Day 116- Beer 116 Long Hammer IPA, Red Hook Brewery, Woodinville Washington and Porstmouth Oregon

Tonight's brew poured a hazy golden colour with a slightly off white head that left a nice spattering of sticky lacing. The aroma was citrus, hops and hints of a sweet malt. The taste surprisingly was not what I expected from the companies description. Yes it had some nice hop bitterness up front typical of an IPA but then it seemed to end with a caramel sweetness. Overall a nice crisp ale but nothing outstanding, 3.5 out of 5

Day 115-Beer115 Lions Winter Ale, Granville Island Brewery, British Columbia

Went out for lunch with some friends from my past working days to a restaurant on the Hamilton Pier. Tried a Lions Winter Ale.  The beer was on tap, it arrived with a nice off white head that left lots of lacing  across the surface and stuck to the glass through the entire pint. The colour was a dark amber/copper colour. It's aroma was chocolate up front with hints of vanilla. The flavour was dark chocolate up front which mellowed out of caramel and milk chocolate. Overall a good beer, a little too sweet, but it has a nice creamy feel to it,  3.6 out of 5

Day 114-Beer 114 Old Credit Pale Pilsner, Old Credit Brewing Co. Port Credit, Missisaga, Ontario Ca

A little bit of Canada ay.  Tonight's brew poured a clear, golden colour with a nice white head and leaves little lacing. Aroma is mild malts with a hint of noble hops. A nice pilsner with a bready malt which is balanced with a nice crisp hop bitterness. It is a nice crisp similar to most German pils, over all a good beer that is very drinkable, 3.7 out of 5

Day 113-Beer 113 Phin and Matt's Extraordinary Ale, Southern Tier Brewing Co. Lakewood NY

Extraordinarily bad brewed ale poured a hazy copper colour with some off white head that left a little lacing. The smell at first was somewhat sour so maybe I got a bad bottle, then some sweet malt aroma. The taste was watery with hints of hops up front and some sweet malts. Not a very good brew  3.1 out of 5

Day 112-Beer 112 Holy Mackerel Special Golden Ale, Holy Mackerel Brewing Company, Fort Lauderdale, Fla

Today's brew was a Belgian style beer that poured a hazy golden colour with very little head and lacing but somewhat good carbonation. It's aroma was that of fruit, citrus and Belgian yeast. The taste was unique, up front it had hints of something smokey, and like burnt sugar and followed by fruity sweetness of banana and honey. Overall, quite  drinkable  with it's 8.5%ABV, 3.5 out of 5

Day 111-Beer111 Heffe, Widmer Brothers Brewing, Portland Oregon

Tonight's brew poured a slightly hazy golden colour with lots of little floaties and very little head. It had a mild citrus smell (orange) with hints of banana and some herbal hops. Very mild tasting with just a touch of citrus. Not a great heffe but it was drinkable. 3.3 out of 5

Day 110-Beer 110 Stone Hammer Dark Ale, F&M Brewery Guelph Ontario

Ah back in Canada "ey" for Easter Dinner . Spent a great time and my younger brother's house with our entire Chopp family including both of my parents and my brothers and our families. Tonight's brew was donated to the cause by my brother Bill. Stone Hammer poured a clear dark brown colour. The aroma was toasted malts and molasses. The taste was toasted malts, dark coffee and hints of molasses and a slightly hoppy finish. Not bad for a dark ale but not the top of it's class 3.5 out of 5