TAMPA, FL – The 8th Annual Hunahpu’s Day® is this Saturday, March 11, 2017

Held each March to celebrate the release of Cigar City Brewing’s award-winning Hunahpu’s Imperial Stout, Hunahpu’s Day has grown into one of the country’s premier craft beer events with this year’s event bringing together over 140 of the world’s most talented and sought-after brewers. This year’s attending breweries will include world renowned breweries including Aslin Beer Company, Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project, Magic Rock Brewing and Three Floyds Brewing.

Held in Downtown Tampa’s Cotanchobee Fort Brooke Park from 11am – 4pm, this Tampa Bay Beer Week event is dedicated to celebrating beer, food and camaraderie. This year’s event will bring together over 4,000 craft beer enthusiasts in the heart of downtown to Tampa with festival profits benefitting the Tampa Bay Brewer’s Guild.

The festival is the only way for beer enthusiasts to get their hands on bottles of Cigar City Brewing’s Hunahpu’s Imperial Stout, a massive of 11% ABV brewed with cinnamon, vanilla, cacao and ancho and pasilla peppers.

Visit the Hunahpu’s Day 2017® website [http://hunahpusday.com/] to see full event details.

About Cigar City Brewing

Cigar City Brewing, makers of Jai Alai and Hunahpu’s Imperial Stout, was founded in 2009 by Joey Redner with the goal of creating quality beer that reflected the flavors and history of the Tampa region. This unique perspective resonated with the local and national markets alike and the brewery has quickly grown from 1,000 barrels of beer in 2009 to an excess of 65,000 barrels produced in 2016. The 2016 partnership with Oskar Blues of Lyons, Colorado ushered in a new era of growth for this Florida-based organization, with new markets and technologies on the horizon.