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Cigar City Brewing brings back Bourbon Barrel Hunahpu for 2021 release

While Tampa’s Cigar City Brewing announced in December that the celebrated beer release would return in 2021, they did not release specifics at that time.  Fast forward to January when more details come into focus, and it turns out 2021 will see the anticipated return of Bourbon Barrel-Aged Hunahpu in an all-online release format.

From Cigar City Brewing:

Here are the details for our annual release:

  • 750mL bottles of 2021 Hunahpu’s Imperial Stout and 500mL bottles of Bourbon Barrel-aged 2021 Hunahpu’s Imperial Stout will be offered by lottery beginning 10 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 30. We are proud to partner with Oznr Craft Beverage Marketplace to facilitate the lottery and release of these beers.
  • Two separate lotteries will be taking place: one lottery will be for (2) 750 mL bottles of 2021 Hunahpu’s Imperial Stout, and the other lottery will be for (2) 750 mL bottles of 2021 Hunahpu’s Imperial Stout AND (2) 500 mL bottles of Bourbon Barrel-aged Hunahpu’s Imperial Stout. These are the only quantities in which 2021 Hunahpu’s Imperial Stout and Bourbon Barrel-aged Hunahpu’s Imperial Stout will be available.
  • Lottery sign-ups for (2) bottles of 2021 Hunahpu’s Imperial Stout will take place from 10 a.m. EST Saturday, Jan. 30 until 11:59 p.m. EST Friday, Feb 12. Lottery winners will be selected and notified on Saturday, Feb 13.
  • Lottery sign-ups for (2) bottles of 2021 Hunahpu’s and (2) Bourbon Barrel-aged Hunahpu’s Imperial Stout will take place from 10 a.m. EST Saturday, Jan. 30 until 11:59 p.m. EST Friday, Feb. 5. Lottery winners for Bourbon Barrel-aged Hunahpu’s Imperial Stout will be selected and notified on Saturday, Feb. 6.
  • Lottery entry will require entering your credit card information, but your card will only be charged if you are selected as a lottery winner. If you are selected, your card will automatically be charged.
  • NO REFUNDS WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR LOTTERY WINNERS OF EITHER 2021 HUNAHPU’S IMPERIAL STOUT OR BOURBON BARREL-AGED HUNAHPU’S IMPERIAL STOUT. If you are selected as a lottery winner for both lotteries, you will be charged for all six bottles.
  • 2021 Hunahpu’s Imperial Stout and Bourbon Barrel-aged Hunahpu’s Imperial Stout pick-ups will take place between Friday, March 12 and Sunday, April 11.
  • All 2021 Hunahpu’s Imperial Stout bottle pick-ups will take place in-person at our Spruce Street Brewery in Tampa. We absolutely cannot ship bottles of beer.
  • Proxy pick-ups are permitted and will be facilitated through your Oznr account.

For more details on Hunahpu’s Day, the beer, the release event, and setting up an Oznr account, visit the brewery’s post about Hunahpu’s Day.

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About Cigar City Brewing 
Steeped in the unique culture and history of Tampa, Florida, Cigar City Brewing began handcrafting award-winning beer in 2009. Cigar City Brewing’s ales and lagers bring to mind the sun and citrus for which Florida is known, while taking cues from the cigar industry upon which Tampa was built. Behind all of Cigar City Brewing’s liquid is the philosophy that quality is achieved by giving first-rate ingredients to first-rate people in a space where they are free to pursue their passion.

Hunahpu’s Day 2016 will be full of firsts

Recently, Tampa’s Cigar City Brewing announced some major changes related to Hunahpu’s Day. The major question from inquiring minds is: “How will this year’s festival be different from past years?”

To answer this, Florida Beer News sat down with the media crew at Cigar City Brewing and talked over some of the major changes.

1. The new site. The festival is moving off site for the first time in its history. Not only did Cigar City Brewing outgrow the space, but the parking lot is going to get smaller thanks to some construction plans the brewery has in place. CCB’s Director of Customer Interaction, Chris Lovett, put it best: “We felt that this event is better than a parking lot fest.”

