Lion Brewery (Sri Lanka) Lion Stout

Lion Stout

 

Lion Brewery (Sri Lanka) in Biyagama, Western Province, Sri Lanka 🇱🇰

  Stout - Tropical Regular
Score
7.38
ABV: 8.8% IBU: 55 Ticks: 287
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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5.6/10 — Appearance 4 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
From Mar 2007

Pours from 625ml bottle(room temp) a pitch black with a pretty large head of foam that shrinks slowly and then completely dissipates. There's some lacing present with each new pour but that too disappears after sitting in the glass for a while.

The smell is of roasted malt but it's pretty light. Not much going on for me as far as the nose goes.

The taste has coffee, chocolate, roasted malt and...right near the finish, a hot cocoa flavour but they are all on the light side and make for a very smooth brew overall; I can't believe it's 8%abv, it's *that* smooth and easy drinking but I know better than to think that the alcohol won't catch up to me so I'm only taking small sips.

Further sips and and nothing really changes. I note that the body on this one is on the thin side though the taste never does lean towards the watery side. It's good. I'm glad I got to try it but...it's not something I'd seek out again.
Tried from Bottle on 20 Oct 2017 at 10:40

7/10
Tried on 30 Aug 2017 at 14:53

7.4/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Bottle thanks to iphone. Pours out black topped with a tan head. Nose is ash roast malts some chocolate sweetness. Taste is more of the chocolate roast malts.
Tried from Bottle on 28 Jul 2017 at 01:06

8/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
F: thin, tanned, quick gone. C: dark, opaque. A: dark malt, roasted tones, chocolate, coffee, cocoa, sweet red fruits, bit of vinous. T: malty, chocolate, cocoa, bit of coffee, bit of sweet lactic tones, vanilla, full body, low carbonation, really nice, enjoyed, 33cl bottle as from Auchan Market in Luxembourg.
Tried from Bottle on 19 Jun 2017 at 14:11

7.5/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8
0.33 l bottle from ’Bier & Beer’, best before December 2018. Black with a thin, frothy, slowly diminishing, beige head. Sweetish-malty, just slightly roasty and a bit fruity aroma of dark chocolate, raisins, prunes and mocca. Rather sweet, malty, slightly roasty and a bit fruity taste of dark chocolate, mocca, praline, hazelnut, raisins and prunes, followed by a medium long, moderately roasty-bitter, slightly earthy-dry finish. Medium body, slightly creamy mouthfeel, very soft carbonation. Almost a bit thin for that abv, but all in all worth its merits, a true classic.
Tried from Bottle on 13 Jun 2017 at 15:04

8.2/10 — Appearance 10 Aroma 6 Flavor 9 Texture 10 Overall 8
Bottle from Beers of Europe, drunk at home. Dark purplish black with a small foamy tan head. Blackberry and raw sugarcane in the aroma. Sweet, sweet taste with malts that are roasted to hell and back but never tastes burned. Smoky chocolate and plum swirls around in my mouth. Long finish with a silky mouthfeel. Tobacco and slivovitz in the aftertaste. Wow.
Tried from Bottle on 08 Jun 2017 at 15:14

8/10
Pairs beautifully with kottu roti!!
Tried on 25 Mar 2017 at 00:49

6.9/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
17-02-17 // bottle at home. Pours a deep bronw black beer with a solid beige head. Taste is sweet malty, milk chocolate, cocoa, light coffee. Quite nice.
Tried from Bottle on 17 Feb 2017 at 17:00

10/10 — Appearance 10 Aroma 10 Flavor 10 Texture 10 Overall 10
Ce lion est un véritable jaguar. En effet cette stout de la brasserie Lion se démarque par ses lignes épurées, distinguées mais racées, qui peuvent se comparer aux lignes des plus belles sportives de luxe et plus particulièrement à une Jaguar. Et sans être ni d’une complexité ni d’une corpulence extraordinaire, sa ligne gustative, autour du café est à la fois d’une telle pureté, d’une telle finesse et d’une telle précision qu’elle rentre aisément dans la catégorie des grandes bières. Sorti de son écrin, notre stout est d’un noir intense (EBC aux alentours de 79) surmontée d’une mousse brune nappant tout juste la bière. Le nez est à la fois intense et raffiné. Le café, pur, se mélange subtilement aux arômes de prune relevés d’une pointe de cognac. De toute beauté! L’attaque nous permet de découvrir la base principale de ce Lion : des arômes de café grand cru, expresso, secs et intenses, à la fois simples et gracieux. La seconde bouche gagne en rondeur en laissant apparaître le chocolat, se parant subtilement de notes de fruits des bois pour conférer une très belle profondeur aux arômes. L’arrière bouche continue quant à lui sur le café, fil conducteur de notre dégustation. D’ailleurs celui-ci reprendra les devants en troisième bouche, poussé par l’amertume, peu intense mais permettant de relever de façon juste les arômes avant d’arriver au final, de grande classe, très long où le cognac se marie de façon somptueuse au café pour une alliance, classieuse, riche et intense. L’équilibre sucre, alcool (8,8 % Abv) malt et houblon est simplement parfait. Une stout que tout zythologue doit avoir dégusté. Ce lion est d’une grande classe.
Tried on 10 Feb 2017 at 05:56

3.5/10
Tried from Bottle on 02 Feb 2017 at 23:20