Tröegs Nugget Nectar 2023

$12.99 a six and $24.99 a twelve in NEPA. After an average experience with the cans, I did have better luck with the bottles. Much more vibrant beer. Par for the course with NN.

 

I haven't seen it this year yet, but I remember last year a store by me had it priced wrong at $10.99 for a 6-pack. They didn't notice for 2 weeks.

 

In your past experiences, have any of the canned versions had a notable, vibrant hop aroma?

Have any of the bottled versions have muted hop aroma?

Cheers!

 

When were the BB 5/6/23 bottled or canned? I assume Troegs is 4 months out from bottling to BB?

 

Unfortunately yes, I feel like I’m never sure what I will get. I have had better overall luck with bottles the last few years though. I usually really enjoy NN on draft so who knows, maybe it’s just me.

I just remember having bombers from when the brewery was in Harrisburg years ago and being completely blown away. Much like older Flower Power. I should probably just accept my tastes have changed and move on, lol.

 

I feel exactly the same way.

I had a dental appointment earlier today and I stopped on my way home to visit the Capones bottle shop. While looking over the beers I chatted with Matt Capone and one of our topics of conversation was Nugget Nectar and batch variability. I mentioned to Matt that I have not purchased Nugget Nectar in a long while since I never knew what I was going to get: will it be hoppy like it should or will it just be a malt-bomb?

Just before I got home I stopped at my local Giant supermarket to pick up a few groceries. I stopped by the singles section and to my great joy I saw some bottles of Victory DirtWolf so I immediately decided to place some of those beers in the six-pack holder and then I saw Samuel Smith Winter Welcome so two of those. I had one slot left and when I saw there were bottles of Nugget Nectar I stared at it and it was sort of situation of an angel on one shoulder and a devil on the other. I picked up the bottle and then I put it back but...that bottle did go into the last slot of the six-pack holder. It was like that scene for the movie Dirty Harry:



Cheers!

P.S. I will let you decide whether the angel or the devil 'won' in my decision to buy one bottle of Nugget Nectar.

@ESHBG I thought you might be interested in reading about this mix-a-six.

 

Well,...

I have somewhat good news to report. I drank my bottle of Nugget Nectar earlier this evening and it was most definitely not a malt-bomb. Having stated that the hop aroma in this beer did not exactly 'pop' but there was indeed a noticeable hop aroma to this beer. The batch of this bottle is "Freshest By 042723".

For completeness I personally will not be rushing out to purchase a sixpack of this batch of beer but if will visiting the singles section of a local beer retailer I might purchase another bottle (or two) of this specific batch of Nugget Necter.

Cheers!

 

Same batch of bottles I had. It was pretty good!

 

I'll answer my own question as I just picked up a 6 pack of bottles ($11.99).
Looks like a 2nd date is listed on the bottle BB 5/4/23 which seems to indicate it was bottled 1/3/23 so yes it is 4 months out. Happy to report NN is just as tasty as it was last year.

 

You made the right decision and glad to hear that you enjoyed it

Yep I was going to let you know that they have the bottling date within the code underneath the BB date.

 

Well, as I discussed above my intention is to maybe purchase a single (or two) of the same batch of Nugget Nectar as part of a mix-a-six in the future if I see them. I too will not be purchasing a six-pack of this beer.

Cheers!

 

I fully understand you here.

Cheers!

 

I took a chance on a sixer this year as I really looked forward to this beer and I actually slowed down drinking for awhile now.

 

Anyone hearing news of Double NN releasing this year? One of my favorite beers last year.

 

It's on tap at a few places by me (SEPA). FWIW, the cans I had last year were bb 5/19/22 so with a 4 month window, that's right about now for a release. Hoping to score some this year again-it wasn't easy last year. Good luck!

 

I think I saw an email from Troegs saying PA distribution starts Monday.