Happy Pils
Ithaca Beer Company

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From:
Ithaca Beer Company
 
New York, United States
Style:
German Pilsner
Ranked #327
ABV:
5%
Score:
85
Ranked #20,635
Avg:
3.76 | pDev: 6.91%
Reviews:
13
Ratings:
41
Status:
Active
Rated:
Mar 16, 2023
Added:
Apr 03, 2016
Wants:
  0
Gots:
  8
Brilliantly clear and refreshing, our Happy Pils boasts a healthy amount of spicy noble Germans hops, and a dynamic, yet restrained malt backbone. Using a traditional German lager yeast, our brewers execute in true German fashion a flawless lager fermentation. Our Happy Pils is bound to bring a smile to any craft beer lover’s face.

HOPS German Tettnang, Magnum, German Mittelfruh
MALTS Pilsner, Pale
Yeast German Lager
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Rated: 3.25 by mattjp03 from Alabama

Mar 16, 2023
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Rated: 4.02 by Arg914 from New York

Apr 02, 2021
 
Rated: 3.67 by ProNR from Florida

Dec 28, 2018
 
Rated: 3.5 by ShepardCommander from Virginia

Jul 28, 2018
 
Rated: 3.5 by dsshuck from Delaware

Jun 18, 2018
 
Rated: 3.75 by paulish from New York

Jun 02, 2018
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Rated by Bluerabbitbell from Pennsylvania

3.84/5  rDev +2.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Good choice!
May 23, 2018
 
Rated: 4.25 by TeachChefs from Pennsylvania

Sep 01, 2017
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Reviewed by NeroFiddled from Pennsylvania

3.86/5  rDev +2.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Ithaca Beer Co. "Happy Pils"
12 fl. oz. brown glass bottle, production coded but without freshness dating
$2 @ Weis Market, Conshohocken, PA

Notes via stream of consciousness: Deep gold body with a haze beneath a short head of bright white that fades almost immediately. The aroma is hoppy with spicy and herbal noble hops over a lightly grainy malt base. The flavor follows with a little more floral character, and a moderate balancing bitterness that brings it to a spicy and earthy dry finish. Medium-light in body and crisp with a standard carbonation level. Overall a decent German pilsner.
Aug 02, 2017
 
Rated: 3.87 by Kayakguy from Massachusetts

Aug 02, 2017
 
Rated: 3.79 by DerekP from Pennsylvania

Jul 29, 2017
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Reviewed by mvanaskie13 from Pennsylvania

3.68/5  rDev -2.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Poured into a half pint glass: color is straw, nearly clear, head is bright white with fine bubbles, good lacing on the glass.

Smell is light toast, biscuit, earth, grass.

Taste is pleasant, good malt presence, flavor is light biscuit, earth, toast, then lingering hop grass/earthiness.

Mouthfeel is crisp, moderate, lingering bitterness.

Overall a good pilsner, crisp, mostly clean, solid malt, maybe a touch bitter.
Jun 18, 2017
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Reviewed by puboflyons from New Hampshire

3.24/5  rDev -13.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
From the 21 fl. oz. bottle with no date inscribed. Sampled on June 17, 2017.

Kind of murky looking yellow pour with a modest white head that hangs around.

The aroma seems way too malty for a pilsener. It is kind of like tobacco with a low to no hop profile. I am wondering if this is an old bottle. No date so I do not know.

The body was in the medium range.

The taste also felt like a malt bomb not that I am expecting a whole lot of hop character for a Pilsener. It seemed kind of stale with a vague sweetness.
Jun 17, 2017
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Reviewed by timfelix from New York

4.47/5  rDev +18.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
had it at the brewery, so the freshness factor may affect this rating, as opposed to getting a bottle that was not so fresh. This is GREAT pilsner. If you like a pilsner, this one is as good as the best I have had. Crisp, a bit of malt, a little bite, and a wonderful pilsner flavor with no off tastes or aftertastes.
Had it in a bottle after the brewery trip. Still very good. The bottle came from the brewery v isit, so freshness is pretty certain. Later I got some from local beer store and it was just as good
Jun 17, 2017
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Reviewed by Lone_Freighter from Vermont

3.94/5  rDev +4.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Poured into a pilsener glass, the appearance was a yellow transparent color with a finger’s worth of head that quickly settled to a film over top of the beer. Not much lace. Some carbonation could be seen rising at a moderate pace. The aroma had some biscuits/breadiness up front over top of some grassy hops. Light hop spice. The flavor was moderately sweet with a brisk touch of grassy hops. Slight bready sort of aftertaste, but even that is a stretch as there really wasn’t much of any aftertaste, honestly. Finish had some prickly carbonation hitting, odd, but alright, I guess. The palate was between light and medium bodied with a fair sessionability about it. Carbonation seemed to prickle a little bit just like in the finish, but it didn’t indicate anything bad about the beer. Overall, for the most part, everything seemed pretty good about this pilsener, though I couldn’t really tell if it was a German or a Czech one. Perhaps a confusing one and still, I’d give this another shot.
Jun 08, 2017
 
Rated: 3.7 by R11415 from New York

Jun 05, 2017
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Reviewed by MikeWard from Pennsylvania

3.5/5  rDev -6.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
from the holiday weekend. 12oz bottle into a glass. Freshness dating was smeared, therefore illegible.

Yellow body, small white head, which quickly shrinks to ring and covering before disappearing altogether. Can be briefly resurrected by agitating.

Faint aroma of malt and yeast.

taste is as the nose.

light towards medium on the mouth, slightly sour and bitter on the finish.

Overall, and it might be a bit old, this beer has nothing much going for it. Not unpleasant, just not a lot there.
May 29, 2017
 
Rated: 3.43 by Brew_ski from Pennsylvania

May 26, 2017
 
Rated: 3.85 by thoglund from New York

Apr 30, 2017
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Reviewed by TheManiacalOne from Rhode Island

3.75/5  rDev -0.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
On-tap 4/21/2017 at Doherty’s Ale House in Warwick, RI, served in a tapered pint glass.

A: The beer is a light gold color, with a large foamy white head that fades slowly and leaves a thick but spotty lace on the glass.

S: The aroma contains lager yeast, citrus, caramelized malts and some grassy hops.

T: The taste starts out with a decent burst of grassy hops bitterness that is quickly followed by some breadiness from lager yeast and a thin malt character. Some citrus and malt sweetness brings a decent balance. The after-taste is slightly hoppy and slightly sweet.

M: Crisp and a little smooth, light-to-medium body, medium carbonation, finish is clean.

O: A little tasty, goes down ok, not filling at all, mild kick, decent representation of style, this is a decent beer to drink for a while if you’re in the mood for the style.
Apr 22, 2017
Happy Pils from Ithaca Beer Company
Beer rating: 85 out of 100 with 41 ratings