Tröegs Nugget Nectar - Tröegs Brewing Company

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rAvg: 4.39
pDev: 9.79%
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Tröegs Brewing Company

Pennsylvania, United States

Style | ABV
American Amber / Red Ale | 7.50% ABV

Availability: Spring. bottle (1943), on-tap (129), cask (59), growler (33), nitro-tap (1).

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DrDoitchbig

Michigan

4.38/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

A big thanks to wunderbeer for this one!

Appearance: Poured a fairly dark shade of amber with orange highlights. The slightly off-white head started at around two fingers and faded fairly quickly into an iceberg in the center of my glass. I was expected more lacing from this one, but all I was left with was a few haphazard splotches.

Smell: The hops in this dominant, but not as much as I expected. Getting a lot of apricot and grapefruit, the hops in this are extremely fruit centric. The malt backbone beneath the hops brings up tones of caramel and biscuit. There's also a splash of floral hops in here. It's a great aroma, but I wouldn't have enjoyed it even more if it was kicked up a couple notches.

Taste: This beer has an awesome dynamic bitterness to it. The different hop flavors are at war with each other, in a good way. At the beginning the fruity apricot and grapefruit flavors of the smell were completely in charge. As I continued to drink the floral hops from the smell faded in and out growing stronger until they became the dominant. Even further along the fruity hops came back with a vengeance. It's a very cool experience, every couple of sips were slightly different than the last. The constant here is the balancing caramel malt and perhaps a dose of toasted grain. This sure isn't your daddy's amber ale, it's much better.

Mouthfeel: Solid medium body, spot on for the style. The creaminess here is almost unparalleled by anything I've had out of a bottle short of an Imperial Stout. I felt the carbonation was touch on the low side, but didn't detract to much. Just enough to prevent a perfect 5.

Drinkability: I've had a couple of these highly hopped reds and I've come to the conclusion that I'm a big proponent of the fusion of styles. There is something about the combination of IPA like hop levels with the malt backbone of a red that keeps me coming back for more.

I think if Nugget Nectar was distributed in Michigan and wasn't a seasonal it would own some permanent real estate in my fridge. It's a damn shame I only have one more bottle.

Serving type: bottle

03-09-2010 06:41:24 | More by DrDoitchbig