Torpedo
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company in Chico, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - West Coast Regular|
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7.36
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Sierra Nevada Torpedo Ale is a big American IPA; bold, assertive and full of flavor and aromas highlighting the complex citrus, pine and herbal character of whole-cone American hops. Our obsession with harnessing huge hop flavor led to the development of what we call the hop torpedo, a revolutionary method of dry-hopping designed, built, and debuted here at the brewery. Our torpedo is a sleek, stainless-steel piece of hardware that delivers more pure hop aroma than any method of dry-hopping we’ve ever seen.
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7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
710ml bottle. Pours a slightly hazy red-orange with a large, frothy, long lasting, off-white head that leaves curtains of lace. Sweet aroma of caramel malt, grapefruit and pine. Sweet flavour of caramel malt, grapefruit, orange, pine needles and grass with a dry, bitter, hoppy finish. Medium body with an oily texture and soft carbonation. Tasty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 May 2016
at 23:41
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 9
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You:4.35 | rDev +4.8% | From:Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. California, United StatesStyle:American IPA
Ranked #140ABV:7.2%Score:92
Ranked #3,410Avg:4.15 | pDev: 10.84%Reviews:3,149Ratings:11,742Status:ActiveRated:Saturday at 05:41 PMAdded:May 11, 2006 by GClarkageWants: 416Gots: 3,544
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Torpedo Extra IPATorpedo Extra IPA
It started as a napkin sketch in a pub, an idea for a device that could boost hop aroma without adding more bitterness. We built the sketch, and the “Hop Torpedo” revolutionized dry hopping and inspired Torpedo, one of our favorite IPA style beers. It’s an aggressive yet balanced beer featuring the complex citrus, pine, and herbal character of whole-cone hops.
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Reviewed by Bitterbill from Wyoming
4.35/5 rDev +4.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Bought locally for just over $9 a sixpack including tax.
This pours a very bright clear gold colour with about an inch of foam.
The smell is very hoppy with pine and citrus being well represented. Heck, I even get a decent caramel malt presence after more sniffing. I'm hoping that the malt is more assertive in the taste than the smell as I'm just in the mod for a balanced IPA.
The taste has big hop flavours up front with lots of citrus and grass, pine as well though more noticeable to me in the smell, and...yep...sandwiched in between I can defintely taste a good malt backbone that culminates about mid palate and just before the finish. The finish itself is hop dominated but there's still a smidgeon of malt there and it cuts into the bitterness nicely.
It has a medium mouthfeel and the carbonation is also medium but just saying that doesn't put it in proper perspective. Let me just say for the category, it's excellent.
Drinkability? Very tasty, unintrusive alcohol, nice mouthfeel, easy drinking...I think this is a terrific IPA that begged over and over for another sip. Sierra Nevada hit another home run with this one!
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You:4.35 | rDev +4.8% | From:Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. California, United StatesStyle:American IPA
Ranked #140ABV:7.2%Score:92
Ranked #3,410Avg:4.15 | pDev: 10.84%Reviews:3,149Ratings:11,742Status:ActiveRated:Saturday at 05:41 PMAdded:May 11, 2006 by GClarkageWants: 416Gots: 3,544
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92
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Torpedo Extra IPATorpedo Extra IPA
It started as a napkin sketch in a pub, an idea for a device that could boost hop aroma without adding more bitterness. We built the sketch, and the “Hop Torpedo” revolutionized dry hopping and inspired Torpedo, one of our favorite IPA style beers. It’s an aggressive yet balanced beer featuring the complex citrus, pine, and herbal character of whole-cone hops.
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Reviewed by Bitterbill from Wyoming
4.35/5 rDev +4.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Bought locally for just over $9 a sixpack including tax.
This pours a very bright clear gold colour with about an inch of foam.
The smell is very hoppy with pine and citrus being well represented. Heck, I even get a decent caramel malt presence after more sniffing. I'm hoping that the malt is more assertive in the taste than the smell as I'm just in the mod for a balanced IPA.
The taste has big hop flavours up front with lots of citrus and grass, pine as well though more noticeable to me in the smell, and...yep...sandwiched in between I can defintely taste a good malt backbone that culminates about mid palate and just before the finish. The finish itself is hop dominated but there's still a smidgeon of malt there and it cuts into the bitterness nicely.
It has a medium mouthfeel and the carbonation is also medium but just saying that doesn't put it in proper perspective. Let me just say for the category, it's excellent.
Drinkability? Very tasty, unintrusive alcohol, nice mouthfeel, easy drinking...I think this is a terrific IPA that begged over and over for another sip. Sierra Nevada hit another home run with this one!
Tried
from Can
on 26 Apr 2016
at 13:26
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Unclear, copper colored, medium creamy off white head, good lasting nice lacing. Aroma is of some caramel malt, light biscuit, medium+pine, citrus and fruits. Taste is medium sweet caramalt and biscuit, some tropical fruits, orange, mostly pine and grapefruit, medium+ aroma and bitterness, dry finish, lasting aftertaste, light bread in finish. Medium+ bodied, soft carbonation, oily. (bottle, Vrutak, Zagreb)
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Apr 2016
at 10:56
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Sötét borostyán szín, nagy, nagyon tartós hab. Ipás illatfelhő, narancsos, mandarinos jegyekkel. Édeskés, trópusi gyümölcsös, lágy ipa, visszafogott gyantával, de határozott keserűvel. Jó összhang jellemzi. Utóíze a korty folytatása, a keserűje nagyon sokáig megmarad. Testes, de nem nehéz, jól iható.
Tried
on 08 Apr 2016
at 08:12
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
On tap at Craft Room, Opatovina, Zagreb, Croatia. Clear to hazy copper, small off white head. Fruity hops, caramel, shrimp. Medium body, some bitterness. Dusty, wooden plank, bitter. Medium to heavy carbonation. Biscuit. Lasting fruity hoppy finish. A classic.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Jan 2016
at 14:01
7.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 6
Poured into a SA Perfect Pint showing dark copper with a finger of clean white foam. The nose shows light sweet caramel malts, not much hop influence. The palate shows well carbonated but smooth and full bodied. Very tea like with flavors of sweet ice tea and a slightly astringent tea like finish. Mostly malts but easy to go down.
Tried
on 11 Jan 2016
at 04:21
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle @home, on Christmas Eve. Pours clear amber with thick, creamy, lasting off-white head, medium body, oily texture. Very good lacing. Citrus, orange, grapefruit, pine on the nose. Caramel and bread malts, heavy hop presence. Strong bitter dry finish with hints of malty sweetness. Very refreshing, tasty and drinkable. Interesting IPA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Dec 2015
at 15:30