Happy Hops IPA
Russian River Brewing Company in Santa Rosa, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - West Coast Regular|
Score
7.66
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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.
(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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8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
500ml bottle from Volcanic Bottle Shop. Clear golden pour, stiff, rocky head leaves rings of lacing. Light, pleasing citrusy aroma. Taste is mild grapefruit and lemon zest with a nice bready backbone. Just a hint of dryness at the finish and a dull tingle that gradually fades away.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Volcanic Bottle Shoppe
on 24 Feb 2026
at 06:32
7.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle at home shared with Johnny. Hazy yellow color, medium sized white head. Aroma is malts, hops, fruity hops. Not that special, but nothing wrong with it either. Flavor is malts, hops, fruity hops, old school fruity-bitter hops with pine notes and maybe light resin, firm bitterness towards the end. Solid, not great.
Tried
on 05 Jan 2026
at 21:02
8/10
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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
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can shared by someone at the tasters choice tasting back in July, thanks for the opportunity!
Tried
from Can
on 02 Oct 2025
at 00:57
8/10
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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
9/10
Piney, hoppy and smooth
Tried
from Draft
on 23 Dec 2024
at 20:15
7/10
Tried
on 13 Oct 2024
at 01:23
7/10
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
7.9/10
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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
6.9/10
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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