Russian River Brewing Company Happy Hops IPA

Happy Hops IPA

 

Russian River Brewing Company in Santa Rosa, California, United States 🇺🇸

  IPA - West Coast Regular
Score
7.63
ABV: 6.5% IBU: - Ticks: 27
Happy Hops was originally brewed in 1944 by the Grace Brother's Brewery in Santa Rosa, CA! We are paying homage to the Grace family, whose brewery closed in the 1960's, and have revived "Happy," the charming hop character who graces the front of this label. Happy Hops is an IPA brewed with both new and old world hop varieties, giving this beer bold aromas and flavors with notes of tropical and stone fruits.
(from label)

Happy Hops is an incredibly hoppy India Pale Ale with an immense hop aroma and flavor and a mild bitterness.
 

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8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

500mL bottle. Pours clear blonde with a white head. Tons of bright pine, juicy melon, and biscuit malts on the nose. Flavour has crisp pine, fresh melon, and biscuit malts. Good carbonation. Fantastic IPA.

Tried from Bottle from The Beer Junction on 07 Oct 2025 at 01:58


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Pale, with bright hops - lychee, pear and apricot. Mellow pale malt. Bright gold colour. Clean. Nice work.

Tried from Draft on 06 Feb 2025 at 04:17


7

A pale blonde ipa with a very thin white head. In aroma, nice biscuit malt with resinous hops, light mineral notes, pleasant. In mouth, a nice crisp biscuit malt with resinous floral hops, light pine needles, light grapefruit, pleasant. On tap at Venti’s.

Tried from Draft on 22 Aug 2024 at 00:49


7.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

On draught at The Hop Stop.

Tried on 08 Aug 2024 at 17:08


6.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

4oz pour on a flight on 16th June 2024 (Father's Day) in Lido Bottle Works, Newport Beach. Clean golden body, decent white crown. Nice hop bite, piney and semi-bitter.

Tried from Draft on 17 Jun 2024 at 13:08


8.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9

Sampled from the tap at the Aces & Ales Nellis. Pours a clear yellow gold with a white head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has a nice dank citrus and light pine combination with some pre ripe mango underlying. Flavor has dank citrus and a bit of grass with some pine in the finish.

Tried from Draft on 29 Apr 2024 at 02:08


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle drunk at Scott's house for Christmas dinner while Scooter oinked outside in the background. Lightly hazy amber, moderate head. Great nose of sweet orange-lemon (Citra?). Flavor has a broad hop spectrum with citrus and tropical notes plus some smooth earthy background bitterness. Perfect balance and completely crushable.

Tried from Bottle on 26 Dec 2023 at 03:52


8

Taster @Great Americano Beer Festival. 21/09/2023. Color amarillo corona de espuma blanca aromas y sabores frutales, mango cuerpo medio.

Tried from Can on 22 Sep 2023 at 13:19


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Capped 750 mL bottle from Belmont Station, 9/10/23. Clear gold, large white head, average retention. Aroma of green hops, pale malt. Taste is dank, green hops, pale malt. Juicy, moderate bitterness. Crisp. Nice.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Sep 2023 at 01:02


7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

On tap at HorseBrass in PDX clean fresh hop character. Citrus pith and pine notes. Clean light finish.

Tried from Draft on 08 Aug 2023 at 01:17