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Nugget Single Hop IPA
Mikkeller ApS
- From:
- Mikkeller ApS
- Denmark
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 6.9%
- Score:
- 86
- Avg:
- 3.82 | pDev: 9.42%
- Reviews:
- 131
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jun 02, 2016
- Added:
- May 07, 2009
- Wants:
- 2
- Gots:
- 6
Introduced in May 2009.
Ingredients: Water, malts (pilsner, cara-crystal and munich), hops (nugget) and yeast.
Ingredients: Water, malts (pilsner, cara-crystal and munich), hops (nugget) and yeast.
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Ratings by ChainGangGuy:
Reviewed by ChainGangGuy from Georgia
4/5 rDev +4.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev +4.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Let's pit the Nugget Single Hop versus the Cascade, Warrior, and Simcoe versions.
Appearance: Pours out cloudy, burnt orange body with a full inch of lasting, off-white foam.
Smell: Delicately toasted malts with notes of cookies and grains with a floral, herbaceous hop aroma.
Taste: Lightly toasted base maltiness with a touch of dry caramel and crumbled cookies, though with only a light, restrained amount of sweetness. The Nugget hops serve up a floral, herbal taste with an underlying earthiness. Medium-plus bitterness. Finishes dry, crisp, and with some continued bitterness into the aftertaste.
Mouthfeel: Medium-bodied. Medium-plus carbonation.
Drinkability: I certainly enjoy the concept of a single hop series to really enjoy all the various vibrant nuances and characteristics of the particular hop varieties utilized. While this was previously done by Bison, I had no love for the base beer used, so I quickly abandoned the idea of following that series. I'm diggin' this though!
Aug 15, 2009Appearance: Pours out cloudy, burnt orange body with a full inch of lasting, off-white foam.
Smell: Delicately toasted malts with notes of cookies and grains with a floral, herbaceous hop aroma.
Taste: Lightly toasted base maltiness with a touch of dry caramel and crumbled cookies, though with only a light, restrained amount of sweetness. The Nugget hops serve up a floral, herbal taste with an underlying earthiness. Medium-plus bitterness. Finishes dry, crisp, and with some continued bitterness into the aftertaste.
Mouthfeel: Medium-bodied. Medium-plus carbonation.
Drinkability: I certainly enjoy the concept of a single hop series to really enjoy all the various vibrant nuances and characteristics of the particular hop varieties utilized. While this was previously done by Bison, I had no love for the base beer used, so I quickly abandoned the idea of following that series. I'm diggin' this though!
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by rodbeermunch from Nevada
3.41/5 rDev -10.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.41/5 rDev -10.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Orange colored ipa. 1/2" white head. Not a lot going for it aroma wise.
Taste also is minimized, the nugget hop (which I grow) is very pungent but this one doesn't come through in terms of aromatics, bitterness or flavor. I guess bitterness is most pronounced of the three. Malt kept in the background for the most part to give the hop a showcase.
The price for a 12oz bottle is almost what you'd pay for a 6 pack of better hoppier beer (SNPA), so this is a decent beer that is a no go for me.
Jun 02, 2016Taste also is minimized, the nugget hop (which I grow) is very pungent but this one doesn't come through in terms of aromatics, bitterness or flavor. I guess bitterness is most pronounced of the three. Malt kept in the background for the most part to give the hop a showcase.
The price for a 12oz bottle is almost what you'd pay for a 6 pack of better hoppier beer (SNPA), so this is a decent beer that is a no go for me.
Reviewed by CalgaryFMC from Canada (AB)
3.71/5 rDev -2.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.71/5 rDev -2.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Bottle snagged from an Edmonton liquor store, poured into a standard ol' pub glass. Curious to see how this old school, grassy/herbal, likely on the way out hop variety comes across in one of these malt-forward Mikkeller concoctions. Brew is quite dark, a ruddy brown amber with around a half inch of creamy beige foam that leaves a thick residue on the glass like a half-consumed milkshake. Aroma is sweetly malty like most other Mikkeller single hops, toffee and a hint of chocolate although there is also an assertive herbal hop note, flowers and pine with faint tangerine. Smells cleanly bitter. People seem to taste all kinds of different stuff in this one and I am getting more citrus than on the nose, predominantly lemon I'd say, chamomile tea, underripe plum, fresh bitter herbs. Not super piney or fruity as one might expect, with a nice clean bitterness. Thick bodied with a pleasant malty toast and cereal backdrop. The tea-like green bitterness builds up nicely and near the end I am wanting a second. Not bad for such a workmanlike non-sexy hop. Almost getting a ginger-like floral spicy heat in the finish. The malts are intrusive, a little, but not overly so. My expectations were not that high and this exceeded them handily. Try to appreciate the traditional flavors.
Jun 17, 2014
Nugget Single Hop IPA from Mikkeller ApS
Beer rating:
86 out of
100 with
196 ratings
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