2. More beer. The new space will allow Cigar City Brewing many liberties in the planning stages, namely inviting more breweries. The festival will now include over 140 breweries bringing their beer to serve to attendees. As if that was not enough, the Cigar City family (Cigar City Brewing, Brewpub, Cider & Mead, and Airport) will be bringing at least 75 taps of beer to this event. Numerous breweries from around the world are attending for the first time, including the Dunedin Brewery.

3. More food options. The CCB team confirms that “substantially more food options” will be available at the new Hunahpu’s Day. Each attendee will receive four tapas tickets to redeem from over a dozen food vendors.

4. New ticket options. Previously, the event was a one-size-fits-all bottle sale that left some folks happy and some folks upset at the number of bottles that they could buy at the event. This year, as with last year, the number of bottles are guaranteed with ticket sales. This year’s ticket prices are:

– $200, which includes 4 bottles of Hunahpu’s® Imperial Stout
– $300, which includes 8 bottles of Hunahpu’s® Imperial Stout
– $400, which includes 12 bottles of Hunahpu’s® Imperial Stout (exclusive to El Catador Club members only)

5. New rules. This year’s festival does not include glassware or bottle shares. Glass is prohibited in Cotanchobee Fort Brooke Park, and Tampa Police will be present to enforce this rule. No glass also means no bottle shares. Cigar City Brewing staff is adamant on this point. So adamant that they insist that any bottles will be confiscated and the brewery staff will periscope a staff-only bottle share where confiscated beers are enjoyed. The staff urge attendees not to be “that guy.”

6. Privileges for Catador members. Catador members will have access to an exclusive ticket package and first option to buy tickets. Tickets will be on sale to members of the 2nd Edition of the Catador Club first.

7. New Partners. The Tampa Downtown Partnership, Tampa Parks and Recreation, The Tampa Bay History Center, WMNF, and the Tampa Marriott Waterside Hotel are all excited to partner with Cigar City Brewing to make Hunahpu’s Day possible. Each partner is helping in their own special way. WMNF will be DJing the onsite music. Hunahpu’s bottles will be picked up at the Tampa Marriott Waterside hotel.

8. The Spruce Street Tasting Room will be open normal hours. Hunahpu’s Day has always presented a challenge to the tasting room, in 2016 the brewery will be business as usual.

9. Hotel rooms and alternate transportation will be highly encouraged. Since the festival is going to be in one of the busiest parts of Tampa, plenty of hotel space is available for festivalgoers. Room rates for hotels in the area as well as Uber/Lyft specials are forthcoming.

As the event continues to grow, so does local excitement surrounding the event, as it looks to be bigger and better than each previous year. As Hunahpu’s Day 2016 looks to be the biggest event that CCB has planned, the biggest question seems to be: Who’s in?

3 Sons Brewing wins honors at Hunahpu Day

Press Release:

Summation by 3 Sons Takes the GOLD at Cigar City Hunahpu’s Day 2015

The thousands of beer geeks and aficionados that quenched their love of craft beer at the 2015 Hunahpu’s Day Festival hosted by Cigar City Brewing Co in Tampa, FL have spoken and the Peoples’ Choice voted 3 Sons Brewing Co. out of Dania Beach, Florida with top honors awarding them 1st place for Best Brewery and 1st place for Best Beer, for its Kopi Summation Bourbon Barreled aged Imperial Stout, brewed at the Brewers Tasting Room in St. Petersburg, FL.

The Hunahpu’s Day festival is in its 6th year of the annual celebration which marks the release of Cigar City’s lauded Hunahpu’s Imperial Stout, an award-winning limited release that brings craft beer enthusiasts from all over the country to Tampa, FL every March during Tampa Bay Beer Week. At $200 per person to attend, breweries have to bring their best to impress these die-hards craft beer enthusiasts, and 3 Sons delivered on those expectations this year.

3 Sons Brewery Best Beer winner, Kopi Summation, is a bourbon-barrel-aged imperial stout, treated with Madagascar vanilla beans and exotic Kopi Luwak coffee. It is the brewery’s second Summation iteration, following the success of the coffee-vanilla infused stout at festivals in the past, including the 2014 Hunahpu’s Day.

