Tröegs Nugget Nectar Ale

Brewed by Tröegs Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania USA

Tap at Bobbique. This golden/amber ale was a perfect pairing with sliced bbq brisket last night at the famed Bobbique of Patchogue , NY. My two pints had a sweet aroma coming from them and I would not have guessed it was an IPA from the taste that came next. Yes, it was hop-laden, but the body was different from the aggressive ones, such as with DFH and Stone. It was super easy to drink and I almost can’t wait to try the bottle version in comparison.

An appropriate name for this "imperial amber". (Gotta love these new beer styles.) If flavor and aroma hops and high-gravity beer is your bag, then this is a beer to add to your list. In addition to the malty sweetness and chewy hop flavor, the beer is a very pleasant amber color. Plenty of carbonation for such a stong brew adds to the hop aroma.

Pours an orange color with a thin white head that doesn’t last long. Maybe the best smelling IPA that I have had. Hops and citrus just burst through the aroma. Taste is more of the same. It is sweet, but not overly so. Not much bitterness to it, but a little on the back end. Really well done IPA.

Bottled 010509. Nice orange-red color with a bright white head that dissipates quickly. Smell is very much an IPA- lots of citrusy hops are present. Taste is rather pleasing- a good level of carbonation that accompanies a caramel malt backbone that is quickly overwhelmed by the hops. Finishes okay. I don’t know if this lives up to the hype, but it’s certainly a good brew. If it were available to me, I’d probably buy it.

8 oz draft sampled at rattle n hum in nyc. Pour is copper and has slight whitish head. Citrusy and enjoyable. *rerate 7/01* Awesome nose of bitter hop, light flavor.

Thanks to tpd975 and kiefdog for allowing me to final get a try of this elusive beer. Pours clear deep gold with copper core and off white head. The aroma is very nice with a mixture of pure hop goodness from grapefruit, orange and tangelo with a modest malty sweet backbone. The taste starts with a sweet pulse of malts then quickly becomes full of citrus hops with the main players being grapefruit and orange peel. As the taste moves forward the hops become progressively more and more bitter. Solid brew.

Wow, nice beer. The first time I tried it I thought that it was too hop forward with nothing else going on, but since then it seems to have mellowed with a couple months on it and developed into a more subdued sweetness rather than a bitter bomb. The aroma just crept into me and I found myself craving intense hop ice cream because that’s the smell on this beauty. Taste is a real nice balance of the spectrum of hop flavors with some earthy floral, definitely some sweet and then some bitter dryness in the finish. Palate is just average but it leaves some sticky lips. Couple of months did it good in my opinion. Nice beer Troegs, thank you. 2008 12 oz.

Bottle courtesy of gibby. Pours a copper color with a thin white head. Aroma is sweet and floral with notes of grapefruit, citrus, floral hops, some honey and spice. Flavor is sweet and floral with notes of citrus, grapefruit, honey, spice, some hints of caramel and malt. Generally light to medium body with a crisp floral hops finish.