Special Nugget Nectar Batch?

I would be more pissed about the fact that you probably had to buy a case to get a good per bottle price. But I digress...Troeg's is considered by many, including me*, to be PA's best brewery. I wouldn't give up on them just yet. As someone mentioned, if you wrote off every brewery for making a beer you didn't like, there would be nothing left to drink.

*Tired Hands is probably a popular choice right now, but they're a small brewpub that's been open for three months and are soon to release their first bottled beer. Give them time.

P.S. I have an idea! TH buys the old General Lafayette and turns it into their production facility. You're welcome.

 

Sounds good to me!

 

This year's Nugget Nectar in bottles was rather unimpressive, but I had some on tap and it was damn good. Both were fresh, so I'm not sure what the problem was there exactly.

 

Probably a lot like cat pee.

 

Both bottle and tap were bad experiences for me. Must be some batch variation.

 

I'm having one right now. Was sitting in the fridge (by neglect not design). Whoever mainatains these DIPAs are good after sitting (I recognize the gravity of weighing in on this) is off the mark. This beer is now totally one sided, there's no redeeming aspect.

This might be my favorite beer (for a variety of reasons), but a NN in September? Probabaly wouldn't give a dollar for it at a yard sale.

 

I agree about Perpetual, but isn't Nugget Nectar just a hoppy Amber Ale? So, not an IPA at all?

 

whatever it actually is, it's closer to an IPA than anything else it might be. i would never describe the beer to anyone that hasn't had it as a 'hoppy amber'... was what i was trying to say.

 

I'm probably dragging us into a no-win style argument, but Amber is a real style. Nugget Nectar is an amber base that is very hoppy. It's not an IPA and I wouldn't describe it as such. It's maltier, fruiter, and has a breadiness about it that IPAs don't have. I guess it could be semantics but you can say that about a lot of styles. As I said, though, I totally agree about Perpetual just being an IPA and them pretending it isn't as a nice joke. I just disagree about Nugget Nectar.

 

I'm fine with comparing it to an IPA since they are both hoppy, but that doesn't make it an IPA just because of that. I guess Amber / Red Ale doesn't have a ton of examples but they are out there. Your argument boils down trying to explain a style to someone that doesn't know the style which makes sense. It doesn't make the style wrong though.

As far as the imperial part, I just chalk that up to saying its ABV is stronger than say 8% or so which is funny since Nugget Nectar is only 7.5%.

edit: Also you totally took Lauren's side and now I hate you. Sorry!

edit2: Also also, this is a silly tangent that I started in a thread about hilariously old Nugget Nectar being sold. We should probably just stop since it really doesn't matter either way.

 

o hai guyz. what's going on in here?

 

Does nobody realize that every single time Nugget Nectar is brought up these are the arguments that ensue?

 

Haha. I literally looked at it out of morbid curiosity. I left with a headache.

 

It's a ramped-up version of Hop Back, which is clearly an Amber Ale even if it is on the hoppy side. The Imperial part just indicates that it has increased malt and hopping rates. I don't think that makes it a style of its own, it's just Troegs' way of classifying it, and it makes sense so long as you are familiar with Hop Back. There is definitely some overlap with an IPA, though, so you could probably approach it from either direction if you were to describe it to somebody.

(This has probably also been said before, but what the hell, the genie is out of the bottle )

 

Really? I've been a member here for a good long time and I don't think I have ever seen the IPA vs Amer. Amber argument about NN.

I think I am going to start a thread now about how not just NN, but lots of beers don't taste as well as previous years' did, another topic ripe for discussion.