Special Nugget Nectar Batch?

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  1. TongoRad

    TongoRad Grand Pooh-Bah (3,884) Jun 3, 2004 New Jersey
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    John- jeez, I envy those who got to enjoy those special kegs of HopBack, that sounds like it would be awesome (though not as overall balanced as NN). As to the relationship between that beer and Nugget Nectar, it comes from Troegs' website:

    " Starting with the same base ingredients of our flagship HopBack Amber Ale, Nugget Nectar intensifies the malt and hop flavors to create an explosive hop experience."

    http://www.troegs.com/our_brews/nugget_nectar.aspx
     
    #41 TongoRad, Sep 7, 2012
  2. John_M

    John_M Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,849) Oct 25, 2003 Washington
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    :-) I stand corrected.

    I'm surprised to hear this, as IMHO, the hopped up versions of hopback were NOTHING like NN. The special kegs of hopback (UJ's had a gravity feed firkin for one of their events several years ago) were arguably as hoppy as NN, but were much drier and with a completely different malt profile (not nearly as juicy and/or fruity).
     
    #42 John_M, Sep 7, 2012
  3. shadowane

    shadowane Zealot (631) Sep 7, 2007 Pennsylvania

    Eh, don't you think brewing something with all the hops is way different than just dry hopping a cask? Just like adding hops at different time during the boil changes what those hops do quite a bit.

    edit: Also dry hopping isn't going to raise the ABV 2+%.
    edit2: Unless I'm misunderstanding what Double Dry Hop Hopback is and it's really a special version of it and not just something on cask. If it's that, I'd still argue that the base recipe would be the same, but the double dry hop part causes the divergence.
     
    #43 shadowane, Sep 7, 2012
  4. otispdriftwood

    otispdriftwood Initiate (0) Dec 9, 2011 Colorado

    I anticipated the NN release last year with great expectations, only to be let down. But, I didn't give it another chance with a later batch and as far as some of the posts here indicate, I should have. I will anticipate the 2013 release with great expectations again, hoping it is as good as the 2011 and previous years' versions. Everybody should get a pass. As far as the guy who said he's finished with Troeg's, I say, Great! More for the rest of us.
     
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  5. John_M

    John_M Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,849) Oct 25, 2003 Washington
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    Probably, but as I don't brew, I don't really know.

    It just seemed to me that hopback really doesn't have much in common with NN, and dry hopping the hell out of it seemed like the most comparable beer I could think of to NN (assuming it's just a hopped up version of hopback). Sure, I woulldn't expect the two beers to be identical (or even all that similar), but these two beers had virtually nothing in common (except that they were both pretty hoppy).
     
    #45 John_M, Sep 7, 2012
  6. shadowane

    shadowane Zealot (631) Sep 7, 2007 Pennsylvania

    It's not just a hopped up version. It's stronger too.
     
    #46 shadowane, Sep 7, 2012
  7. John_M

    John_M Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,849) Oct 25, 2003 Washington
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    Yup. See my previous comment about the two beers having virtually nothing in common.
     
    #47 John_M, Sep 7, 2012
  8. cavedave

    cavedave Grand Pooh-Bah (4,157) Mar 12, 2009 New York
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    I gotta remember to put the phrase back onto my profile page, "If you have the least bit of suspicion that a post of mine is sarcasm, it definitely is" that has gone missing since the old site crashed. Maybe some kind of smilie was needed, thought the sarcasm was pretty obvious.
     
    #48 cavedave, Sep 7, 2012
  9. John_M

    John_M Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,849) Oct 25, 2003 Washington
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    LOL!!! Sorry, I just read your post again, and I STILL didn't get the sarcasm (even if in retrospect, it seems kind of obvious). My bad... chalk it up to a long work week, and still getting over from jet lag after a trip out West. Cheers!
     
    #49 John_M, Sep 7, 2012
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  10. cavedave

    cavedave Grand Pooh-Bah (4,157) Mar 12, 2009 New York
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    My humor is just dry enough for my tastes, usually way too dry for others', something I need to remember more often. Cheers!
     
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  11. drtth

    drtth Initiate (0) Nov 25, 2007 Pennsylvania
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    Well Cavedave, its hard for us to see the twinkle in your eye.
     
    #51 drtth, Sep 7, 2012
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  12. oneraindog

    oneraindog Crusader (464) Oct 6, 2003 Pennsylvania

    if you look back to the earliest descriptions of nugget nectar we have always described it as the same base recipe as hopback with twice the specialty malts and three times the hops -- that's still pretty much true -- we just dropped the comparison a long time ago.
     
    #52 oneraindog, Sep 8, 2012
  13. beast464

    beast464 Pundit (884) Apr 6, 2008 Maryland
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    Now Frisco is going to have it next Wednesday. Sure it's not a special batch?
     
    #53 beast464, Sep 20, 2012
  14. brees6221

    brees6221 Initiate (0) Aug 4, 2009 Western Sahara

    Yes, Frisco is having a Troeg's night but will there be Nugget Nectar? I doubt it (unless you found that specific info somewhere, please link to it).
     
    #54 brees6221, Sep 20, 2012
  15. beast464

    beast464 Pundit (884) Apr 6, 2008 Maryland
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    #55 beast464, Sep 20, 2012
  16. brees6221

    brees6221 Initiate (0) Aug 4, 2009 Western Sahara

    Also, did the OP or anyone else go to Lure's on the 12th and have a pint? I'd be interested to see a review.
     
    #56 brees6221, Sep 20, 2012
  17. brees6221

    brees6221 Initiate (0) Aug 4, 2009 Western Sahara

    #57 brees6221, Sep 20, 2012
  18. beast464

    beast464 Pundit (884) Apr 6, 2008 Maryland
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    I didn't go to the one at Lures
     
    #58 beast464, Sep 20, 2012
  19. John_M

    John_M Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,849) Oct 25, 2003 Washington
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    Not to bash Frisco's, but this would not be the first time they have announced a tap line-up for an event that included kegs they didn't have. Granted, it's been a few years since the infamous Stone event fiascos at the old place, but nevertheless, it would not suprise me at all if they didn't actually have a keg of NN for the Troegs event.
     
    #59 John_M, Sep 21, 2012
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