From Cigar City:
The 5th Annual Hunahpu's Day Release Party is set for Saturday, March 8th, 2014 at Cigar City Brewing. This will also be the 3nd time Hunahpu's Day has been featured for Tampa Bay Beer Week.
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
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MEDALS
2009 Atlanta Cask Ale Tasting - 1st Place
2010 United States Beer Open Championship - Gold Medal
2010 Best Florida Beer Championship - Gold Medal
2010 Best Florida Beer Championship - 1st Place, Best in Show
2011 United States Open Beer Championship - Gold Medal
2012 Beverage Testing Institute World Beer Championships - Platinum Medal
2012
March 8th, 2014 is Hunahpu's Day. Here are some important details:
- It's again taking place at the brewery.
- We are setting a max attendance of 3,500 people.
- The day will operate differently than in years' past. Instead of using tickets or tokens to buy individual beers, the event will be more like a "beerfest" and attendees will pay one flat rate to enter the fest and sample as many beers as they'd like all day.
- A ticket will be required to enter the fest.
- Tickets to enter the fest will be $50. All attendees will receive a special Hunahpu's Day sample glass.
- The tasting room will be open, but separate from the Hunahpu's Day Fest. There will be no samples in the tasting room that day, only pints and snifters of whatever is on tap.
- There will be no brewery tours on Hunahpu's Day.
- We plan to sell bottles of Hunahpu's Imperial Stout throughout the day. Details on bottle limit, etc are still being determined.
- There will be no parking at the brewery, however across the street at the old Sears & Roebuck building will be parking, as well as a few other businesses in the neighborhood that will open their lots (for a fee). Please DO NOT PARK in the residential neighborhood, or at Home Depot, Whole Foods, Target, etc. Like every year we strongly encourage carpooling.
- There will be merchandise and other goodies to purchase that will be cash only.
- Food trucks will be there, as well as live music!
- The fest will be from 11am to 5pm.
Details for purchasing tickets to the Hunahpu's Day Fest will be announced VERY soon, however we would like to say now that El Catador Club members will receive first access to purchase them. If you're an El Catador Club member, stay tuned to your emails (and the Facebook and Twitter) for more details.
PETS?
- Pets are allowed as long as they are well-behaved and on a leash. You must clean up after them yourself, so bring some bags.
HOTELS?
- There are several hotels nearby, due to our proximity to the airport. We have some discount codes that you can use.
- Homewood Suites: Click here to reserve. (1.7mi from brewery)
- Hilton Tampa Airport Westshore: Click here to reserve. (0.5mi from brewery)
- Courtyard Marriott: Click here to reserve. (0.8mi from brewery)
- Hilton Garden Inn: Click here to reserve. (1.8mi from brewery)
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