Excellent head, nice citrus flavor. Nice bitterness at the end. Flavor improves as it warms. They use an innovative to dry hop their beer.
http://beeradvocate.com/news/1677284About the beer:
Contrary to popular belief Torpedo Ale is not a different version of Celebration. The confusion stems from the device itself. The name Torpedo stems from an invention that Ken Grossman and the brewers came up with several years ago. The Hop Torpedo is a cylindrical stainless steel vessel that was developed to harness the essential oils and resins in hops, without extracting bitterness. The device essentially works like an espresso machine. A stainless filter basket is packed full of whole cone hops loaded into the vessel and sealed against pressure. The device is then placed in the fermentation cellars where beer from the cylindroconical fermenters is pushed down from the tanks, through the pressurized column of hops and back into the fermenting tank. The flow of beer out of the tanks, into the Torpedo and back into the fermenter can be controlled to extract different levels of flavor, aroma and bitterness. Essentially, it is a new way of dry-hopping that extracts all of the oily resin without the residual bitterness of the traditional method.
Sierra Nevada also makes a very nice stout. If I had to choose between Sierra Nevada Stout and Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald, it would be very difficult. Both are some of the better American brews.
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