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
7.38
ABV: 9.2% IBU: 50 Ticks: 137
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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8.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 9 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 9
19oz can @ monthly tasting, Chez Sophie, Sep 23. Pours a clear amber with a frothy off-white head. Big piney resin aroma. Flavour profile is intensely piney sweet with a robust bitterness. Bringing back good memories of 2013-era craft.
Tried from Can on 26 Sep 2023 at 12:31

7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7
Clear dark golden towards brass, medium head, lasting laces. Pine and orange aroma. Fruity taste with pine and pear. Oily texture and balanced bitterness.
Tried on 23 Sep 2023 at 20:15

7.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
355ml can. Opalescent, orange golden colour with average, frothy to creamy, osteoporosing, moderately lacing, minimally sulphureous, white head. Condensed, slightly juicy, citrusy fruity and resinous, piney, hoppy aroma, pale and caramel malty background, notes of lemon, grapefruit, orange. Taste is surprisingly restrained and monotonous, condensed, bitter, citrusy fruity and piney hoppy, pale and slightly caramel malty basis with some residual sweetness, hints of lemon, grapefruit, orange, mandarine; lingering, bitter hoppy finish. Oily texture, smooth and soft, minimally greasy palate, fine, soft, mildly prickly carbonation. Condensed, relatively simple and monotonous - decent.
Tried from Can on 22 Sep 2023 at 21:36

7.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Clear amber. Aroma is tropic fruit honey pine light booze. Taste is sweet fruity with light sour prickly pear and nongrassy bitter hops. Heavy almost oily with notable booze. Very balanced and tasty. Nice stuff!
Tried on 12 Sep 2023 at 20:29

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Poured a copper color with a medium sized, slightly thick white head. Aroma was resin, tropical fruit hops, with citrus, and malts. Flavor was well balanced, with a nice hop kick to it. Pine, citrus, sweet malts. Quite good!
Tried on 09 Sep 2023 at 03:08

7.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Stovepipe can from The Gull, North Vancouver; 28 Mar 2023, 4.5 months old
Golden colour, clean. Malt and candied fruit in the aroma. Bold structure, moderate sweetness, with a juicy malt base; the bitterness is not even excessive, and the hops come with some orange and candied fruit character; definitively some alcohol in the finish, but not too hot.
Midway between old style and new style, very good. --- Beer merged from original tick of Atomic Torpedo on 19 Jun 2022 at 03:49 - Score: Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7. Original review text: Can from Elizabeth Station, Bellingham, WA, via Sergey
Light amber colour, clean, with medium head. Aroma of caramel, pine resin, some sweat and weed. Good body strength, lean, with light residual sweetness; moderate caramel flavour, with piney resins, and mild herbaceous character.
Good, but I'm unimpressed; it's a solid DIPA, rather old style even if well brewed.
Tried from Can on 19 Aug 2023 at 06:41


8/10
Tried from Can on 15 Aug 2023 at 21:44

7.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 9
Big bastard pint can, in the sun at home in Barbados, delivered to U.K. address, 13th August 23. Pours clear golden caramel. Aroma is pine resin and pithy. Taste is sweet, caramel, bitter, pithy, resinous, simple old Skool beast of a DIPA. --- Beer merged from original tick of Atomic Torpedo on 13 Oct 2022 at 17:29 - Score: Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5. Original review text: Massive can, at home, 13th October 22. Pours a clear caramel. Aroma is caramel and honey, pine and resin. Taste is malty, caramel and assertive resin and bitterness, citrus, pithy. It’s old school west coast as expected- so nice
Tried from Can on 13 Aug 2023 at 19:45

6.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Canned 355ml. -from Goblet Zagreb, shared with hrabren. Clear dark golden coloured, medium sized airy off-white head, caramel and light oxidation in the nose. Sweet malty, caramel, alcohol, light oxidation and herbs with rather sweet finish.
Tried from Can on 06 Aug 2023 at 19:37