Sierra Nevada Torpedo Extra IPA

Brewed by Sierra Nevada Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Chico, California USA

Wow, I am surprised the rating aren’t a bit higher. I thought this beer was fantastic. I love the Pale Ale and I felt that this beer was like the Pale Ale x2. It had such a smooth mouth feel and an excellent hoppy bite. I will be purchasing another.

Ummmmm......... no! Decent beer, but over rated on this site. Had a good many and I can say that this is above average at best. Very solid beer, but 3.8 is a little high for me. I prefer the Pale Ale more than this one. Good solid beer describes it best. Nothing wrong, nothing that makes it stand out.

Thanks to ghawener. Good, solid beer....Well balanced, pours amber/gold. If you are a hop lover this is just what the doctor ordered.

Reddish amber beer with a big, but quickly dicipating off-white head. This a beautiful looking beer. Aroma is, as expected, floral and piney, with big cascade hop notes and not much else. First sip is a bit too hoppy, which sounds like an odd thing to say for an extra IPA, but it was a bit decimating on the palate. The next few sips were a bit mellower, probably due to the beer warming up a bit. Bitter all the way through, not enough malt to balance it out.

12 oz bottle. Pours a clear orange body with a nicely frothy beige head that showed great retention and left beautiful heavy lacing. Big grapefruity hop nose with minimal interference from the malt. This just smells so fresh and juicy. The flavor shows lots of hoppiness with a very restrained bitterness level. Fresh and bright tasting with tangerine and grapefruit. Plenty of caramel and toasty malt, but it’s really just an accent to the great hops. Mouthfeel is medium bodied with moderate fizzy carbonation. Some slight resiny stickiness on the long lingering finish. Another quality offering from Sierra Nevada, these guys ARE IPA.

Pours an orange-y amber color and crystal clear. Smell is sweet for an IPA, not a lot of the heavenly floral scents like you get with other West Coast IPAs (though this one has been sitting around a while so most of the more potent aromas have dissipated). Bitterness is appropriate. Tastes solid and earthy (grassy?) and finishes dry, leaving a kind of grapefruit-like aftertaste. This is an IPA done well.

12oz bottle from Rollin’ Oats (Tampa, FL). Pours a dark orange amber color with a one finger creamy off-white head that settles slowly. Aroma is sweet and floral with notes of citrus, pine, grapefruit, flowery hops, light notes of caramel and malt. Flavor is sweet and floral with notes of grass, pine, citrus, grapefruit, floral hops, caramel and malt. Generally medium body with a pleasing floral hop finish.

Pours a nice copper color nice hop aromas and malt sweetness. Tastes nice and sweet with a good hop bite for balance. Hop flavors are grassy and some citrus. This is a solid brew that hits the the IPA mark on the head. One comment , I prefer the more citrus and floral hops from the western USA. This beer seems to have been crafted from more traditional English hop varieties.