Cigar City Hunahpu’s Imperial Stout

Brewed by Cigar City Brewing
Style: Imperial Stout
Tampa, Florida USA

Serve in Snifter

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A pitch black colored beer, with a brown head. The aroma of coffee, dark malts and chocolate. The taste of coffee, fruits, dark malt and chocolate. The aftertaste is a little sweet and bitter chocolate.

750ml bottle shared by Sean. Rating #343. Inky jet black pour, thick and viscous with an unreal dark brown head. Sweet spicy chocolate aroma, dark fruits, really quite enjoyable. Spicy and a little bitter, dark chocolate and roast that sticks to the tongue for awhile, pretty good shit. (1476)

Big nose of cocoa, liquor and tabasco. Appearance is black and oily with nearly no head. Flavor matched the nose, with real astringent liquored body. Palate was heavy and oily. A big, interesting beer.

2010 bottle tasted on 5/8/11. The pour is ridiculously thick and black with a large dark brown head. CC gets the darkest brown foam from their stouts! The aroma is lots of dark chocolate with hints of vanilla and subdued chiles. There’s also some nice dark fruit notes of dates, raisins, and cherries. The flavor is big on dark fruity plums, raisins, cherry and lots of semi sweet dark chocolate. The vanilla and spice has faded a bit since I remember having this fresh and getting way more chile spice. I actually pick up more of a green chile flavor than spicy heat. The cinnamon still shines through very nicely. It has just a touch of soy and ashy roasted malt in the finish. This was a real treat just for the wonderfully rich chocolate character. If you like it more intense, drink it young.

On tap at Rattle N Hum for their Cigar City event. This was the last keg to arrive and was worth the wait. Apparently the keg they were supposed to get didn’t show and Patrick tracked one down through Mike I think. However it got there, thanks guys for getting this. Pours a viscous dark black with a thick tan head. Chocolate, chiles, fruit, roast. Medium bodied, full of spicy chocolate pudding flavors. The subtle heat really shines here balancing out a style that often gets too sweet for its own good. Smokey, chocolate, and more roast on the finish. Smooth and tasty.

draft, pours black with frothy tan head. nose is molasses and slight coffee with roasted flavors. first sip is nice with toasted flavors and roasted malt with coffee and burnt sugar. finish is plesant with coffee bitternes.

Bottle thanks to Adam! Poured black with a dark wooden brown head that dissipated to the edges. Aroma had some chilies with lots of roasted malts and a nice chocolate not as well. Flavor had chilies and cinnamon with growing roast and chocolate to a nice balanced finish. A nice smooth mouth feel to match a good beer..

Chocolatey aroma. Black in color with a deep tan head. Chocolatey, raisiny with a slight spiced complexity (almost cinamony).

UPDATED: MAR 3, 2012 Pours deep black with spare tan head, aroma is big chocolate, wine, vanilla, and pepper. Taste is a bit thin and soft but has a nice chocolate start that goes into the vanilla and finishes dry and peppery. Nicely done beer, easily my favorite out of their line up.

Pours a thick black with a almost black head. It looks like used motor oil that has been sitting in a pan in someone’s garage for about a year. Basically the way I want to see my stouts. Has a malty pepper smell to it with a little chocolate. Taste is very much like the smell but it’s smooth and you can really pick up the peppers in the back with just a little bit of cinnamon. A nice stout I must say but the BA version is much better.