Lion Stout

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

Serve in Snifter, Tulip

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This bottled brew poured a very large sized head of foamy fine to medium sized long lasting dark brown colored bubbles that left behind a fair lacing. The body was a black as midnight opaque dark black color with no hop of seeing any carbonation on it. The aroma was a pleasant dark malt dough one. The mouth feel was initially tingly and finished with a malty hop bite that smoothened a short time later. The flavor was full of dark malts mild coffee molasses and hops.

Black with a thick tan head, nice lacing. Burnt/toasted malt aroma with coffee. Full bodied and lightly carbonated. Good stout taste is mildly sweet with flavors of coffee and blackened malts. A pretty decent beer here. 81605

Tar coloring with thin tan head. Smells like they roasted a few tons of malt for each bottle. Strange bitter taste to it. Surprisingly thin for all its other flavor. Tasty!

Good solid stout - how does Sri Lanka (Ceylon) do it? Starts out sweet and finishes with a pleasant bitterness. Heavy, thick pour with black as night appearance - favorite stout to date.

Bottle pours pitch black, only a sliver of light gets through, large tannish frothy head, with fantastic lacing.   Dark chocolate aroma, slightly dry and chalky, with hints of coffee and heavily roasted malts.   Smells tasty!   Roasted malt mikly goodness, with a smidgen of cocoa and coffee beans.   Good body, but somewhat medium mouthfeel.   Roasty finish, lingering malts, very subtle coffee bean and cocoa flavor.   Very minor apple skin on the aftertaste.   Tasty!

Average brown creamy head that mostly lasted. Dark brown color. Good lacing. Chocolate, coffee, liquorish, dry fruit. Medium bodied with a soft carbonation. Heavy sweet malty flavor. Not much bitterness. Sweet finish. Very sweet for a foreign stout.

Bottle. Pours almost black with a thick light brown head. Smoked meaty flavours. Flavours are smoked meat, softened by caramel and chocolate. OveralI quite sweet. must admit I had low expectations, but this beer was a pleasant surprise indeed (though you would not be drinking buckets of it).

Bottled. Opaque black. Sweet, malty and roasted aroma with rye and apple. Flavor is full and sweet with coffee as well as chocolade. Salty licorice in the finish. Tasty, calls for more bitterness though.

Can. Yes, it comes in a can now too. Pours the darkest brune almost completely black with ruby cola highlights topped by a massive, mocha brown head that sticks around with excellent retention. Not much lace. Aroma of raisins, milk chocolate, roasted malt, burnt cherries. Taste is sweet raisins, roasted malt, burnt wood, light olives. Suddy, dry, palate. Will need to retry out of the bottle.

Trade from Footbalm - Thanks! Dark brown, tan head. Woodsy, earthy (mushrooms?) aroma. First flavors are initially spicy, and peppery, with a hint of burnt toast and tar. Crisp hop finish. Thin for a stout, but it fits with the beer. Nice and even kind of refreshing.