Tröegs Nugget Nectar Ale

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

beautiful looking beer...amber color with a big rocky off white head...nice hop aroma of sweet grapefruit....sweet star, a little watery....hop bitterness in the finish...finishes clean....sweet malts and well balanced I LIKE IT

Pours crystal clear reddish-orange with a very thin head. Aroma is crisp citrus and pine. Despite the strong hop aroma, there’s a nice maltiness that comes through as well. The nose gives ample forewarning of what is to follow. The taste is a mix of strong pine and citrus hops, with a nice bitterness in the aftertaste. The malt backbone carries the hops well. The mouthfeel is slightly resiny and slick. This is a fine beer that I look forward to each Spring. Troegs calls this an "Imperial Amber Ale". I think that’s a better classification than IPA.

Bottle: pours a dark amber with a thin white head, aroma is full of floral hops and some grapefruit, taste is full of hops, the finish has some balance but the hoppy flavor has a strong presense in the aftertaste. Nice brew but I have found that I prefer a little more balance in my IPAs and DIPAs.

12 oz bottle- Pours a dark amber liquid, capped with a foamy off white froth. The aroma is quite full of pine, wood, grapefruit, and orange peel with good floral presence. The flavour profile is quite hoppy. Resiny pine, floral hops, rose petal, bready malts and lots of caramel. Quite well balanced. It’s a bit of a sipper, and was a touch too dry, but well made overall. Good.

Thanks to xmarcnolanx for helping me get a couple bottles of this IPA. Pours copper / amber with a beige head. The aroma has pine and grapefruit hops as well as candi-like toasted amber ale malt. Smooth medium body that has a smoothness as first then it dies down with carbonation mixing in to give it a pine needle feel. The flavor starts very bitter with lightly abrasive hops, lots of dry pine shining through. There is some sweet malt, but it is mostly hidden by the hops. The finish has some resin and harsh dry hoppiness. Very nice IPA.

12 oz. bottle. Pours orange/amber with creamy white head, good lacing, but quickly dissipating. Pine and citrus nose . . . . hoptastic. Taste is bitter, but not overpoweringly so, with resiny pine and floral hops, citrus hop finish. Very drinkable IPA, This is pretty much a kicked up version of Troegs Hopback, which is awesome. Tasty brew.

From a bottle. Pours a very uninteresting amber color. The Aroma however is great. Huge pine aromas and alot sweet citrusy hops come through. More sticky piney hops in the taste and end with juicy citrusy sweet hop taste. This is a great IPA. Very drinkable...even better than drinkable I would consider it gulpable...I need to get some more of this stuff while I can.

Heavenly hop aroma, a little sweeter and fruiter than many IPAs. The hops used really set this apart from other excellent IPAs (in a good way). The body is solid and make for a great beer all in all.