Subsidiaries
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
This is a great stout and, for me, it fits the Foreign/Export style quite well. Lion Stout pours wall to wall black with a creamy beige head. The aroma is cacao nibs, cocoa, coffee and a sharp fruitiness - apricots, strawberries, grapes - that differentiates it from most imperial stouts. The fruit notes come through in the flavor with a refreshing acidity. The beer starts sweet with cocoa and coffee and finishes with acidity and smoke. It’s quite easy to drink. The creamy mouthfeel helps, as well. This beer has a lot of roasted malt character and manages also to be refreshing. Great stuff.
Tried
on 29 May 2010
at 19:46
7.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Purchased at the LCBO and goes under the name Sinha Stout from Lion Brewery Ceylon Ltd. Pours a dark brown with the slimmest of all red highlights. The head is brown and nice, rich and creamy like a freshly poured glass of chocolat milk, but with some good retention. Lacing is left like spiderwebs all over. The nose is well balanced between chocolat, molasse, caramel and some coffee. The taste is the same, very well-balanced with some coffee, cocoa and molasse. Much smoother than other brews of this style. Syrupy, but clean mouthfeel. Great aftertaste that stays, with some dark fruits mildly in there. Glad I bought a few more bottles to cellar, as this one is pretty awesome.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 May 2010
at 22:00
8.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Almost black pour with some browns. Nose is caramel and coffee malts. Taste is crisp, sweet cream and cocoa. Rated 1/8/01
Tried
on 12 May 2010
at 11:12
4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 2
330 ml bottle, $1.80 @ Binny’s. At least this one doesn’t call itself "Imperial" because it’s from a former colony! Poured in a shaker. Dark golden pils color, even a hint of red, under a big foamy head. Yet, the smell is kind of skunky. Okay, at least it doesn’t not an over-sugared malt liquor. But the taste: yikes! Sugary and a bit bilious. With some air in the glass, there’s some tartness that could be likened to a tripel, but it’s one golden thread in a pile of used dental floss. None of the other rating on the front page indicate any problems, and a beer this strong shouldn’t be this skunked. I guess if you don’t sniff too much, you can get a heady nose of alcohol. But this just does not go down well for me.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Apr 2010
at 20:47
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Can. Pours a strong, dark gold with a substantial, pure white head. Nose of overripe fruit, corn, alcohol, and intensely sweet malts. Flavor is a bit over the top: Huge malty sweetness, almost syrupy, medicinal, some caramel ntoes. Pretty boozy. The seeming lack of hop bitterness to offset the intense sweetness is a bit problematic. Medium to full bodied. Finish is more syrupy sweetness, which lingers for too long. If you like malt liquors, you would probably like this. Apparently I don’t like malt liquor enough, because it was tough for me to get through this beer.
Tried
from Can
on 18 Apr 2010
at 11:26
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Poured from 12 oz can. Pours pitch black with a brown / coffee head. Aroma is of roasted malts, very subtle and soothing. Other reviews state that the alcohol is buried in the mix, and it’s true. It’s slightly sweet with hints of roasted malt and coffee, with a bit of chocolate. This is a very good stout, have seen it around but never picked it up and I’m glad I finally did.
Tried
from Can
on 11 Apr 2010
at 13:44
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Pours solid black with a dark brown head. Darkest head I’ve seen in a long time.Massive aroma of cocoa and dark chocolate, molasses, with some roasted coffee and barley in the background. Pretty full on.More massively roasted flavours (but no burnt notes!). Some sweet alcohol shows but is balanced by huge roasted barley notes. A big beer! Quite sweet. A bit too much alcohol?Quite creamy body, the carbonation is a little high.
Tried
on 01 Apr 2010
at 02:16
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
10/03 0.33 l bottle from Bier-Spezialitäten-Laden, shared with Doggythedog. It poured dark brown, almost black body with medium to bigger brown head. Strong stout nose, coffee, caramel, chocolate and dark fruits. Touch of alcohol as well. Coffee, licorice, chocolate and some slight herbal hops are felt in the flavor. Sweetish, full bodied and robust. Long nice coffee and chocolate finish with some strange paper note at the end. No matter, it’s a great strong stout.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Mar 2010
at 11:34
8.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
330 ml bottle. Dark body with a nice reddish brown head. Aroma is smooth, light roasted malt with a little hint of liquorices. Flavor is sweet, roasted malt, with just a little touch of acidity, making a fine balance against the sweet malt. Not very bitter, still a fine and balanced brew. Rather quaffable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Mar 2010
at 10:05
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Dark brown body with tan head. Flavour is roasted malt, coffee and chocolate.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Mar 2010
at 13:25