Happy Guy
North Pier Brewing Company in Benton Harbor, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Pilsener Rotating|
Score
6.89
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deyholla (22839) reviewed Happy Guy from North Pier Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Sampled from the tap at the brewery. Pours a clear straw yellow with a white head that dissipates to the edges and laces slightly. Aroma has lots of straw and grass with a bit of hay underlying. Flavor has lots of straw with earthy grass and a hint of leaves.
superspak (10160) reviewed Happy Guy from North Pier Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
16 ounce can into lager glass, no can dating. Pours slightly hazy pale golden yellow color with a 1-2 finger dense and rocky white head with awesome retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lasts. Thick soapy lacing clings down the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of big lemon, orange, grapefruit, peach, citrus peel/zest, and light pepper/pine, cracker, white bread dough, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of citrus hops and pale malt notes; with great strength. Taste of big lemon, orange, grapefruit, peach, citrus peel/zest, and light pepper/pine, cracker, white bread dough, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Light pine, citrus peel/zest, herbal, floral, grassy bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of lemon, orange, grapefruit, peach, citrus peel/zest, and light pepper/pine, cracker, white bread dough, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Great complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus hops and pale malt flavors; with a great malt/bitterness balance, and zero cloying/astringent flavors after the finish. Perfectly clean on lager flavors, with zero yeast notes. Lightly increasing dryness from bitterness and carbonation. Medium-high carbonation and medium body; with a very smooth, moderately bready/grainy, fairly crisp, and lightly sticky balanced mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol for 6.1%. Overall this is an excellent dry hopped pilsener! All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus hops and pale malt flavors; very smooth, crisp, and refreshing to drink with the mellowly bitter/drying finish. Awesome balance of clean pils malts and juicy/vibrant citrus hops; with solid balancing hop bitterness. A very enjoyable offering, and well made style example.