Tröeg's Nugget Nectar

Review Date 7/23/2017  Last Updated 6/23/2022  By John Staradumsky

           

Troegs Nugget Nectar: Where have you been all my life? I must admit that this is the first bottle of Nugget Nectar I’ve ever sampled, thanks to the generosity of one Jeff Evans. Troegs beers are not sold in Georgia, and though I have enjoyed them on and off since the 90s, they’ve always been somewhat elusive where I have lived.

Be that as it may, I’m savoring and enjoying every drop of Nugget Nectar. It’s an amazing beer, malty and hoppy, and much like a classic American IPA. Troegs calls it an “imperial amber”, though that’s a lot like an IPA. The malts are different certainly, more akin to a German lager than an English IPA. Whatever you call this one, it works, and it is delicious.

From the label:

It’s impossible to forget your first squeeze. Once a year, as the newest humulus lupulus harvest arrives at Tröegs, we blend these super-fresh hops into an Imperial Amber Ale. Excessively dry-hopped, Nugget Nectar is an explosion of pine, resin and mango.

Ingredients from the website:

Malt: Munich, Pilsner, Vienna

Hops: Nugget, Palisade, Simcoe, Tomahawk, Warrior

HopBack Hops:Nugget

Troegs Nugget Nectar has an alcohol content of 7.5% by volume with 93 IBUs. The price is the only downside, as it runs $13.49 a six-pack at Total Wine in North Carolina. ½ star off for that.

Troegs Nugget Nectar pours to a deep orange amber color with a thick creamy head and a big grassy herbal, resiny and grapefruit peel aroma. Taking a sip, the beer is rich and full in body with thick caramel and toasty malt quickly yielding to a massive herbaceous hop aroma and flavor. The hops are grassy, sticky, piney, and a tad citrusy in the bitter peel kind of way. They’re resiny and beautiful and all around wonderful. This is how IPA (or imperial amber ale) should be.

Bursting with resiny pine, robust with malt, this is a winner, folks.

Update 6/23/2022: As per usual, Tröegs Nugget Nectar is a sheer delight, a wonderful beer, packed with caramel and toasty malts, and earthy and resiny-piney hops. This time, I am enjoying it in a pint can. The can says this is a once-a-year beer, and I got my can from Half Time Beverage and paid $5.99 for it. Total Wine sells it in 4-packs of pint cans for $10.49, as well as six-packs of 12-ounce cans ($12.99) and bottles ($13.99). The pint cans then are the best deal. My can is stamped on the bottom FRESHEST BY MAY 11 2022. I got it on June 17th, so it was already past that date. Still, it was quite delicious and showed no ill effects.

Glad I tried it?  T

Would I rebuy it??

 

*Pricing data accurate at time of review or latest update. For reference only, based on actual price paid by reviewer.

(B)=Bottled, Canned

(D)=Draft





 

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