3 Sons is in the final stages of establishing a formal location, complete with tasting room and beer garden, in Dania Beach, FL. Co-founder and Brewmaster Corey Artanis expects to see the doors open in late 2015, and is excited to be joining a vibrant and upwelling community of craft beer enthusiasts in South Florida, which is already home to some big names like Funky Buddha, Due South, Saltwater Brewery, Wynwood Brewing, MIA and J Wakefield Brewing.

To keep in touch with 3 Sons and learn more about their Dania Beach location or insights on their brewing process, you can find them on Facebook, Instagram, and Untappd.

Hunahpu Day tickets sell out in less than two minutes

The graphic was released: “Hunahpu Day is coming March 14th, 2015.” People were excited.
The ticket price was released: “$200 per ticket.” People balked.
The draft list was released: “An insane number of beers previously unheard of in Florida.” People were excited again.
The members of Cigar City’s reserve society, El Catador Club, got first crack at tickets and the tickets were selling.
The public release came last night, and in less than two minutes all 1,232 tickets were sold.

From Cigar City:

Hunahpu’s Day 2015 is officially SOLD OUT!!
In less than 2 minutes, we saw all 1,232 tickets in people’s shopping carts. Clearly people are excited for the resurrection of Hunahpu’s Day! And so are we.
March 14th can’t come soon enough. See you guys there!

This should certainly show that the craft beer industry in Florida promotes tourism, as people from around the United States will descend upon Tampa to attend this festival.

For more details, visit Hunahpusday.com.

Hunahpu Day will take place on March 14th, 2015 as one of the culminating events of Tampa Bay Beer Week. Cigar City Brewing is located at 3924 West Spruce Street in Tampa.

Cigar City Brewing releases Hunahpu Day tap list

Cigar City Brewing began releasing Hunahpu’s Imperial Stout in 2010 with a small release in the brewery on a Friday night. Since then, the annual release has morphed into an all-day festival celebrating local and national craft beer.

While it looked like 2014 might be the last time that Hunahpu ever got a release day, Cigar City changed their mind and brought it back with new rules in 2015. While many were upset by an increase in ticket price and a limited number of tickets offered, with Catador Club members getting first picking, the question resounded: what will the tap list look like?

In typical Cigar City fashion, the brewery knew that Hunahpu Day would attract many interested craft beer people, so they are bringing many new and rare craft beers in from brewery friends across the United States to celebrate the release of Hunahpu.

The tap list as it currently stands is:

3 Sons Brewing
-Summation Batch #5
-Olson’s Wee Heavy
-Irish Winter

5 Rabbit Cerveceria
-Gringolandia SuperPils
-5 Lizard
-El Bizarrón
-5 Vulture

7venth Sun
-TBA

The Alchemist
-Heady Topper American Double IPA

Anderson Valley Brewing Company
-Horse Tongue Thribble Currant
-Blood Orange Gose
-Wild Turkey Bourbon Barrel Stout

Angry Chair Brewing
-3 Little Birds Florida Weisse
-German Chocolate Cupcake Stout

Arizona Wilderness Brewing Co.
-Rum and Pappy Double Barreled Pecan Pie Brown
-New Brood Braggot aged in a Superstition Mead Barrel
-American Presidential Imperial Stout
-Woolsey With (Sour orange wit)
-Superstition Coffee Stout

B. Nektar Meadery
-Zombie Killer
-More TBA

Barley Mow Brewing Co.
-BA Unkindness American Black Ale
-BA Selike Belgian style Pale Ale
-S’mores Imperial Stout
-Foolery American Barley Wine

Beau’s All Natural Brewing Company
-Lug Tread Lagered Ale
-Strong Patrick Strong Irish Red Ale
-Hibernal Solstice Blended Barrel-aged Beer
-Original Gruit

Bell’s Brewery
-Black Note
-Beer Michigan Barleywine
-Raspberry Wild One
-Traverse City Cherry Third Coast Old Ale

Boneyard Beer
-RPM IPA
-Bone Light ISA
-Notorious Triple IPA
-Suge Knite Imperial Stout

