Lion Stout

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

Serve in Snifter, Tulip

Black color, brown head. Light chocolate and a little roast in the nose. Sweet malt, licorice and a shot of alcohol in the body. Roasty and nicely balanced. This is a great stout, I expected it to be too sweet, like other lion stouts (Royal Extra), but this was complex and tastey. Good stuff.

UPDATED: NOV 2, 2010 Dark brown with a fizzy head that doesn’t last that long, it looks a little like Coca Cola. Strong aroma dominated by coffee with a hint of chocolate and caramel. Strong alcohol content but that’s hardly noticable in a flavour dominated by coffee as well as roasted malt and chocolate. Slightly bitter aftertatse. This is an excellent beer, complex and fully-flavoured.

Overall a good stout. It reminded me a lot of my first (and probably most successful) foray into homebrewing. Chewy and very smooth. This is not a dry stout, it was fairly sweet. 8% alcohol was imperceptible. A great beer for the price!

pruny, mocha aromas, classic stout appearance, rich and roasted prune-like flavours developing into a bitter chocolate finish. In Sri Lanka this is sometimes laced with the local "arrack", a spirit made from coconuts. Every brewery in Sri Lanka makes a stout, I don't think there are any other countries that can say that.

Beutiful dark colour. The aroma has hints of smoke, chocolate, coffee. The flavour has hints of caramel, chocolate, coffee, smoke. Full-bodied but still light. Very nice smoothness.

Very drinkable and very missleading considering its big 8 per cent strength.Liquorice and fruit dominate but the overall taste is complex.It is hard to decide what is the dominant taste but this is truely a great stout.If you dont normally drink stouts please give this one a try-if you do then search this one out, its a winner.

UPDATED: SEP 10, 2006 This is my first beer from Sri lanka. The stout was a perfect one to try. The head poured to a tan and the color was a deep ebony.This is a good one. The aroma was inviting and of nuts and coffee. The stout had a medium body with delicious malts flavors. This was a special experience.

What a joy to select a beer because of it representing a different country to sample, and it being something other than a skunky international-style lager. This beer deserves a ’10’ for appearance--poured ungently, a unique and gorgeous type of cascading followed, leaving a caramel colored lace head, mostly diminishing after five minutes. Dark as a winter’s moonless night. I could sense some alcohol in an otherwise understated and malty aroma, but that was mostly absent from a relatively (but not supremely) complex mix of smoke, coffee, and bitter chocolate (the smoke was the strongest). Michael Jackson’s endorsement (on the bottle label) of this as a liquor-like beer is perhaps charitable, in that it might also be interpreted as having fleeting moments of medicinal-like flavors--a slight flaw on an otherwise enjoyable beer, one worth seeking out.