Tröegs Nugget Nectar Ale

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

This beer welcomes you with a sweet grapefruity aroma with just a hint of soap-in-the-mouth flavor. A creamy but thin almond colored head quickly dissipates to expose the amber, orange to red hued brew, which to me is the quintessential beer color. The body is light and dry due to the hops but still round enough and the overall sensation is very refreshing. It leaves a little tang in the aftertaste with some very nice sweetness on the middle of the tongue. It reminds me of MH#9, but better. Except for the soapy notes, it is a great beer. My overall impression of this beer is that I would love to sit in a folding chair and watch the sun set over a lake on a warm summer evening while getting sufficiently lit up on this stuff. Like a good conversation it’s very easy and pleasant, but also interesting.

Bottle from Josh a.k.a. Baby Gap: Pours a deep amber with a one finger head. Hop aroma is intense. Massive citrus on the nose with a spicy sweetness. Taste is very balanced. Nice flavor with tangerine, sweetness, spicyness. Finish is smooth with a big hop bite. Crisp finish. Thanks, Josh!

(bottle, thanks Stine!) Pours a dark copper color with a white head. The aroma is the best feature of this beer, it is quite unique and appealing. There were scents of pineapple, heavy tangerine/tangelo, light hint of pepper, caramel, and also a candy-like quality as well. The taste was a bit of a let-down, with much less complexity than the aroma. The taste was very caramel dominant, with just a faint taste of bitter hops on the finish. Medium mouthfeel.

Bottle:light amber color, good head. Smell is sweet, fruity hops. Flavor is also sweet, fruity hops. After taste is a little grassy, but over all a very smooth and drinkable IPA. I like it! Good brew!***rerate***** Bottle shared by wolf....This one was a little hoppier than I remembed. Had a good malty backbone. Sugary sweet, lots of fruity and grassy hops...good beer.

Mmm, nice. Now thats some hops. Pours a deep chestnut red, full creamy khaki head, and moderate lacing that didn’t have time to form because I drank this so fast! Yep, this is one beer that screams, "Don’t mess around, drink me". Its very potable. Huge hop aroma, floral, grapefruit, pine resin, maybe just a bit of cannabis. Flavor also hop dominated with a tingly twangy tart hoppiness with more grapefruit and resins. Finishes with a peppery hop bitterness and just near the end, you’re reminded there’s malt in here, a big thick breadiness that reveals just a touch of alcohol.

Brass brew with a light head. A nicely bittered, hoppy ale, with hints of sweat, marijuana, grapefruit, and pine. Pretty sharp flavor - but it is not as tasty as other Troeg’s releases.

A Mes rate: Bottle drunk back at the hotel in Antwerp, big thanks to MikeTD.
A little watery looking but a nice brown / amber colour. Petrol hop aroma but they are really good hops. More balance in the flavour than I was expecting. Nice toffee malt and some big big American hops. Surprisingly light in the body making it very drinkable for its reasonable abv. Hit of grassy hops on the finish. Decent stuff but not quite explosive...

Pours a golden,clear red brown with a light, foamy head. Aroma of fruit, mainly citrus. Flavor is interesting up front,with a simultaneous pairing of both malt and hops. There is a caramel sweetness, and also the fresh,fruity hop flavor. Finish is a crisp bitterness with a lingering earthy hoppness. Aside from the slight heaviness of the malt up front, a very good beer.