Atomic Torpedo Imperial IPA
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company in Chico, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Rotating|
Score
7.42
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First released as a DIPA, we kicked Atomic Torpedo up from 8.2% to 9.2% ABV for bigger and bolder Imperial IPA intensity. Brace your taste buds: Damn the Torpedoes, Full Hops Ahead!
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Can from Beer Hive. Pours clear golden with a thin off-white head. Aromas of pine and caramel. Taste adds peach and orange. Warming finish. Enjoyed this.
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Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Gas station can, consumed at the beach. Fairly clean, the malts having a touch of chewiness but not a lot. Light alcohol, but less boozy than you'd expect, because there's a fair amount of bright hops, citrus, pine, a generic mix. But the balance was pretty good.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Can. Nose is sweet malt, brown sugar, pine, light tropical, honey. Taste is resin, pine, dough, brown sugar, lots of melon with a hint of peach, leading toa Spicey pine with a hint of mint in the sweet finish. Oily Mouthfeel
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
568ml can. Pours dark orange with a small head. Aroma is pine and caramel, with a little booze. Taste has pine, toffee and caramel.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Clear golden, white head. Solid sweet piney aroma. Sweet malty and piney flavour, piney, slightly perfumy finish. Quite sweet with lasting hop bite.
Canned, pours orange amber, huge amounts of spicy hops pine and malts, spicy finish
Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Can. Pours light cloudy dark golden with large white head. Aroma is intense spruce, resin, bitter grapefruit, lemon and hints of melon. Taste is medium to very sweet, very bitter and light acidic. Body is oily with medium carbonation. Finish is long and mostly bitter with notes of malt, resin, grapefruit, melon, perfume, soap and dried flowers.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Can picked up from Bierkiste, München and consumed the same day at home Thursday 13th March 2025 listening to Heartworms - Glutton for Punishment and cooking a Chicken Bhuna from the Curry Guy book. I really hadn't realised that this is a different beer from the regular Atomic Torpedo, however can design different abv upped and clearly a slightly ramped up version of that beer. Pours warm gold with a mid sized white head, there's a very slight haze. Lovely soft mouthfeel, huge malt and hop hit, the malty base is typical SN, I love this (v.large can shared with Loz), hoppy fumes down the nose (retronasal). Stupidly easy drinking for a 9.2% beer. Some resinous streakiness. Lovely.
