Atomic Torpedo Imperial IPA
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company in Chico, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Rotating|
Score
7.43
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This imperial hop collision fuses West Coast and Juicy IPAs, unleashing atomic flavors of lush fruit, citrus, and sticky pine.
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!
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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7.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Creamy white good mostly lasting head. yellow colour. Moderate malty and hoppy aroma. Heavy bitter flavor. Long heavy bitter finish. Oily palate.
Tried
from Can
on 18 Mar 2026
at 10:07
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Can. Pours clear golden with a foamy off-white head, citrus aroma, adequate carbonation, bitterish citrus peel taste, faint alcohol undertones, thin body, long bitterish finish. Good DIPA.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Feb 2026
at 19:17
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Pours bit unclear, warm amberblonde. Small white head. Scent is quite pine forward. Round and full. Taste is full, quite bitter, very pine forward. Very outspoken. Crystal malts, but not to sweet. Bready. Very enjoyable !!
Tried
on 31 Dec 2025
at 22:23
8/10
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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.
Tried
on 01 Nov 2025
at 10:29
8/10
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Tried
from Can
on 25 Oct 2025
at 18:57
7.5/10
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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.
Tried
from Can
from
Point Fuel & Pantry
on 24 Aug 2025
at 05:04
7.6/10
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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
Tried
on 07 Aug 2025
at 21:34
6.6/10
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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.
Tried
from Can
on 07 Jul 2025
at 21:18
7.3/10
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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.
Tried
from Can
on 15 Jun 2025
at 18:21
7/10
Canned, pours orange amber, huge amounts of spicy hops pine and malts, spicy finish
Tried
from Can
on 20 May 2025
at 02:13