Cigar City's apocalyptic Mayan-inspired stout

Cigar City Brewing, which has some very creatively named beers,* occasionally brews a beer called Hunahpu's Imperial Stout, which is named -- according to that dubious source Wikipedia -- after a character out of Mayan mythology. Cigar City calls it a Mayan chocolate imperial stout "brewed with Peruvian cacao, Ancho and Pasilla chiles, cinamon and vanilla beans with a nod toward the frothy cacao drink consumed by the ancient Mayans."

The 12 people who have reviewed this beer on BeerAdvocate give it an average A+ grade. I only hope it's better than Dogfish Head's disastrous Theobroma, which is also inspired by pre-Columbian beers and brewed with chilies. I hope it is more like Rogue's wonderful Chocolate Stout.**

Anyway, Cigar City blogs that they are asked weekly about this beer and have set a release date for 750 mL bottles. It's Friday, March 12, 2010 at 7 p.m. at the brewery. The bottles will cost $20 each, which is certainly expensive but not outrageous. I paid that much for a bottle of Brooklyn Brewery's Black Ops.

Mark your calendars.***

*For example, Marshal Zhukov Imperial Stout and Warmer Winter Winter Warmer

**Ego note: Rogue pulled a blurb -- "Each time I have it I chuckle because it's so good" -- from my BeerAdvocate review for their newsletter way back in 2003.

***Cigar City -- as a joke -- has previously said that Hunahpu's Imperial Stout will be released in 2013 because some people believe that the Mayan calendar predicts the world will end in 2012.