Hunahpu's Imperial Stout
(has 15 batches)
Cigar City Brewing in Tampa, Florida, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Regular|
Score
8.36
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In Mayan mythology, Hun Hunahpu was the father of the Mayan hero twins Hunahpu and Xbalanque. Hun Hunahpu, along with his brother Vucub Hunahpu, was tricked by the Dark Lords of the underworld and slain. Hun Hunahpu’s corpse morphed into a cacao tree, his head becoming a cacao pod, which in typically awesome mythology fashion, spit upon the hand of a young maiden named Xiquic who promptly became pregnant with the hero twins. The twins would ultimately grow up to avenge their father and uncle and defeat the Dark Lords and ascend the heavens to become the moon and sun. We brew Hunahpu’s® Imperial Stout once a year and release it only at the brewery on the second Saturday in March. We will continue to do so until the end of the cycle.
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8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Can from March 12, 2022. Aroma is overt cinnamon and semi-sweet chocolate. Faint chili. Also, the cinnamon fades away in the middle of the palate and comes back at the end. Oily black with moderate brown head that fades away to a collar. Flavor is chocolate, coffee and cinnamon showing to the front with the pepper nicely in the distance. Slight roast aroma as it warms. Flavor shows dark fruit and roast as well. Thick, semi-viscous mouthfeel. Moderate alcohol burn.
Tried
from Can
on 31 Dec 2022
at 04:49
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
750mL bottled 2/26/21, drunk 11/21/22, thanks Chalameuax! Undetermined clarity, dark mahogany with deep burgundy highlights in the light. Medium-sized, tan head shows moderate retention. Nose is beautiful and well-aged. None of the unfermented sugars and syrupy fudge that so many stouts have these days. The adjuncts are done incredibly tastefully, as well with none of it jumping out or dominating. Dark chocolate, vanilla, moderate roast and ample sweet caramel from the malt with no alcohol, even after warming. Everything melds together so well and it's shocking to me that this is a mere 21 months in bottle. Drinks like it's homogenized for 5 years. Soft, malty, rich and yet wonderfully attenuated. Near-perfect balance giving appropriately chewy, luxurious textures with no syrupy sweetness or any fatiguing sugar on the finish. Cinnamon spiciness helps balance and vanilla is soft and flavorful. Nothing jumps out and this is a study in balance and finesse. Through all that, it's still pleasingly rich and satisfying. No alcohol whatsoever. Pretty crazy that I never got on the Cigar City train - just missed the boat. Glad to finally try this and I see now why Cigar City hit it big. Hard to believe they've created this much depth, complexity and balance without barrel aging. This puts many barrel aged stouts to shame, which is impressive. 9/4/9/5/19 2018 bottle drunk 2023. 3 years older than the sublime 2021 bottle I had recently and just a mess of cinnamon and other overdone adjunct. Thin flavors and textures with unrefined sugariness. So bad that it got dumped immediately. Wow, what's with the consistency issues with this beer?? 8/4/5/3/9
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Nov 2022
at 21:03
9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
(Draught at Oliver Twist, Stockholm, 21 Oct 2021. Vintage 2019) Black colour with brief, beige head. Malty, roasted nose with notes of dark chocolate, milky coffee, vanilla, coconut and cinnamon. Malty, roasted, vinous taste with black coffee, dark chocolate, bourbon, rum, vanilla, coconut, a touch of chilli and a generous roasty bitterness in a warming finish. Full body, quite sweet. Rich, powerful and still in excellent balance. Lovely stuff!
Tried
on 06 Nov 2021
at 23:17