Dragon Stout
Desnoes and Geddes in Kingston, Jamaica 🇯🇲
Stout - Tropical Regular|
Score
6.17
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Ingredients: Black malt; corn syrup; caramel malt; and hop extract. Priming sugar used when bottling.
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6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
284ml bottle from the restaurant at my condo in Montego Bay. The aroma is liquorice bitter, caramel. The flavour is moderate liquorice bitter, light sweet, with a smooth, rich, roasty, liquorice bitter, light saccharine sugar, liquorice bitter palate. Over medium bodied with average to soft carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 May 2026
at 01:38
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5.5
Flavor 5.5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Deep brown with a finger of tan head. Medium to thin body. Sweet caramel, dark malts, chocolate, a faint pretense of roasted malt. Finish is caramel and sweet. Mid at best.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Mar 2026
at 13:37
6/10
Bought from local supermarket, drank at home. Decent stout
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jan 2026
at 19:57
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 5
Overall 6
Black, tan fast fading head. Nose of faint roast and light alcohol. Medium lactose sweetness, lightly roasted. Black licorice notes
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Aug 2025
at 22:52
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle from Sainsbury's, Wycombe. Deep mahogany with a beige to tan head. Rich chocolate up front, then muscovado sugar, a touch of liquorice and wood and some spice. After an excellent start it faded a little and felt a little thin for the strength, but I still thoroughly enjoyed it. Impressive stuff considering the very low price point (think it was only £1.70) - this is better than many craft beers of two or three times the price. Also liked that it was sold in a smaller size bottle (284ml) - I'd like to see more strong beers sold in smaller volume cans/bottles like this, I really don't need or want 440ml of triple IPAs and big imperial stouts.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Sainsbury's (Various locations)
on 06 Aug 2025
at 17:54
6.5/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jun 2025
at 22:00
5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4
Bottled. Black. Not so great. Way too sweet and just doesn’t work. Asian stouts are way better. and they’re not great.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 May 2025
at 00:50
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Old rating from 2014 - 284ml bottle, gift from friends. Pours black with a beige creamy head. Aromas & tastes of molasses, brown sugar, chocolate, coffee, black currant & liquorice. Moderate body. Barely carbonated. Sweet finish
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Apr 2025
at 09:50
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Not had much experience with this style but comparing it to reg. stouts is was very good. Slightly sweet but not as sweet as one would think. Nice dark malt flavors. Small head and slight lace. Nice dark color.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Mar 2025
at 05:10
5.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 10
Overall 3.5
Bottle at the Airbnb from this Carefour that’s been providing me with new country ticks and ‘1001 beers…’ all week. Pours black with a quickly dissipating beige head. Nose is dark malts and syrupy sweetness. Taste is pretty similar, some malt notes, but it’s mainly syrup and molasses. It’s rather sweet, almost overwhelmingly so. Closes with a sugary sweet finish, it’s got a ligh to medium body and soft carbonation. Not terrible but quite syrupy and sweet.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Mar 2025
at 12:17