Lion Brewery (Sri Lanka)
Commercial Brewery in Biyagama, Western Province, Sri Lanka 🇱🇰
Established in 1860
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Old rating. Bottle from Old Town. Poured into a shaker pint glass. Rich black color with a nice tan head. Decent lacing. Smells of cacao, prune, star anise, tobacco and coffee. Tastes the same with some vanilla and pepper present. Roasted malt flavor in there as well. Not as rich as some other stouts with an oily mouthfeel. Nice smooth finish though. Slightly boozy as it warms up. --- Beer merged from original tick of Lion Stout on 15 Jul 2018 at 21:41 - Score: 7. Original review text: Backlog
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Mar 2015
at 00:24
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Can 0,5l. Clear, pale golden colored beer. Decent malty aroma, very smooth flavor, light sweet malty, slightly bitter. Well brewed pale lager.
Tried
from Can
on 28 Feb 2015
at 14:32
3.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 2
Texture 4
Overall 2.5
Bottle. Drinking dec. 2011. 4.8 % version. Minimal white head. Aroma: grass and malt, taste: malty, slightly cardboard, fruits.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Feb 2015
at 05:00
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
New Beer Distributors, NYC: pours gold with white head. Aroma is sugar, corn, but nothing off. Taste is pretty sweet. Few off tastes. Not a bad lager. I think I would take this over bud.
Tried
on 01 Feb 2015
at 10:49
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Black with lasting, creamy head. Sweet malty aroma with some chocolatey notes. Taste is rich and smooth with flavours of dark malts, sugar and chocolate.
Tried
on 11 Jan 2015
at 12:54
2.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 2
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 2.5
Clear, light golden. Small white head. Malty, skunky, farty aroma. Sweetish, light bitter, grassy and grainy flavour. Light, watery finish.
Tried
on 09 Jan 2015
at 13:51
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Can @ Vinterslaget på Østersøen, Sønderborg. Pours clear golden with small but stable white head. Clear aroma of yeast and malt, with some hoppy notes. Bitter, hoppy flavour with malty and estery notes. Bittersweetish aftertaste. Acceptable for the style, but probably better on a hot day in Sri Lanka than in Denmark.
Tried
from Can
on 09 Jan 2015
at 13:51
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Can, 4.8%. OK aroma, mildly bready. Clear golden colour. Good stable white head. The flavour is bready and watery with a mild, slightly rough bitterness. Has a bit of maltiness, especially in the finish. Better than expected.
Tried
from Can
on 09 Jan 2015
at 13:50
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
12 ounce bottle into lager glass, no bottle dating. Pours slightly hazy golden orange color with a 1 finger dense off white head with good retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Light spotty lacing clings down the glass, with some moderate streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Aromas of lemon, pear, apple, honey, bread, herbal, grass, light pepper, and yeast earthiness. Mediocre aromas of big fruitiness and moderate pale malt and earthy hop notes; with poor balance and decent strength. Taste of lemon, pear, apple, cracker, bread, light honey, herbal, grass, light pepper, and yeast earthiness. Light earthy bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of lemon, pear, apple, cracker, bread, light honey, herbal, grass, and yeast earthiness on the finish for a short bit. Good balance and solid robustness of pale malt, earthy hops, and yeast ester notes; with a decent malt/bitterness balance and minimal cloying flavors after the finish. Medium carbonation and body; with a smooth, fairly crisp, and slightly bready mouthfeel that is ok. Alcohol is well hidden with no warming present after the finish as expected of 4.8%. Overall this is a pretty mediocre pale lager style. Good balance and solid robustness of pale malt, earthy hops, and yeast ester flavors; and very smooth and fairly crisp to drink. Not bad, but not all that enjoyable either.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Dec 2014
at 19:33
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
330ml bottle as from an off license in London. Pours back with nice tan head. Aroma is toffee. Taste is bitter liquorice, coffee, a little tobacco.. would’ve preferred a bit more sweetness really.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Dec 2014
at 17:20