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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8.5/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
2015 bottle, shared with Markoijelena & others in the Beer Temple. From IP trade with richiesd. Pours thick, black color. Dark brown head, short retention. Aroma’s: roasty, sweet, vegetal pepper, chocolate. Retronasal it’s sweetish, chocolate, roasted, pepper/vegetal, sweet spices, and I thought I got some coconut. Flavor is moderate sweet, chocolatey. Pepper heat is very moderate/subtle and not overpowering or lingering. Long finish, roasted, moderate bitter. Lived up to the expectation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Jul 2017
at 16:58
9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
750 ml bottle into snifter, bottled on 2/11/2017. Pours very dense pitch black color with a 2 finger dense dark brown head with insane retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings around the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Insane appearance. One of the thickest, darkest beers I have ever seen. Aromas of huge dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, vanilla, fudge, molasses, caramel, toffee, cinnamon, chili pepper, nuttiness, and toasted dark bread; with light notes of tobacco, leather, raisin, plum, fig, smoke, charcoal, wood, and herbal/roasted earthiness. Incredible aromas with fantastic complexity and balance of dark/roast/bready malt, cocoa, coffee, and spice notes; with big strength. Taste of huge dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, vanilla, fudge, molasses, caramel, toffee, cinnamon, chili pepper, nuttiness, and toasted dark bread; with light notes of tobacco, leather, raisin, plum, fig, smoke, charcoal, wood, and herbal/roasted earthiness. Light roast/char/woody bitterness and pepper/cinnamon spiciness on the finish. Lingering notes of dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, vanilla, fudge, molasses, caramel, toffee, cinnamon, chili pepper, nuttiness, toasted dark bread, smoke, char, wood, light dark fruit, and herbal/roasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Incredible complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt, cocoa, coffee, and spice flavors; with an awesome roasted bitter/sweet and pepper/cinnamon spice balance; with no acrid/astringent flavors after the finish. Slight dryness from roast/char bitterness and pepper/cinnamon spiciness, lightly increasing through the glass. Very minimal building pepper heat through the glass. Light-medium carbonation and very full bodied; with a very smooth, creamy/silky/rich, and slightly slick/sticky/chalky balanced mouthfeel that is awesome. Alcohol is very well hidden; a very mild increasing warmth of 11.5% through the glass. Overall this is an insane spiced imperial stout! All around incredible complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt, cocoa, coffee, and spice flavors; very smooth and dangerously easy to sip on for the big ABV. Damn near perfect balance of spice flavors, with insane levels of rich stout complexity. Great pepper presence with minimal added heat. A highly amazing offering. As a side note: the last tiny pour of the bottle was all yeast. There was an obscene level of dregs in the bottom, but the rest of the bottle was spot on.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Jun 2017
at 20:48
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
0,05l from tap at MBCC yellow session shared with / by the crew. black color, small coffee colored head. smells of vanilla, chilis, some wood, quite nutty., light molasses notes, bit earthy, cinnamon. nice smell. full body, light carbonation. slick mouthfeel. tastes of cinnamon, nutty notes, light vanilla, spices, peppery, after a while some chili, milk chocolate, coca. finishes lightly sweet with notes of cinnamon, cocoa and light molasses with hintsof chili. very nice one, lovely balance, lovely the cinnamon notes, just a tad too heavy for me, but overall very nice beer. 7, 4, 9, 4, 17
Tried
from Draft
on 12 May 2017
at 14:07
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Bottle into a snifter showing motor oil pitch black with quickly dissipating coffee brown latte. The nose shows a lot of cinnamon and baking spices akin to apple pie. The palate is moderately carbonated and big, thick and oily. Lightly cinnamon spiced with flavors of cinnamon, baker’s chocolate, and a big espresso bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Apr 2017
at 19:24
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
(Tap sample @ CBC 2016 Green Session) Pours black with a pale brown head. Big nose of dark chocolate fudge, cinnamon, vanilla, spice, tobacco, toasted nuts, molasses, solid roast. Flavour of rich dark chocolate, cinnamon, vanilla, chili, nut butter, spice box, moderately heavy roast grain, cacao nibs, pepper heat building up to a moderate level in the finish, augmented by roast to dry out a somewhat sweet start. Quite full, oily, with soft carbonation and fairly subtle alcohol. Really nice stuff, not shy with the spices but achieves good balance and big concentration of flavours. Have to try this one again.
Tried
from Draft
on 21 Mar 2017
at 18:30