Day 123-Beer 123 Warka Strong, Warka Brewery, Warka Poland

Off to Europe for a strong lager, 6.5%ABV It poured a clear dark honey colour with okay head that dissipated quickly and left only a spattering of lacing. The aroma was sweet caramel malt with a background of fruit and coffee. The taste is quite sweet up front with a syrupy feel. Overall not a bad euro lager but not the best I have had 3.4 out of 5

Day 122-Beer 122 Nickel Brook Headstock, Beeter Bitters Brewing Co., Burlington Ontario

"A penny for your thoughts and a NICKEL for your thirst" This one is made close to home, a short ride down the highway. At 7% this is a strong IPA. It poured a slightly hazy golden orange colour with lots of head that left a nice covering across the top and that stuck to the sides of the glass as you drank this beer. The smell was citrus (grapefruit), pine, spicy hops and hints of sweetness almost honey like. The taste is sweet malts (caramel) and grapefruit that finishes with a nice hop bitterness that is not overwhelming. It has a nice creamy feel to it as you drink it and a very nice dry finish. Overall a very nice refreshing IPA, 4 out of 5

Day 121-Beer 121 Efes Pislner, Efes Brewery, Istanbul Turkey

Over the last couple of nights there has been Bear, Moose and tonight its Turkey. The beer poured a clear golden colour with adequate head that dissipated quickly and left some lacing. The aroma was fresh grass and malt. The taste was clean crisp with hints of caramel malts and lemon. A really nice pilsner that would go great on a hot summer day, I sure I'll have a few more of these. 3.8 out of 5

Day 120-Beer 120 Boundary Ale, Moosehead Breweries, Saint John, New Brunswick

It was a wet cold damp and misty day, so I thought a maritime beer would be appropriate. It poured a clear copper colour with lots of slightly of white head that eventually settled to leave some nice lacing across the surface and the stuck to the side of the glass. The label stated that it is made with four hops and seven malts. Its aroma was caramel and roasted malt with hints of hops. The taste has a little bit of sweetness up front from the malts with a hint of hop bitterness, not bad for a bigger brewery ale. 3.6 out of 5

Day 119-Beer 119 Racer 5 India Pale Ale, Bear Republic Brewing Co. Cloverdale California

Hopefully my beer blues are over. Even though this one is a BEAR, I'm a little bullish on it. It poured a hazy golden/orange colour with nice head and left very nice lacing and lots of effervescent carbonation bubbles. The aroma was citrus, grapefruit, hops and a hint of sweet malts. The taste was hops right up front that settled into a well balanced taste of bitter hops, grapefruit and malts that then left with a nice hops finish. Overall a clean crisp well balance drinkable IPA 3.9 out of 5. If you enjoy IPA's you might want to RACE out and get one.

Day 118-Beer 118 Panic Attack, Holy Mackeral Brewing, Ft Lauderdale, florida

I might have a panic attack after this one, two not so good beers in a row, last night's was a bust and this one isn't much better. The label stated a Belgian style beer, well I have never had a beer from Belgium that tasted like this one. The only thing good is the 10% ABV so I guess if you put away a 6 pack they might taste a lot better. It poured a hazy dark amber/copper colour ( I guess the hazy colour makes it like a Belgium Beer?) with a 1/2 inch of bubbly head that dissipated quickly and left a little lacing across the surface. The aroma was somewhat mixed with hints of sweet syrup, yeast, alcohol up front and something sour in the background. The taste was more like a malt liquor, lots of sweet malt, orange and caramel and alcohol. Not the greatest beer to drink quite syrupy and not a lot of carbonation. 2.9 out of 5

Day 117-Beer 117 Blue, Sweetwater Brewing Co. Atlanta Georgia

this company's motto is "Don't Float in the Mainstream" and they are correct with this one, it sinks and it gave me the blues. It poured a clear golden colour with almost no head, very little carbonation and not lacing to speak of. My daughter described the smell as a Tim Horton's Blueberry Muffin. Hints of blueberry and wheat and not much else. The taste was that of a bad wheat beer that they tried to cover up with blueberry juice and sugar. Like, I have said many a time, if you have to add fruit to a beer to make it taste good it probably shouldn't be drank, and this fits the bill. 2.6 out of 5