Cigar City Hunahpu's Imperial Stout (Bourbon Barrel Aged)

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

Pours deep darkness with full mocha looking head. The aroma is amazing and comes up just shy of knee buckling. I get thick rich fudge chocolate rum cake, a thicket of vanilla, some oak, roasty malts and then a light amount of bourbon way in the back. I would be just fine tugging on this aroma all day. The taste begins with thick velvety dark chocolate and roasty to nearly burnt malts. It then quickly picks up fudge brownie, vanilla, some modest oak and a touch of earthiness to mingle with dark chocolate and roastiness. It ends with bourbon building to just beyond a noticeable level allowing for only a barely detectable sliver of chili heat (if I didn’t know it was in there I doubt I would have noticed it). Great mouth feel and lots and lots of yum. Some samples I’ve had were in the barrel too long. As a consequence some of the tasty goodness of Hunaphus was over-run by boozy sweetness.4.7 goes down to a 4.4

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

Pours opaque sable with no head. Aroma offers syrupy roast malt, bourbon, chocolate, coffee, earthy and subtle woody notes. Flavor gives sweet chocolate, roast malt, bourbon, coffee and nutty notes. Texture features heavy body and peppy fizz. Have a cigar!