Lion Stout

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

Serve in Snifter, Tulip

12 ounce bottle from Whole Foods Market in Charlottesville, VA. Pours a very dark reddish tinted brown. Huge frothy head, good retention and lacing. Aroma is fruity with roasted malt notes. Taste is roasted malts and lots of caramel. Some slight nutty notes as well. Full bodied.

UPDATED: OCT 12, 2008 First rating
Black and strong. Very good taste, almost like a meal when you drink it. No alcohol in the taste, typical stoput like smell. Some yeast sediment in the bottom. This one I can really recommend to people who likes stout!
8/5/9/5/17=4.4

Rerate
(33 cl bottle from Systembolaget, thanks to deft!)
BB Dec 2008
On October 11, 2008
Pitch black color, light brown head. Acidic and buttery, strawberry yoghurt scent, wierd. Some smoke, alcohol and roasted also. Salty, rosted, grainy, dry, coffee taste. Dry mouthfeel. Medium bitterness. Not sure it’s quite OK this bottle.
6/4/7/3/13=3.3

MEdium way rating, since I think my first is probably too high and my seconde might be a faulty bottle: 7/4/7/4/15=3.7

After months of teasing ’maybe next week’ promises, Nav finally conjured the sought-after Lion from his cricket bag. And it was worth the wait. Glugs inkily into the snifter an impenetrable pitch, creamily heaped cappuccino suds receding to a slick. A dribble-inducing waft of black cherry, soy, chocolate liqueur, malt whiskey, Marmite, resiny hop spice and charred barrelwood arises. This is a special beer before you’ve even tasted it. Mouth is drinking chocolate-thick, deep, bittersweet and satisfying, with a chocolate complexity that is one moment powdery and sweet, the next packed with 80% cocoa bitterness. Creamily smooth but warmingly boozy. Lingering tobacco, charcoal and Marmite afters. Big, bittersweet, creamy and dangerous. I’m not being greedy but I really need a crate of 625ml bottles to get to the bottom of this beer.

Gotta love the pic of Michael Jackson on the side of the six pack. Poured with a fairly large tan head. Some ruby highlights show up when held to light. Aroma is sweat socks and day old coffee. Couldn’t get much else in smells. Awful aroma. The mouthfeel is slick with a light playfulness, suprising for the style. Also, plenty of carbonation. The taste has some sugar sweetened coffee. I hate to say it, but I hate sweet coffee. Also a hint of tobacco and some bourbon. This is decent, but nothing to get excited about.

Sixth beer during Cellar’s Wine & Spirits Friday beer tasting of "Lawn Mower Beers." Pours an opaque dark brown brew with a thick tan head. The thick head slowly diminishes and leaves a nice lacing. Aroma of milk chocolate, plums, raisins, mocha and toasted malt. Flavor is smooth, a little citrus and full bodied. Finish is sweet, creamy and nice hop bitterness.

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.

Justifiably famous, this fruit and nut concoction is made from the waters of Lovers Leap waterfall 7,000 feet above sea level. The fruits are dark but lively - blackcurrant and prune, with tawny port overtones. The nuts are almond and pistachio. This is a complex and flavoursome beer which offers something new with each mouthful. Stouts are not to everyone’s taste, but this is mellow enough to be an excellent introduction. As a lover of dark brews this gets full marks from me.

Bottle. Pours very dark brown with a long lasting brown/grey head. Aroma is roasted malts, tobacco and a little alcohol. Flavour is full of roastiness and a great warmth. Tobacco, biscuits and caramel is present as well. Good creamy mouthfeel.