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Cigar City Hunahpu Imperial Stout 2014

You’ve got a bit of time to wait until you see this beer again. Cigar City Brewing’s Hunahpu Imperial Stout will make another appearance on March 8, 2014. Hunahpu, a massive imperial stout, is brewed with cocoa nibs, ancho and Continue Reading →

A Smoked Imperial Stout Coming to Cigar City

Cigar City Brewing (Tampa, FL) is expanding their Humidor Series with a smokey offering. English-Style Smoked Imperial Stout is brewed with three different smoked malts and aged on Spanish cedar.

Each beer in the Humidor Series is aged on Spanish cedar, Continue Reading →

Posted in Cigar City Brewing, Coming Soon, Headlines

Cigar City Hunahpu a Step Further: Aged in Two Barrels

Cigar City’s Hunahpu Imperial Stout is a perennial favorite, and a bit of a legend. Hunahpu, a strong imperial stout, is brewed with cocoa nibs, ancho and pasilla chilies, cinnamon, and Madagascar vanilla beans. The next release of it is in March, 2014.

Even more rare, are barrel aged editions of this brew. Now for the first time a “double barrel” edition will surface. Hunahpu was/is aged in both rum and brandy barrels (each a separate version of the barrel aged Hunahpu series) and blended together.

The result is sure to be rare (released in lottery or the brewery’s El Catador Club) and definitely mega trade bait. The brewery will announce details closer to release.

Style: Imperial Stout (w/ Cinnamon, Vanilla beans, Chili Peppers, Cacao Nibs. Barrel Aged. Rum, Brandy)

Availability: 750 ml bottles
Arrival: TBA. Brewery only

11% ABV 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Cigar City Brewing, New Releases

Cigar City’s El Catador October Releases Revealed

Cigar City Brewing (Tampa, FL) recently started the El Catador Club for their fans to get a hold of special releases. The next round of El Catador releases have been announced. Below are the descriptions if you aren’t familiar. The below are releases #2, #3, #4. They will be available on October 28th. All El Catador release rules apply.

 

Illuminating the Path

A collaboration with Ecliptic Brewing out of Portland, Oregon. The concept behind this beer was to connect Oregon and Florida, which brought several raw materials to mind. John Harris of Ecliptic and myself decided to use rose hips and marionberries, indigenous to Oregon, plus hibiscus and acai berries from Florida. The recipe for the beer was designed with these ingredients in mind, and then aged in pinot noir barrels from Oregon. The result is dark, with big fruity notes, balanced by vinous wine-like notes. We wanted to balance the concept of beer and wine and believe we have done that successfully.”

Don Gavino’s Big Guava

Named for Don Gavino Gutierrez, a Spanish architect, surveyor and civil engineer who first came to Tampa looking for wild guava trees. The journey was not fruitful as the guava population was much smaller than expected. However, Don Gavino was still convinced that Tampa’s natural harbor and access to Henry B. Plant’s new rail-line would make Tampa an excellent import/export hub. We salute Don Gavino with this tart guava ale, aged in chardonnay barrels to create a balance between the sweetness of the base beer and fruit with the tartness of the lactic fermentation.”

Good Gourd Almighty

Imperial Pumpkin Ale brewed with copious amounts of pumpkin with Ceylon cinnamon, Jamaican all-spice, Zanzibar cloves and nutmeg added, and then aged in rum barrels. The final result is a perfect fall sipper.These three beers will all be available for pick up in the tasting room starting Monday, October 28th at 11am, exclusively to El Catador Club members. When retrieving your bottles, please have your member card and I.D. ready to make things easier for our bartenders (trustees can just show their I.D.). Also, keep in mind that during peak hours it may take a bit of time to get your bottles. And of course, these beers will be available until 30 days after the release of the 5th beer.

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Cigar City Brewing, Headlines, Terrapin Beer Company

Terrapin & Cigar City Create “Southern Slice”

Recently, Terrapin Beer Company’s “Spike” went down to Cigar Cigar Brewing in Tampa to collaborate. If you know anything at all about these two breweries, neither strays away from creativity.

That’s how Southern Slice got started. The group wanted to capture the taste and flair of a southern staple, pecan pie. After deciding to use a dark lager as a base, vanilla beans and pecans were give the beer a pie like flavor.

Southern Slice will be packaged in 750ml bottles.

Style: Dunkel Lager (w/ Vanilla Beans, Pecans)
Availability: 750ml bottles
Arrival: TBA

?? ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in AleSmith Brewing, Cigar City Brewing, Headlines

The Alesmith/Cigar City “Dubbel Coast” Collab

Just a bit more on the upcoming Alesmith/ Cigar City Brewing collaboration, Dubbel Dare. The brewery travelled down to Tampa recently to create a tropical collaboration.

The result is this 80’s throwback, Dubbel Dare suitable for a physical challenge. When you think about Florida, you think beaches right? Coconuts, palm trees, etc? There’s the inspiration for a tropical Belgian-style dubbel. Coconut palm sugar was used in place of candi sugar. Deglet Noor dates and Black Mission figs were added to the fermentation. An abbey yeast strain rounds out the flavor. Now you have a “dubbel coast” collaboration.

Cigar City will bottle this in 750ml bottles for Florida distribution.

Style: Dubbel (w/ Coconut Palm Sugar, Deglet Noor Dates, Black Mission Figs)
Availability: 25.4oz Bottles
Arrival: TBA

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Cigar City Brewing, Don't Miss This

Cigar City Hunahpu Imperial Stout 2014

You’ve got a bit of time to wait until you see this beer again. Cigar City Brewing’s Hunahpu Imperial Stout will make another appearance on March 8, 2014. Hunahpu, a massive imperial stout, is brewed with cocoa nibs, ancho and pasilla chilies, cinnamon, and Madagascar vanilla beans. Crazy delicious.

In Mayan mythology, Hun Hunahpu was the father of the hem twins Hunahpu and Xbalanque. Hun Hunahpu, with his brother Hunahpu. vies Vidal by the Dark Lords of the 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.

Style: Imperial Stout (w/ Cinnamon, Vanilla beans, Chili Peppers, Cacao Nibs,)

Availability: 750 ml bottles
Arrival: March 8th, 2014 (Brewery Release, Tampa)

11% ABV 

Ed note: Corrected date to March 8, 2014

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Cigar City Brewing, Coming Soon, Headlines

A Smoked Imperial Stout Coming to Cigar City

Cigar City Brewing (Tampa, FL) is expanding their Humidor Series with a smokey offering. English-Style Smoked Imperial Stout is brewed with three different smoked malts and aged on Spanish cedar.

Each beer in the Humidor Series is aged on Spanish cedar, the same wood found in cigar boxes. Get the connection?

Style: Smoke Beer (Imperial Stout. Oak Aged. Spanish Cedar)
Availability: 750ml bottles
Arrival: TBA

11% ABV

Read more: Humidor Series

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Cigar City Brewing, Headlines

Cigar City Has a New Caribbean Offering

Cigar City Brewing (Tampa, FL) can do wonders with an IPA. Have you ever had a Caribbean IPA. That’s what Dry Hopped on the High Seas is. Caribbean. This offering touts being dry hopped on the high seas. Or at least near it in Tampa, Florida.

This tropical IPA features the stylings of Simcoe in the dry hop. Release date coming soon.

Style: IPA
Availability: 
Arrival: TBA

?? ABV

by Reid Ramsay