Atomic Torpedo Imperial IPA
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company in Chico, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Rotating|
Score
7.38
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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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7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Can at home, from HOTM online, 06/08/23. Clear golden amber with a good sized lasting off white head. Nose is bitter orange, grass, perfume, grapefruit, ripe melon, caramel malts. Taste comprises grapefruit, pine resin, melon, papaya, mandarin, juicy topical fruits. Medium bodied with bite, fine carbonation, semi drying close spliced with juicy come resinous hop bitterness. Solid old skool leaning DIPA ... easy drinking, juicy, laden with tropical fruits and carrying a balanced rising boost.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Aug 2023
at 17:38
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
0.355 l can from Goblet Beer Store, Zagreb. Shared with Ogi. Clear golden, small off-white head. Lightly hoppy, tropical, candy. A touch of alcohol. Some bitterness, quite heavy. Malty and fruity flavour. A bit empty.
Tried
from Can
on 03 Aug 2023
at 20:33
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Can at The Cure show at Blossom on 06/11/2023.
Tried
from Can
on 25 Jul 2023
at 16:59
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
355 ml can from Systembolaget. Slightly hazy golden colour with a thin white head. Fruity aroma with citrus, pines, pear, pilsner malts, and tropical impressions. The taste is bitter. Oily texture. Dry and bitter finish. Nice, dry old school stuff.
Tried
from Can
on 20 Jul 2023
at 17:56
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
A proper pint (imperial) can from a US brewery? How unusual. Pours clear amber with a slightly off-white head. Aroma of grapefruit, pine, resin, marmalade. Taste of some sweet malts, marmalade, caramel, and big juicy orange and grapefruit, piney, resinous hops, big bittersweet finish with some alcohol warmth. Solid old school DIPA.
Tried
from Can
on 19 Jul 2023
at 17:00
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Can. Clear amber with an off white head that fades to a cm quickly. Slightly toasty aroma with grapefruit and pine. Medium bodied with bread and some crust, then pleasant but less than vibrant citrus and pine and a bitter but smooth finish. --- Beer merged from original tick of Atomic Torpedo on 20 Jun 2022 at 13:46 - Score: Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8. Original review text: 568ml can, which is a strange size given they don't think it's a pint. Very clear amber with a large off white head. Aroma is less abrasive than a typical SN IPA but recognizable all the same - citrus, weeds, pine but also ripe tropical fruit and buns. That tropical sweetness continues into the taste before pine needles and spices take over towards the fairly bitter end. Dangerously drinkable. They seem to have done what they set out to do here and it's good.
Tried
from Can
on 14 Jul 2023
at 14:40
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Very sweet, dumbed-down from the lower-ABV earlier version, with a lot of grapefruit and melon and tropical notes all overshadowed by the all-encompassing sugary base. 90-Minute IPA and Big Little Thing are far superior, if you’re looking for a readily available 9% IPA. --- Beer merged from original tick of Atomic Torpedo on 16 Dec 2021 at 04:52 - Score: Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7. Original review text: Unexpectedly sweet, presenting a formidable caramel front laced with orange marmalade, grapefruit, and peach, followed by a moderate pine bitterness and a sugary fade. Good, but so much sweeter than Torpedo.
Tried
on 23 Jun 2023
at 01:02
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
1 pint can @ One Pint Pub. Pours cloudy amber with a low head. Aroma is sweet malts with pine. Flavor is sweet malts with pine, alcohol, hops. Very nice.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Jun 2023
at 17:02
8/10
Can at fyne fest 2023.. Big amber... Soft sweet oily fruit nose... Juicy sweet.. Oily piney.. Citrus fruit.. Juicy fruits.. Oily oily citrus.. Soft oily juicy hop
Tried
from Can
on 04 Jun 2023
at 12:04
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Burk från SB. Mörkt gyllenfärgad klar vätska med medelhögt vitt skum. Doft av persika, citrus och kåda. Rejäl kropp. Havrekex, karamell, marmelad, söta persikor, kåda, rejäl resinbeska med citrusvita. Smaskig klassisk västkust-DIPA. --- Beer merged from original tick of Atomic Torpedo on 16 Jul 2022 at 11:57 - Score: Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5. Original review text: Burk från SB. Klar gyllengul vätska med medelhögt skum. Stiltypisk västkust-IPA svår att skilja från den vanliga torpedon. Citrus, tallskott och karamell. Ganska (för) snäll men stabil. Gott
Tried
on 27 May 2023
at 14:10