3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle. Nice dark colour with a medium fully lasting brownish head. Aroma dominated by coffee and malts. Slightly bitter finish, but a great stout.
4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
In the big bottle. Dark black in color with a brown head. This is an AWESOME stout! Sweet, but not too sweet. Dry, but not too dry. Great chocolate and roasted malts. Perfectly balanced for a smooth palate.
4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
UPDATED: FEB 18, 2005 2003 Bottle. Dark black, oily and viscous and quite opaque. The head on this thing dosent go away. It just seems to be glued on to the top. It’s creamy, sticky and medium tan/beige. Aroma is initially strong of fruit esters, mainly banana with something like oats and sweet chocolate coming on quickly. Light hops mix in and it gets more roasty. The flavor is equally impressive. Lots of sweet sugary malt, mostly chocolate but has a nice english toasted malt appeal, somewhat reminiscent of Sam Smith’s Imperial Stout. Flavor of sweet, chocolatey malt continues to stay strong. Mouthfeel is silky with a slight touch of grit that is pleasing. Tastes of soft black fruit faintly. Finishes lightly bitter, somewhat drier and has a good flavor of hazlenut on the aftertaste. Quite sweet and a bit too much alcohol apparency to give it a perfect on the palate, but it still has a wonderful texture. 8/5/9/4/17
Rerate<i/> Bottle at Bukowski’s Tavern, Boston. After preaching to my friend how great this beer was, and that he should definitely try it, it was quite disappointing when we actually did get it. Not bad, of course, but much less full and flavorful than I recall. Some smoke and ash seems to work against the whole experience, creating some lightly astringent notes on the end with a strange sourness, that I can’t attribute to yeast (otherwise I would like it). 7/5/7/3/15
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Big head, had to pour carefully. Aroma is plums, prunes, candied raisins, some malt, and a touch of alcohol. Flavor is sour stout with a dry finish.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
bottle thanks to mmm///beer. black pour with a big caramel head. huge notes of chocolate and roasted malts with alcohol in the back. nice thickness and a very unique fruity chocolate flavor with a slight alcohol finish.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
UPDATED: APR 28, 2008 Bottle. Big frothy light brown head. Clear near-black body with a red glow. Smells bready and malty; on the sweet side with a low hop level. Taste is malty and sweet. Also with some some pleasant tones of licorice, dark chocolate and fruit (ripe pears, plums and dried dates). Healthy body. Light sticky mouthfeel. Sugar and light bitterness in the finish.
4.9 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 20/20
330 ml bottle, bought at Selfridge’s, London. Label says for some reason "Lion Dark Beer" in stead of "Lion Stout", but there’s no doubt that this is the very same beer. Otherwise the label is exactly the same, so is the ABV and the characteristics of the beer. Pitch black colour, impenetrable for light. Large and thick brown head. A real beauty! Excellent aroma of various types of wood, tar, leather, tobacco. Full and rich flavour where the roastiness and hops are perfectly balanced with the velvety sweetness. Extremely drinkable. It’s debatable whether "the perfect stout" exists, but the Lion must be pretty close!
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Pitch black, very tall fine head. Light aroma, burnt well, coffee, roasted malt, something smoked in there too. Like beef jerky. Quite smokey, slightly roasted flavor. Sweet, a bit of roasted bitterness, and dry roasted malt, smoke, and a bit of hops in the finish. This is really good, unlike any other stout I have tried. Very nice, strong, sweet, smoky stout. A little too sweet, is my only complaint.
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