Cigar City Hunahpu’s Imperial Stout

Bottled. Beautiful pour. As this warms and breathes the aroma really opens up, with nice, smooth spicy complexity but not much in the way of the actual beer. A lot of cinnamon all around, some definite spice from the chili peppers but in a very balanced way. Pretty much all the roast is covered by vanilla and cocoa. Full bodied with minor pepper throughout, more cinnamon and cocoa, perhaps some tomatillo. A delicious beer, but sadly one that is completely defined by its spice treatment and little else. Fails to wow.

My 14,900th rating. A pitch black beer with a brown head. The aroma has notes of roasted malt, chili, and soy sauce. The flavor is sweet with notes of roasted malt, soy sauce, alcohol, chocolate, and chili, leading to a dry roasted finish. The alcohol leaves a burn in the mouth.

Balck with a medium dark beige/deep espresso head. Spicy aroma with burned malt, chilis, coffee and dark chocolate. Flavour had a nice chili touch, burned malt, dark bitter chocolate and coffe. Finished dry and somewhat spicy.

Hand bottle 33 cl. Courtesy of madmitch76. Pours pitch black with a deep almost reddish brown head - I’ve never quite seen anything like it. The aroma is equally unique, a really enticing mixture of vanlla, hard roasted malts, and a whiff of chili - everything perfectly balanced. The body is solid, lots of hard roasted malts, some sweet cocoa comes out and the chili leaves a little bite on my lips. The finish is dark chocolate, the hard roasted malts leaving a little bitterness. Finally a truly unique Imperial Stout with the spicing being perfectly subtle and balanced. I really dig this. 141109

Handbottled. Sweet vanilla aroma. Black colour. Small dark brown head, reddish almost like copper. The flavour has some cinnamon, sweetness. Subtle warming feel, at first it seems like alcohol, but it is probably the peppers. The flavour is very sweet with a distinct roast barley note, but it is balanced OK by the alcohol and chilli. Perhaps a bit too many flavours added, but at least they are quite subtle. Very late coffee aftertaste.

33 cL handbottled, courtesy of Papsoe. Pours dark browh to black with a chocolate brown head. Aroma is smooth fruity and hardroasted malty. Dark chocolate and slight peppery spice note to this. Herbal and peppery flavoured, coffee and chocolate herbal note to a hardroasted malt base. Bitter, spiced and acidic roasted malt base. Sticky chocolate flavoured with a distinct acidic roasted note. Peppery bite in the finish. Lingering sweet dark roasted malt flavoured into the far finish.

Cask at redlight redlight. Special thanks to Wayne at Cigar City for hooking us up with it. Pours thick, dark, opaque, with visibly thick and oily legs. Man, does this beer have great legs. It is full of dark chocolate, loads of alcohol, hints of robust spices, with a definite bite. Powerful and yet very smooth for the high alcohol content. An extra great beer.

cask @ redlight redlight. Thanks to wayne from cigar city to bringing this to Slow Food Orlando event we hosted! Rich chocolate liqoure and coffee aromas, dark chocolate, rich dark malts on the nose. Pours opaque black with a brown head. Rich chocolate flavor, decadent dark malts, caramelized sugars, molasses, with hints of roasted peppers, with hints of spice. So smooth and oily on the palate. Definitely better as it warms.