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
7.39
ABV: 9.2% IBU: 50 Ticks: 135
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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7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 8
Orange zest, elderflower, butterscotch, and pine sap. Sweet and malty, with a big, smooth, resinous bitterness. Medium to heavy body, slick, and zesty. Aggressive, balanced, and tasty.
Tried from Can from J&K Liquor on 25 Oct 2025 at 02:02

7.5/10 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 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 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 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 --- Beer merged from original tick of Atomic Torpedo on 20 May 2025 at 02:11 - Score: 7. Original review text: Big giant can. Creamy bug head pour spicy aromatic hops. Citrus and malt. Good
Tried from Can on 20 May 2025 at 02:13

7.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8
Can bought at the Dunneville Market and enjoyed with their amazing tri-tip!! Solid citrus with moderate dank balancing it out well. Slightly hazed dark gold with white head.
Tried from Can on 11 Apr 2025 at 17:12

7.4/10 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.
Tried from Can on 09 Apr 2025 at 22:06

8.2/10
Piney, malty and resinous
Tried from Can on 13 Mar 2025 at 19:53

7.8/10 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. --- Beer merged from original tick of Atomic Torpedo on 15 May 2022 at 14:01 - Score: Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5. Original review text: Can picked up from Sierra Nevada Cascade Club website and consumed at Scott and Mandy's, Dumbleton, Worcestershire, Sunday 15th May 2022 listening to Booka Shade - Blaze then To the Sea, about to cook a huge T-Bone Steak. Pours copper, good clarity with a white head. Nice bittersweet balance, fruity, malty, juicy, hoppiness throughout. This is very good but I think the standard Torpedo is better.
Tried from Can from Bierkiste on 13 Mar 2025 at 16:55