABV 8,8. Pours black brown, mocha lacing head. Aroma coffee, raw cacao beans, malts. Palate is lick oily thick, carbonation flat warming. Taste is sweet roasty malts, and dry edgy. Finish is sweet,, warm from ABV and has some roasty dry end. Overall pretty drinkable stout.

Bottle (330 ml) with the Sinha Stout sticker (8,8% abv). Thanks to czar for giving this bottle, much appreciated! Black with a medium quickly diminishing brown head and some lacing. Interesting aroma with notes of porto, roasted malt, chocolate and hints of caramel. Taste of chocolate, roasted malt and slight caramel notes. Slight bitterness. Dry finish. Slight warming alcohol. That’s a very good Foreign Stout. Nice complexity, good balance... and Sri Lanka tick!

Bottle. Pours opaque black with big tan head and lace. Big malt aromas atop of a nice floral earthy hop character. Malty aroma of chocolate, toast, raisin, licorice, coffee, burnt tofee and mocha. Medium body, milky malty mouthfeel - generous carbonation. Lingering malt character in balance with a light hop character and bitterness with a very refreshing finish. At 8% ABV booze not noticable.

Pours dark black with an inch thick foamy head that lingers a while. Aroma is chocolate, roasted malt, cream, and light fruit. Taste has lots of chocolate and fruit character. Very creamy. Thick mouthfeel. A good stout and worth checking out. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Pours black with a lasing tan head. Aroma of chocolate, coffee grounds, and a little alcohol. Taste is pretty standard stout - coffee, chocolate, roast. Finishes with an alcohol sting. A little thin on the tongue.

Pours dark and mysterious with a head that disappears quickly. Aroma is bitter chocolate and herbs and spices and also some bakery products, maybe pastries. Mouthfeel is thick and delicious, taste is more bakers chocolate and candied malt and some hop. The balance is unbelievable. If I were a smoker I would think this is the perfect pipe accompaniment. Finishes strong. Awesome.

Pours ink black with deliciously foamy chocolate head. Aroma is rich roast coffee with syrupy sweet chocolate. Flavour is very rich full-bodied stout, very sweet and velvety

Bottle: Thanks Soren: Medium airy but slow disappearing nutty beige tan light brown head on top of a deep dark almost complete black colored beer. Smell coal, coffee, smoked malts, hint of tar. Nice but just a little bit on the thin side. Taste smoke, coal, coffee, chocolate, tar, roasted barleys, roasted hay and grains. Light bitterness. Aftertaste is roasted grass, some coal hints and some herbal smoked hay ish tints. Low to medium carbo, soft light tingly mouthfeel, good medium body and a light watery bit thin (at first) texture. Very nice, lovely coal aromas and flavours!