Nugget Nectar (#homebrew)

After our visit to Troegs yesterday, and a check of my brewing inventory today, I see I have all the ingredients to brew a clone of this beer.

Malts: Pilsner, Vienna, Munich
Hops: Nugget, Warrior, Tomahawk, Simcoe®, Palisade
Hopback Hops: Whole Leaf Nugget
Dry Hop: Nugget, Warrior

ABV: 7.5%
IBU: 93ish
Color: Straw/Orange

So much to brew, so little time.

Dang! Troegs Makes Good Beer

D and I popped into Troegs yesterday after the rally and boy did we have a great time.

Wall to wall SRO beer drinkers enjoyin' a 1000 pints, and just plain good people enjoying a beautiful sunny late winter afternoon out and about and stoppin' in to enjoy some dang good beer.

We enjoyed a couple pints each of the last the the Nugget Nectar. Sweet! Not much carbonation to speak of and a excellent balance of malt and hop flavors. Really easy drinkin'. By the time you read this, it may be too late to get some. Better luck next year.

Met up with J (a bike racer) who had biked up from Lancaster on a training ride. His family met him there. Did we share some great memories of bike racing, training, riding, beer drinkin' stories, gluten-free beer ideas, and such. Isn't that what beer's all about? I think so.

The barkeep told us Sunshine Pils is now brewing. Can you say Summer is just around the bend of the draught faucet?

Will miss this location when they move to Hershey. Will be 15 minutes closer for me though, so in every cloud there is a silver lining.

Troegenator

well.

here we are.

It's a beeeee-you-teeee-full day in PA and we're in Pennsylvania's capital, Harrisburg (don't hold governmental corruption against the brewery, please[!]), and home to Troegs brewery and their magnificent Troegenator® Double Bock, the gold medal winner in the German style bock category of the 2010 World Beer Cup.

the last time i had this great brew was out of a bottle.

in the winter.

cooled in the snow.

in the middle of an engine swap of BroJ's Focus.

Good then on draught in a pint. Better now.

Best part of every day.

A fitting end to Old Man Winter

Sitting here basking in the late Winter, late afternoon sunshine, it's fitting that I'm doing so with the Troegenator.

One last wonderful pint.

Good bye Old Man, see you next Winter.

Hey Tazio, what's in the Beer Meister?

I just got done rake'n (but are you ever really done), and had a hellacious hanker'n for Lager. So...to make a long story wet, I have a fresh 1/4 of Yuengling Lager rapidly emptying.

And one for the real men: A fresh 1/6 of Troegs Troegenator Double Bock.

Eggggggggggggssssalentttttttttttttttttttttt!