Cigar City Hunahpu's Imperial Stout - Apple Brandy Barrel Aged

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 10 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

On tap at CCB pouring up inky dark soulless void with dark mocha head and long lasting ring of foam and some spotty lacing. The aroma is bold and tries to push you over with sweet brandy, coconut, vanilla, oak, rich dark roastiness and dark chocolate all coming together. The taste smooth and near velvety with dark roastiness and dark chocolate sliding into sweet smooth brandy booziness, vanilla, coconut and then oak as well. It leaves a pleasing rich dark chocolate, vanilla and coconut sense behind deep into the after taste. The balance ends up a bit more barrel forward than beer forward at this point allowing almost all of the beery goodness of this beer to shine through. I really wasn’t able to pick up any chili other than maybe a sense of heat combined with booziness and carbonation into the finish.