Lion Stout

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

Serve in Snifter, Tulip

Deep black colour with slight ruby highlights and a nice tan head. Thick and sweet aroma with a hint of earthy smokiness in the background. Creamy mouthfeel, and initial flavours of malt, coffee and vanilla giving way to a bitter finish that holds notes of cinnamon, clove and cardamom. Beautiful stuff - thanks to mr_kimchee for sharing this one!

I enjoyed this Stout every bit as much as Samuel Smith’s Imperial, if not more. An excellent sweet stout which I have no problem drinking more than one of in a sitting

Bottle. Pours a deep dark brown with a large thick and deep brown head. Aroma is full of dark roasty malts, vanilla notes, chocolatey, and fruity. Taste is lotsa sweet chocolate and roasty malt flavors.....raisins and plums...plus some latent bitter flavors. Mouthfeel is nice and creamy with a full body. Finish is nicely bitter and slightly fruity also. Better than anticipated....tasty!.

Deep dark black, with thick brown head, disappating quickly. Sweet choclate malt, with some banana, cherry, alcohol, coffee, tootsie roll and some spice. Nice prickle, burnt toast, dry lingering finish, front end sweet, and overall very rich! Great Beer

UPDATED: AUG 5, 2006 Amazing! Sri Lanka! Man, the only thing out of Sri Lanka i ever liked had i short skirt on! But this dark STRONG shit is right on. This may be the BEST Stout today! Congrats!

Have to start by thanking Mark Lightfoot from the International Beer shop, W. Leederville, for recommending this gem. Quite easily the best Foreign Extra Stout I have tasted, and possibly ever will!! Poured into a stumpy tulip, a large dense, light brown head formed, stuck firmly to the side of the glass, and webbed like paint down the sides. Black and completely opaque body with only a little yeast that settled out on the bottom. Intense roasted malt nose, quite sweet and treacly, with wafts of dark chocolate, molasses, coffee grains and light sherry notes (don’t know the age of the bottle). An underlying alcohol spice seemed to compliment the other aromas, and it all came together like a dark, winter pudding dessert and travelled straight through into the mouth. Big in body, lightly carbonated and smooth as silk across the tongue, it finished off with a long warming alcohol and malt swallow, that just hit all the right buttons. Flavours of burnt sweet sugars, milk and dark chocolate, roasted coffee beans, plums and other dark fruits and a hint of earthy spices, seemed balanced to perfection and all in unison to complete this wonderful beer. Big in flavour, smooth and creamy and well crafted. A wonderful Stout and one I am sure to hunt down again. Lovely!!!

625mL bottle. An opaque black pour with a HUGE creamy dark-tan head that leaves thick chunky lace. Aroma is full of chocolate and cocoa with some roasty malts, vanilla beans, caramel and hints of alcohol as it warms. Very thick and chewy and velvety smooth. Creamy milk chocolate starts off and is followed by some bitter chocolate and a sugary sweet, spicy graham crackeriness. A little smoke and woodiness are present too. Deceptively complex. Subtle bitter finish that’s a little dry. Alcohol is very well-hidden. Great stuff.

Reviewed 9/13/2009 (Bottle): Pours an extremely dark brown color body, huge head, light tan, very lasting, creamy. Roasty aroma, some espresso, maybe chocolate. Very good smelling. Creamy mouthfeel, coffee and chocolate flavors. Slight ashiness. A little boozy. Less hot as it warms up. Very good tasting.