Boulevard
-TBA

Brew Bus Brewing
-Last Stop IPA
-Rollin Dirty Red Ale
-Nutella Porter

Brewers’ Tasting Room
-TBA

The Burnt Hickory Brewery
-Cannon Dragger IPA
-The Didjits Blood Orange IPA
-Big Shanty Graham Cracker Stout
-Ezekiel’s Wheel “Zeke”

Carton Brewing
-Wayne’s Way IPA
-Gilded Lily White Truffle Belgian Tripel
-Regular Coffee Imperial Cream Ale with Coffee
-Boat Hoppy Session Ale

Cascade Brewing
-Manhattan NW Blended Sour Cherry Ale in Bourbon Barrels
-Vlad the Impaler Blended Sour Ale
-Cherry Bourbonic with Dates and Cherries aged in Bourbon Barrels
-Shrieking Violet Blended Sour Blueberry Ale aged in Wine and Bourbon Barrels

Cigar City Brewing
-Hunahpu’s Imperial Stout
-2013 Brandy Barrel-aged Hunahpu’s Imperial Stout
-2012 Leon Brandy Barrel-aged Barley Wine
-2014 Leon Brandy Barrel-aged Barley Wine
-Da Un Beso A La Botella Rum Barrel-aged Imperial Porter
-Rum Barrel-aged Caffe Americano Double Stout
-Grandmule Bourbon Barrel-aged Imperial Porter
-Bourbon Barrel-aged Big Sound Scotch Ale
-Kalevipoeg at the Gates of Hell Bourbon Barrel-aged Baltic Porter
-Dubbel Dare Belgian Dubbel (collab with AleSmith Brewing)
-2013 Bourbon Barrel-aged Jose Marti India-style Porter
-Rum Barrel-aged Marshal Zhukov’s Imperial Stout
-The Dark Woods Imperial Porter
-El Murcielago Tequila Barrel-aged Ale

Cigar City Brewpub
-Iron O’Rourke’s God of Fear Stout
-Captain of the World IPA
-Aleph Null American Rye Barleywine

Cigar City Cider & Mead
-TBA

Coppertail Brewing Co.
-Free Dive IPA
-Unholy Trippel
-Purple Drank Boysenberry Berlinerweisse
-Sabotage Russian Imperial Stout with Coffee aged in Bourbon Barrels

Coronado Brewing Company
-Skull Wrapper IPA
-Islander IPA
-Orange Avenue Wit
-Mermaid’s Red Ale

Country Boy Brewing
-Nacho Bait Habanero Blonde Ale
-Papaw’s Red Imperial Red Ale aged in Bourbon Barrels
-Shotgun Wedding Brown Ale aged on Vanilla Beans
-Barreled Imperial Stout

Creature Comforts Brewery
-Athena Paradiso Berliner Weisse
-Emergence Brettanomyces ale refermented in wine barrels
-Tropicalia American IPA
-Southerly Love Hoppy beer with brettanomyces and lactobacillus

Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project
-Vieille Barrel-aged Tart Saison
-Surette Barrel-aged Provisions Saison

Darwin Brewing Co.
-Ayawasca Belgian Dubbel
-Charapa Spiced Porter
-Leche de Tigre Florida Weisse brewed with Amazonian fruit and spice
-Originz Andean influenced Gose

Due South Brewing Co
-Category 5 IPA
-Mariana Trench Imperial Stout
-Mexican Standoff Imperial Porter
-Calling All Cars Coffee & Donuts Porter

Evil Twin Brewing
-TBA

Founders Brewing
-Backwoods Bastard
-Big Lushious Chocolate Raspberry Imperial Stout
-CBS
-Mosaic Promise

Funky Buddha Brewery
-Wide Awake It’s Morning Imperial Maple Bacon Coffee Porter
-Up Pip’s Kriek American Sour Ale aged on cherries and oak
-Last Snow Milk Porter with coffee, coconut and white chocolate
-More Moro Blood Orange IPA

Goose Island Beer Company
-Bourbon County Brand Stout
-Bourbon County Coffee Stout
-Bourbon County Barleywine
-Gillian Wild ale aged in wine barrels with strawberries

