Lion Stout

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

Serve in Snifter, Tulip

Black with lovely huge lasting head. Aroma is sweet with roasted malt, plums and liquerice notes. Flavor is sweet with roasted malt, smoke and chocolate.

Dark color, dark brown generous head. Deep coffee aroma; roasted malt; yeast. Smooth, good balance of sweetness and bitterness; malt, roasted malt, coffee; a very light acidity (high carbonation, maybe). Final not enough interesting, some sweetness, not too long.
A pleasant sweet stout.

UPDATED: JAN 17, 2009
Name: Lion Stout
Date: April 04, 2002
Mode: Bottle
Source: Ale Atlanta
Appearance: Black
Aroma: light aroma
Flavor: rich malt flavor, lots of sweetness, chocolate

Name: Lion Stout
Date: April 06, 2005
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting
Appearance: black with ruby edges, whispy tan head
Aroma: roasted malt aroma with a hint of chocolate
Body: creamy body
Flavor: rich chocolate flavor with a roasty finish
Overall: no essence of the 8% alcohol

Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 8/10; Overall: 15/20
Rating: 3.4/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **4

dense, rocky head. Sweet, fruity nose. Complex, malty - vanilla and coffee; creamy palate; light notes of raisins and plums. Exquisite.

Bottle. Black beer with dark beige head. Bitter dark burnt malts. Intense. Really nice, velvety with good burnt malt finish. Toasty, smokey, charcoal. Really rather nice.

A very dark stout with a medium head. Good tasting stout with chocolate and coffee undertones.

Bottle. Pours a black colour with a huge longlasting tan head. Sweet malty roasted aroma with some hints of chocolate. Sweet roasted malty flavor with some hints of coffee and chocolate. Warming malty finish.

62,5 cl. bottle: Black with a creamy brown head & lacings. Aroma is roasted malts & dark fruits (raisin). Chocolate, coffee & caramel roast. Medium, soft & smooth palate. Great!