Lion Stout
Lion Brewery (Sri Lanka) in Biyagama, Western Province, Sri Lanka 🇱🇰
Stout - Tropical Regular|
Score
7.38
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The dark caramel, large dense headed brew, with its 8.8% alcoholic content, is unique due to its sweet notes of chocolate and coffee interspersed into a foundation of dark roasted barley. Symbolic black to denote leadership, power, focus and strength, is dominant in the labeling as the lion journeys in the twilight unafraid, unbowed and unchallenged.
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8.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9.5
330ml bottle - Pours a pitch black with mahogany hues and a thick tan head that recedes into a thin froth, but still leaves decent lacing. Nose is ripe dark fruits, liquorice, coffee and roasted malts. Taste is cocoa, roasted malt, dried fruit and burnt brown sugar. A mellow light coffee finishes it out. Nice creamy mouth feel. The ABV is hidden perfectly. Good stout. A good one for beer 700.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Feb 2013
at 11:34
8.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Flaske fra hytta, delt med Egil under brygging av bryllupsøl, jan-12: silkemyk aroma av mild kaffe, kokos og litt vanilje. Smaken er like silkebløt, og de 8,8 vitaminenhetene merkes først i magen. En fantastisk stout, skjønner godt at MJ anså denne som et øl i verdensklasse. Ingen skarpe kanter noen steder, myk som en kjærtegnende ungpikehånd.
Tried
on 19 Jan 2013
at 11:36
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
It pours a dark brown and yields a black body with a nice offf-white two inch head that slowly dies to a half inch and stays for most of the brew. Some really nice spider web lacing glazes the sides of the pint glass and leaving some nice rings. The smell is based around the cocoa, nuts, coffee and malts. The taste is basically the same adding a bit of nice roastiness and letting the alcohol come slightly in as it warms. The sweetness becomes a bit subdued. The palate is about a medium with nothing harsh on the tongue and comes across very smooth, slightly silky. Overall, I like it, and with the price, I would definitely come back to it.
Tried
on 12 Jan 2013
at 12:39
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
From Sinha Stout label bought at LCBO Ottawa. Tasted 2 times: Feb 12 and Jan 13. Aroma: Discreet accents of mild chocolate and coffee with notes of nuts and vegetable juice??? Nose is not sticking out much. Visual: Dual-color beige and brown creamy head over pitch black color. Large and long lasting, this head leaves a beautiful lacing. Taste: Attack is smooth with chocolate and coffee accents and a roasted bitterness as finish. A slight acidity accompanied with notes of lemon is developing after. Mild chocolate is holding the course throughout. Finish is long and acid with slight notes of caramel and coffee. Body is light to medium and texture is somewhere between watery and oily. Alcohol has a very smooth feel for an 8.8%. Good beer, but the flavors are missing complexity and variety.
Tried
on 05 Jan 2013
at 20:07
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Black colour with a creamy beige head. Nice lacing. Rich but well balanced sweet aroma. Chocolate, roasted malt and fruity notes. Moderate carbonation. Full body and a bit sweet. Well hidden alcohol. Oily texture. Well balanced flavour withroasted malt, mocca and fruity notes. Nice stout and my country #80.
[Bottle at The Brauhaus in Edinburgh, Scotland]
[Bottle at The Brauhaus in Edinburgh, Scotland]
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Nov 2012
at 07:57
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
330 ml bottle into tulip glass, bottled on 6/9/2011. Pours pitch black color with a nice 2 finger dense mocha head with fantastic retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Some nice soapy lacing clings to the glass. Aromas of raisin, apple, dark chocolate, roasted malt, caramel, molasses, herbal, light char, coffee, and earthiness. Nice aromas with good strength and balance; quite a bit on the fruity side. Taste of big dark chocolate, roasted malt, char, caramel, raisin, molasses, apple, light coffee, herbal, and earthiness. Fair amount of herbal bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of dark chocolate, roasted malt, caramel, molasses, light fruit, and herbal on the finish for a good bit. Good balance of roasted flavors with light herbal hoppiness; slight amount of cloying flavors on the finish. Medium carbonation and medium-full body; with a creamy, chalky, and slick mouthfeel that is good. Alcohol is very well hidden with only a small warming present on the finish. Overall this is a good foreign stout. Some nice robust roasted flavors with good complexity; quite smooth to sip on. A bit cloying at times, but is a nice sipper.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Nov 2012
at 21:02
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
33cl bottle. Black with a huge lightbrown head. Chocolate aroma, with some roasted and licorice sence. Quite sweet taste with chocolate and more coffee sence. Quite nice, the alc is well hidden with nice taste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Sep 2012
at 13:23