Great Divide Brewing
-Orabelle Belgian-style Tripel
-Espresso Oak-aged Yeti Imperial Stout
-American Sour (Ambrosia)
-Barrel-aged Yeti Imperial Stout

Green Bench Brewing
-Your Silent Captain Apple Brandy Barrel Aged Tart Cherry Imperial Stout
-Push It Salt and Pepper Gose
-The Famous Flying Zacchinis Foeder Fermented Dark Farmhouse Ale
-Oak Fermented Sour Farmhouse Blend #2

Intuition Ale Works
-Matanzas Barrel-aged Golden Strong Ale
-Under Dark Barrel-aged Imperial Stout
-Tart Star Sour Stout
-Brett Triple Brett Belgian Triple

J Wakefield
-Hop for Teacher
-The Harbinger Imperial Hazelnut Sweet Stout
-UJP Coffee Porter
-Stush Berliner
-El Jefe

Jackie O’s Pub & Brewery
-Bourbon Barrel Dark Apparition
-Bourbon Barrel Woodburner

JDub’s
-Up Top! IPA
-Poolside Kolsch
-Mud Whata Imperial Stout
-Dulce Brown Ale aged on apple brandy raisins and cinnamon

Kane Brewing Company
-Head High India Pale Ale
-A Night to End All Dawns Bourbon Barrel-aged Imperial Stout
-Sunday Brunch Imperial Milk Coffee Porter with Maple Syrup and Cinnamon
-1095 Blended Barrel-aged Belgian Style Dark Strong Ale

The Lost Abbey/Port Brewing
-Agave Maria aged in tequila barrels
-Cuvee de Tomme 2014
-Angel’s Share Grand Cru
-Older Viscosity

MAZURT
-Vanilla MAZURT RIS aged in Coconuts
-Got No Dime Barleywine
-Barrel-aged MAZURT RIS

Melvin Brewing
-TBA

Mikkeller
-Beer Geek Brunch Weasel
-Winbic Sour Ale
-Spontanrosehip Sour Ale
-Raspberrytrippelbock

Modern Times Beer
-Blazing World Hoppy Dank Amber
-Fortunate Islands Hoppy Tropical Wheat
-Black House Coffee Oatmeal Stout
-City of the Dead Export Stout with Barrel-aged Coffee

Night Shift Brewing
-Whirlpool American Pale Ale
-Funk’d Barrel-aged Brett Ale
-Mainer Weisse fermented with blueberries and aged on cinnamon sticks
-Bean Porter Bourbon Barrel-aged Porter with coffee and vanilla beans

NOLA Brewing Co
-Lowerline 100% Lacto fermented American Sour Ale
-Piety 100% Brett & Lacto fermented American Sour Ale on tart cherries
-Barrel-Bella 100% Brett & Lacto fermented American Sour Ale aged in white wine barrels with Apricots
-Sauvage 100% Brett fermented Pale Ale aged in oak barrels, dry hopped with Galaxy twice

Oakshire Brewing
-Hellshire V Strong Stout aged in Bourbon Barrels
-Hermanne 1882 Belgian Golden Blended with Muller Thurgau grapes, aged in pinot noir barrels with brett
-Overcast Espresso Stout
-Perfect Storm Double IPA

Ommegang
-TBA

Pair O’ Dice Brewing Co.
-The Stickman Double IPA
-Lucky Lucy Strawberry Blonde
-Mexicali Pale Ale
-Lowball IPA

Proof Brewing Co.
-Grapefruit Guru IPA
-Kissing Giants Gose
-Barrel-aged Creatures in the Dark Stout
-Thai Chili Kaffir Mango Wit

Rapp Brewing
-Gose
-Hefeweizen
-Kolsch
-Lichtenheiner

Revolution Brewing
-One and Done Triple IPA
-Uncalled Four Barrel-aged Belgian Quadruple
-Bean Gene Bourbon Barrel-aged Porter with coffee added
-A Little Crazy Belgian-style dry-hopped Pale Ale

Saint Somewhere Brewing Co.
-Punaise de Amour Farmhouse ale brewed w/ hibiscus and coriander
-Cheval Saison brewed w/ horse feed
-Jasmine Saison brewed w/ Jasmine tea
-Dry hopped Ete San Fin Dry hopped saison

