Tröegs Nugget Nectar Ale

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

Loved this beer! Had a couple of glasses at Max’s in Baltimore. I’ve found a new favorite!

Pours a hazy copper color with an off white head. Aroma is caramel, toast, fruity apple, and juicy citrus hops. Flavor is malty, biscuit, caramel, and a bitter piney finish.

Bottle. A freebie, thanks to the big guy at Big Z Beverage. Moderate malt aromas of roasted, caramel and bread, light to moderate hop notes of orange and pine, light soap for the yeast, with hints of pepper, date,brown sugar and some spice. Head is small, frothy, slightly off-white with excellent lacing and is mostly diminishing. Color is sparkling clear amber/orange. Flavor starts lightly sweet and moderately acidic and bitter, then finishes with a long bitter taste, and some acidity and sweetness before it. Palate is medium, watery, with a lively carbonation and a very dry finish. A superb IPA, bordering between a sipper and an easy drinker.

Nice hazy orange ppour with a generous amount of hop and caramel. Sweet cereal bite with smooth finish. Good.

~ 12 oz bottle, courtesy of Rick at Big Z Beverage in Huntington, NY. I’ve heard so much hype around this beer, and now, finally, in my glass, lies all 12 beautiful ounces of this monster! The smell is nothing short of amazing. Grapefruit, and sweet hoppy aromas dazzle the senses. The taste is intensely balanced, and each gulp went down smoother than the next. Damn! As quickly as that, my glass is empty. This all happened way too fast! I wish I had a 6-pack, but unfortunately, I just had one. Now I can fully understand why some beer junkies out there were referring to this stuff as "crack in a bottle." Highly recommended! ~

On cask at Barcade. Poured a nice orange hue with a fluffy white head. Strong hop aroma of pine and citrus. Tasted amazing. Only slightly carbonated, the beer possessed the hop bite I expected along with a citrus juiciness which I had not. Sweet and lip-smacking. I look forward to another round of this.

Bottle. Pours a clear amber color with a small and slightly off-white head. Aroma is pine hops and malt, all the way - I had trouble deciding if this was an IPA or just a monsterously hoppy amber ale. Flavor is malt with a bit of citrus in the front moving into a strong (and I mean STRONG) pine hop finish. The beer is bitter, but it doesn’t take away from the overall drinking experience; I feel like I’m drinking a hoppy beer rather than putting my face into a barrel of hops. It’s a great, great beer, and I’m glad the guy at the store pointed it out to me (and had it on sale).

Out of a 22 oz bottle... A very clear carrot orange color. Big puffy head; rocky and pure white. Little bubbles of carbonation. The color is just ok; the head retention is great. The aroma is a tremendous piney hop smell. Sweet bready malt. Like a very malty IPA, or a sweet amber with a ton of hops. English malts, but with a major hop acccent. Great! The taste is sweet bready malts with an accent of some orange peel and sweet tangerine. The base is very sweet, with slightly sour grapefruit as well. Flowery esters and tart flavors. The thick and creamy feel has a bitter bite on the way down. It’s really more like an IPA than an Imperial amber. The hop/malt ratio is absolutely perfect. It’s a great great beer, drinkable and delicious and bursting with flavor. Greater than the sum of its parts.