First of all I’d like to apologize for the delay in posting my 100th session of The Hopry. It has been crazy busy around here lately and I also had to travel to Minneapolis for a good friend’s wedding. However, we should be able to celebrate something else now – which is this session. It’s been a long time coming and I’m glad (and thankful) that it’s finally here. Not even a year ago, I set out to review 100 beers in one year, and today I am publicly reaching that milestone in less time than expected. Along the way I’ve experienced a ton of amazing beers and been contacted by (or contacted) many beer lovers from around the world. It has meant a great deal becoming a part of the craft beer community in such a public way. So I decided to celebrate it all with the beer I seemed to be fascinated by the most this year – Cigar City’s Hunahpu’s Imperial Stout. It’s a very dark monster of a stout, which is brewed with cacao nibs, ancho & pasilla chiles, vanilla, and cinnamon. What pours out of the bottle definitely shows its imperial roots, but it also highlights the chiles in the color of the head. There is an amazingly rich reddish brown color to it that left me looking in amazement for a bulk of drinking it. The smell is full of dark roasted malts and a hefty amount of chocolate that comes from the addition of the cacao nibs. A rich sort of smokiness rounds it all out before a very small (almost unnoticeable) amount of cinnamon and vanilla wrap things up. The flavor is heavy with the chocolate from the cacao nibs and is met with a good amount of bitterness and an almost full body. I found this body to be a bit thinner than I would have liked and found it to bring a bit too much tartness along with it as a result of the intense dark chocolate. Having said that, the Hunahpu’s Imperial Stout was still a very good way to celebrate 100 sessions of The Hopry. Thank you all very very much for supporting me. Cheers!
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On the iPod: Gui Boratto “Beautiful Life”
Brewery: Cigar City
Beer: Hunahpu’s Imperial Stout
Style: Imperial Stout
Location: Tampa, Florida
ABV: 11.5%
Rating: 95/100
Thank you for your continued support. Please tell a friend…
Posted by Tim on August 2, 2010 at 8:40 AM
Congratulations … Cheers to another 100 sessions of the Hopry… Have a Hunahpu’s in the cellar (never had the beer before) and waiting for the right moment to “bust a cap” on it ….
Slante
Posted by thehopry on August 2, 2010 at 7:27 PM
Thank you! And “bustin’ caps” is what it’s all about.
Posted by Janie Starr on August 2, 2010 at 9:05 AM
Congratulations……..here’s to 100 more……..Mom
Posted by thehopry on August 2, 2010 at 7:28 PM
A shout out from the moms…thank you!
Posted by Leo Daly on August 2, 2010 at 12:20 PM
Congratulations and thanks, Mark!
You consistently deliver interesting and entertaining sessions – best of the net, really. Here’s to another 100 beers, each one better than the last!
Kind regards,
Leo
Posted by thehopry on August 2, 2010 at 7:28 PM
Really appreciate it Leo. Thank you very much!
Posted by Phredrik on August 2, 2010 at 12:46 PM
Hey Mark
Congrats on the 100 sessions. I really enjoy your sessions and wait eagerly for your sessions every week, and I’m never disappointed. Cheers to another 100 episodes, I’ll be drinking a Black Albert tonight in your courtesy.
Cheers from Denmark
Fredrik
Posted by thehopry on August 2, 2010 at 7:29 PM
Thank you Fredrik. And I hope you enjoy that Black Albert. It’s sure a thing of beauty. Right Big Mike?
Posted by Big Mike on August 2, 2010 at 7:42 PM
You got that right!
Posted by Big Mike on August 2, 2010 at 2:25 PM
Great job Mark! The sessions keep getting better and better. Hopefully you can keep this thing rolling for a few hundred more. I think I’ll probably pop a Supplication tonight in your honor!
Congrats and thank you for all the hard work you put into these sessions.
Big Mike
Posted by thehopry on August 2, 2010 at 7:29 PM
Well too bad I won’t be able to join you because that’s a good beer. Thank you greatly for your support Mike. I think you’ve been one of the biggest and best at it… Respect!
Posted by Jamison Moeckel on August 2, 2010 at 8:07 PM
100!! yes! great job with all the reviews you do. I hope you keep it up and have another 100! you rock!
Posted by thehopry on August 2, 2010 at 8:25 PM
LOL! Thank you sir!
Posted by Isaac on August 3, 2010 at 1:07 AM
Congrats on 100! I do appreciate the quality you put into everything concerning the show. I hope in this next year you are able to obtain your most desired brews. Cheers, and may all your tastings be flavorful.
Posted by thehopry on August 3, 2010 at 8:14 AM
Thank you Isaac. It’s hard to top some of the beers I’ve had this year, but you never know…
Posted by bubba83 on August 7, 2010 at 2:42 PM
We should be thanking you, not the other way around. Thanks for hosting a great show Mark. Maybe I can trade you something you need to try sometime from out this way (SF Bay Area, CA)
Posted by Big Mike on August 25, 2010 at 8:33 AM
My local store just got a couple Of Cigar Citys Humidors in. Humidor Jai Lai IPA and
Humidor Gruit Batch #2.
Posted by nick marshall on October 15, 2010 at 1:13 PM
I had a cask version of this beer at the 2009 Atlanta Cask Ale Tasting (ACAT). It won!