Siren Craft Brew
-Lemon Cello IPA
-Bourbon Barrel-aged Shattered Dreams
-Two Weeks Off Berliner Weisse aged in Bourbon barrels, then papaya, mango, coconut, pineapple, and lime
-Mrs. Brown Imperial Brown Ale aged in Bourbon barrels with pecans, vanilla, and maple syrup

Solemn Oath Brewery
-Kidnapped by Vikings American IPA
-Butterfly Flashmob Belgian Style IPA
-Ticklefight American Barleywine
-Mean Ol’ Grumpess American Style Stout aged one year in Buffalo Trace bourbon barrels

Stillwater Artisanal Ales
-Mono Galaxy dry-hopped Pilsner
-Stereo Modern IPA
-Surround Imperial Oak Smoked Wheat Stout
-Classique Postmodern Beer

Stone Brewing Company
-Stone Passion Project Reason Be Damned Belgian-Style Abbey Ale aged in Red Wine & Rose Barrels w/Stone Farms passion fruit added
-Stone Arbalest Belgian style pale aged in bourbon barrels
-Red Wine Barrel Aged Perfect Crime
-Enjoy By 4/20

Sun King Brewing Co.
-Sunlight Cream Ale
-Osiris Pale Ale
-Sun King’s Reserve Series (Barrel-aged)
-Sun King’s Reserve Series (Wild Fermented)

Swamp Head Brewery
-10-10-10 Imperial IPA
-Saison du Swamp Belgian Style Saison
-Smoke Signal Smoked Porter
-Day Trippin’ Session IPA

Toppling Goliath Brewing Company
-pseudoSue Pale Ale
-King Sue Double IPA
-Naughty Temple Whiskey Oak Aged Ale
-Mornin’ Delight Coffee Stout

3 Floyds Brewing
-TBA

Westbrook Brewing
-2014 Double Barrel Mexican Cake (blend of bourbon and rye barrel aged Mexican Cake)
-Double Barrel Smokin’ Guns (blend of bourbon and apple brandy barrel aged smoked imperial stouts)
-Lichtenhainer Weisse
-Bourbon barrel aged Sour Brown

Widmer Brothers
-Gentlemen’s Club aged in Bourbon barrels
-Rye Barrel-aged Imperial Altbier
-Don Calos Gose aged in Tequila Barrels

Hunahpu Day- the one day each year where Hunahpu will be available for purchase- will take place on March 14th, 2015 at Cigar City Brewing, located at 3924 West Spruce Street in Tampa.

Hunahpu Day returns to Tampa

In one year, it seems like Cigar City Brewing has brought Tampa both great news and terrible news. Last year’s one-day release of Hunahpu’s Imperial Stout seemed like it would be a great time full of limited beers culminating in the release of the Tampa brewery’s lauded dark magic stout. Then the worst happened and after a different kind of day than the brewery imagined, Cigar City Brewing owner Joey Redner swore off Hunahpu Day and told Tampa Bay that the festival known as Hunahpu Day was gone, never to return.

Then one foggy winter’s eve, Cigar City posted a graphic on Facebook that alluded to the return of Hunahpu Day and there was much rejoicing. The brewery promised that this year would be different, and after preliminary details were released, the message is confirmed and clear: Hunahpu Day will definitely be a different animal this year.
The details?

*Hunahpu Day tickets will cost $200 a piece. Yes, $200.
*That ticket price will include four bottles of Hunahpu’s Imperial Stout valued at $20 each.
*There will only be 2,000 tickets and members of El Catador Club will have the first chance to buy them. If all Catador members buy, then there will be 500 tickets available to the public.
*According to the brewery, “Each ticket will bear the buyer’s name, and each attendee will need an ID to match it. No exceptions.”
*A new ticketing system is in place as the brewery will use Ticketfly instead of previous services.

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The brewery commented on Facebook that “Full brewery and beer list coming next week.”

Tampans can rejoice as Tampa’s annual beer release and craft beer celebration has returned, hopefully for good.