Bottle of Nugget Nectar Imperial Amber thanks to bu11zeye. Pours a deep amber orange with a smallish, frothy off-white head. Lots of hops, plums and caramel. Taste is fruity and finishes nice and sweet with caramel and a bit of cereal and a dash of chocolate malts. Syrupy with a slight bit of biting carbonation. Good beer.

<b>In short: </b>A dry and crisp IPA<br /> <b>How: </b>Bottle 12oz from CharlesDarwin, thanks a lot tom. Drank fresh two few weeks after receiving it.<br /> <b>The look: </b>Partially cloudy dark orange body topped by a small off-white head<br /> <b>In long: </b>Aroma is soapy, a little stinky &#40;sweat&#41;, fresh orange and a little pine-cone juice. Body is light, this beer is rather low on the malt side. Very toasted bread with some dry caramel and honey with a hard-candy feeling. A little sugary. Hop taste is not very juicy, more like dried oranges with some foresty notes. Despite the fruity flavours the beer has an assertive dry bitterness. I don’t know what it is but something in the beer really dries it out and that’s one of its best feature. I could feel a little alcohol bite &#40;&#033;?&#41; despite the relatively low abv. Overall the beer is quite tasty. Good beer, I sure couldn’t make a better nugget nectar myself, cause my nuggets… well… you don’t want my nuggets nectar.

Bottle, pours slightly orange, vaguely cloudy, with a small, white head. Aroma is all hops, bright, citrusy, piney. Flavor is pine and citrus hops again up front, followed by a balancing maltiness, and finsihes with a long, acidic tang. Moderately carbonated. Very, very good.

A nice brilliant golden amber, sporting a great off-white sticky marshmallow head. A pretty huge hop profile here... a very clean pine/grapefruit melding with a sweet malt. When first smelling it, the first thought was "This is what car fresheners or Pinesol SHOULD smell like" ;&#41; Like the smell, the hops carry over here, in a very good way. A very pine/spruce taste with a bit of a sweet, malty balance towards the back of the tongue, followed by a bittering finish. Truly spectacular. A full body, a moderate carbonation - not overly so, but just about right to balance the rather big flavour. A well-done ’imperialization,’ I was quite shocked with how well this all went over. This one seems to be worthy of the hype, and I’d go for it again.

Hazy orange pour with one-finger off-white head. Tasted after Pliny the Elder, so I had to adjust... admittedly this smelled like wet dog to me at first. But I kept at it and the beer rewarded: pine, citrus, almost a spicy apricot, and a very solid malt backbone. Nicely spicy bitter finish. This bottle was about 8 months old, so I’m sure it’s past its prime, but I can tell this is a good beer.