Tröegs Nugget Nectar Ale

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

12oz bottle via trade with MrChopin. Pours a crystal clear rusty orange color with a 2 finger off white head that left great lacing in the tulip glass. BIG nose of piny and citrus hops with a touch of sweet malt. Flavor is also quite hoppy with a nice balance of hop bitterness and sweet malts in the finish. A great IPA! Thanks for this one man!!

Thanks tpd975 for the share. Pours copper gold with a big white head. Nose is caramel, citrus, and some rosemary/ pine. Flavor is big malt backbone with lots of piney hops and a sweet caramel finish. Excellent beer.

Troegs Nugget Nectar is a very clear amber ale with a dense, foamy, yellowed off-white head that leaves outstanding lacing. How can a beer be this hoppy and this clear? Who knows? The aroma is a huge blast of fresh American hops. It smells like a handful of hops. It’s no lie. It is medium bodied, very smooth and a touch fizzy. The finish is crisp, dry, and clean. It has a bold pine flavor with juicy citrus peel. It tastes like... essence of American hops. It’s hard to detect the malt. There may be a touch of pretzel. There is no distracting sweetness. It’s a miracle beer for hop heads. It really doesn’t come off as all that bitter. It’s just hoppy! How do they do this? It’s fantastic!

12 oz bottle courtesy of Freddy. I was purchasing some Hop stoopid from him and he threw this in as a freebie. Thanks man. Pours a translucent copper color with a small off-white head. The aroma is strong with hoppy pine resins. The flavor is overtly hoppy with biter pine, caramel and citrus are way in the background. The mouthfeel was just a touch watery. The finish was long and dry with lingering biter pine. Overall: A very approachable IPA, provided you love biter IPA’s.

Enticing aroma of hops, mainly earthy, piney. The appearance is true to the style, an attractive orange color with an off white head. The flavor is very hoppy, piney hops mainly, some citrus, with the slightest bit of caramel maltiness. The finish is actually a little sweeter than the flavor, with a taste of caramel, then a segue into an oily, piney hop bitterness near the back of the throat, which endures. Good representation of the style. The truly great IPA’s however, are a careful balance between sweet and bitter, which this lacks. They also tend to have more of a variety in the types of hops in the brew (citrus, pine, floral, herbal) than this does. Still enjoyable.

courtesy of kiefdog. pours amber with white head. Aroma of fresh pine hops Taste, very hoppy light citrus / grapefruit notes with bitter finish and warming alcohol. Interesting IPA, a little too bitter for my taste.

Bottle. Aroma of oily, citrus hops, some wet dog. Flavor balanced between bitter hops and semi-sweet malt. The aroma had some encouraging notes, but with the wet dog and the relative boredom that ensued in the mouth, can’t say I get the hype with this one. Above average, sure, but not special for me.

Beautiful beer. Thank you DIM for 3 more bottles of this nectar! Super hoppy, herbal and slightly dank in the aroma. So, so good. I just want to keep smelling this beer. Taste is a perfect balance of juicy hops that lean toward neither citrus nor pine, but walk that line nicely. Caramel body provides just the right sweetness. More hoppy than bitter, but a pleasant bitterness level is present. Finishes refreshing with a pleasant lingering bitterness. Extremely drinkable. Excellent beer.