Atomic Torpedo Imperial IPA
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company in Chico, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Rotating|
Score
7.43
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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 - 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.
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.
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 !!
gave a cheers!
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