This post is a part of the 2015 New Beer Every Day Beer Diary Challenge, #ottbeerdiary. Over the course of 2015, I will be trying a new beer every day. Please read the background in the link above, and enjoy reading about the most recently tasted beers below. If you’d like to join the challenge as well, let me know in the comments below, and be sure to check out Grown-up Travel Guide and his #grownupbeerdiary, where Andy Higgs came up with the diary format in use below. You can catch up on all of our posts as part of the challenge under the tag ottbeerdiary.
Day 100: April 10, 2015
Diary entry:
Wow, has it really been 100 days?!? 100 days straight of a new beer every day? What an experience so far!
Was supposed to be a quiet day at work today, one meeting in the morning, nothing much to speak of. But a late meeting invite in the afternoon, and a number of questions coming in, and I didn’t make it out the door until 5PM!
Had make a quick stop at a colleague’s going away drink, and then ran home to make the train to Tilburg for tonight’s beer tasting event.
The Beer:
Name: Hunahpu’s Imperial Stout (2013)
Style: American Imperial / Double Stout
Producer: Cigar City Brewing
Alcohol content: 11.0%
Bottle size: 0.1l pour from a 0.75 l bottle
Purchased from: Contributed by Wouter Rijken at our stout tasting held at Cafe Hoegarden in Tilburg
A great rare beer tasting put together by Nils Masselink of BierNetwerk.nl in Tilburg last night. A dozen mega-stouts being shared up. Lots of awesome beers to choose from, but in the end, this one won for my favorite of the night. Hunahpu’s Imperial Stout from Cigar City Brewing in Tampa, Florida. 2013 edition. Great balance in this beer, between the dark flavors and alcohol. Even get plenty of vanilla barrel-type notes, despite this not being a barrel aged edition! Delicious!
Commercial Description:
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 to the heavens to become the moon and sun.
We brew Hunahpu’s® Imperial Stout once a year and release it only at the brewery. We will continue to do so until the end of the cycle.
“Pours extremely dark in color with a brown head with notes of big chocolate and espresso, moderate notes of vanilla and cinnamon and a mild tinge of tobacco and chilis. The flavor opens with a big blast of chocolate and moderate espresso with elements of dark toffee and interjecting threads of vanilla with lingering hints of cinnamon and tobacco and chillies notes with a mild scoville heat in the finish.”
-Head Brewer Wayne Wambles
