Tröegs Nugget Nectar Ale

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

Bottle served in a Duvel tulip. Clear amber color topped by a diminishing medium sized head. It smells almost like pure grapefruit juice, just hints of pine and grass. The flavor has a rich, pleasant bitterness with notes of grapefruit, caramel, and pine. This beer is altogether too smooth making it quite dangerous.

Bottle. Pours a clear deep orange/amber with a thick, foamy white head. Aroma of grassy and garlicky hops. Flavor of sweet caramel malt and grassy hops with a bitter finish. Nice and drinkable. The hop profile isn’t my favorite, but this is a decent IPA. 7/4/7/4/15 (3.7/5)

This beer pours a very clearm amber with a 1 fingered head with nice amounts of lacing. The smell consists mostly of a citrusy hop smell with notes of vanilla. For being such a high IBU beer this beer is very smooth and the flavors in my opinion are very well balanced. There is a large citrus flavor but it balances well with the nice malt base. The mouthfeel is nice, but it has a slight dry aftertaste and is a little undercarbonated. I certainly look forward to when this comes on tap locally because I wanna try it all night long it is that drinable and that yummy :)

Draft @ Cole’s. Copper, thin head. Nose is awesome pine & grapefruit skin, surprisingly nice malt. Flavor is strong pine & citrus (lemon/grapefruit w. orange pith). Very nice maltiness serves to heighten the hops.

Draft: @ Cole’s in Buffalo, NY. Pours golden orange with an off white head. Obviously hoppy, pine and citrus dominate. Enough malt presence to balance. Very nice. 8/4/8/4/16 = 4.0
Bottle: Bright golden orange with an off white head. Outrageous sweet hoppy aroma with citrus fruit juice and pineapple. The flavor doesn’t pack quite the same punch. Relatively well balanced, juicy citric hops, some floral notes, and a nice hoppy finish. Very drinkable. 4/9/4/7/16 = 4.0

Now thats a beer. Had at Cole’s rare beer fest. amber orangish color, with some good foam. nose is pine sweet hops. Flavor was well balanced citrus hops and good sweet malts fantastic beer

From a bottle, clear copper color with a nice finger head that quickly vanishes. Very well carbonated that keeps the lace going through the whole beer. Smell is of pine and grapefruit with a little flower aroma. This does have a big hop bang but yet is perfectly balanced with the malts for a smooth easy drinking beer for 7.5%ABV. I am surprised TROEGS calls it an Imperial Amber!!! This is one of the best beers I have had not considered an IPA. It seems to me to be a very good IPA, get some while you can before it’s gone. This is a seasonal beer released in late January thru February.

Pours reddish orange into a shaker. White head quickly recedes to hug rim. Grapefruit and pine aromas. Crisp pine resin and grapefruit upfront with a caramel middle and a return to resiny grapefruit for the dry, butlasting finish. Leans more to hops in balance, but I think that’s what they were going for....