Sierra Nevada Brewing Company Atomic Torpedo Imperial IPA

Atomic Torpedo Imperial IPA

 

Sierra Nevada Brewing Company in Chico, California, United States 🇺🇸

  IPA - Imperial / Double Rotating
Score
7.42
ABV: 9.2% IBU: 50 Ticks: 73
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!
 

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7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Silo. Aromas are pretty basic, slightly old resin and citrus with malt in back. Flavors are much better and similar to nose, old hops recede, tasting fresher, with good citrus and maybe some peaches. Great balance between bitter, sweet and carbonation. Full-bodied and bittersweet finish. Nice beer.

Tried from Can from La Crosse People's Food Co-op on 01 Jan 2025 at 18:43

gave a cheers!

7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Can, 0.355l. Cloudy golden/copper pour, three finger creamy off-white head, medium retention, sticky lacing on the glass. Nose is ripe tropical fruits, caramel, pineapple, herbal notes in the background. Full body, soft carbonation. Smooth mouthfeel and texture, soft, chewy, creamy. Very nice. Balanced taste, juicy sweet with bitterness in the background. Aroma of caramel malt, ripe tropical fruits, pineapple and tangerine, citrus peel. Herbal notes, light spice. Alcohol lingering in the background. Sticky. Quite dry. Long lasting finish, juicy, bitter, dry, boozy. Quite enjoyable.

Tried from Can on 19 Dec 2024 at 16:29


7.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Golden with a white head - Hop aroma with some fruity and herbal - Malt body with a herbal hop flavour that has some good bitterness that goes dry - The herbal hop flavours goes into the finish that ends dry - This was good

Tried on 14 Dec 2024 at 22:22


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Can, 12 fl.oz. from Base Camp. Canned May 28th 2024. Hazy deeper golden body, off-white thick head. Orange jelly and herbal aroma, resinous, still holding on well. Solid body, more dry than expected, not too sweet, though the maltiness is definitely there in the background, soft, battered by the hop profile, citric, tangerine, big herbal notes as well, ending fairly dry. Need to try this fresh, it's definitely showing promise!

Tried from Can on 06 Dec 2024 at 23:02

gave a cheers!

8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Fucking massive can. Sierra Nevada online. Clear pale-ish gold. Very decent lasting white foam. Menthol hoppage on top of sticky grain. Drinks stupid easy. Lengthy bitterness to finish. Six months since packaging and it’s boss.

Tried from Can on 05 Dec 2024 at 20:22


7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

(canned 20241023 and rated 20241130, 5+ weeks old) 12oz can pours with a crystal clear copper colored body that has thin golden hues and supports a full dirty white head of foam. The aroma offers up pine hops, grapefruit, grapefruit rind, tangerine and then a sense of the maltiness in the background. The taste delivers a blend of sweet malts and tangy citrus initially creating a fairly pleasing experience. To midway it picks up mild pine hops and at the other end of the hop spectrum a bit of soft mango and pineapple like hop flavors. It does lean on the sweeter side and would benefit with far more bitter hoppiness. Pretty nice but the sweetness does become distracting.

Tried from Can on 01 Dec 2024 at 04:35


7.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Stupidly large can. Pours a copper color with full head. Aromas of pine, resin, candied grapefruit, caramel and dough malts. Flavors follow same with more fruitiness and malts. But what is with the stupid big can for a high ABV beer. Beautiful beer but mines points for the packaging

Tried from Can on 08 Nov 2024 at 23:57


7.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Can from Pivný raj Oh I love this one, torpedo on steroids. What more to ask for.

Tried from Can on 27 Oct 2024 at 10:40


7

Can. Pours a clear orange hue with a large white head. A big sweet citrus nose. Resin, sugary sweet hops and a big malt backbone. Almost bw like. Very good.

Tried from Can on 26 Oct 2024 at 04:36


8.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

29th September 2024
Near clear gold beer, small bubbly pale cream colour head. Light palate, smooth until some decent fine minerally carbonation comes through on the back end. Light smooth clean malts, a nice light sweetness. Smooth cooling pine. Lovely light hoppy fruits, slightly resinous into slightly floral fruits, quite a broad spectrum of hop fruits, slightly fruit pastilles! The lightest touch of hop spice on the finish. What a delight. Clean as a whistle and a wonderful diversion from the yeasty bastards that assail us from all directions these days. Okay, many of them are really rather good, okay? But this is still a nice change and rather a nice beer eh what?

Tried on 29 Sep 2024 at 21:31