Tonight's selection is New Belgium's Lips of Faith Series Cocoa Mole (the "e" should have one of those fancy Spanish things over it, but I don't know how to do that via a blog post). Anyway, Joel and I split a bomber of this tonight, and I am still not sure what to think of it. Described as a Chile beer at 9% ABV, this thing is all over the place. Seems like NB used a brown as a base and added a metric shit-ton of spices and bunch of peppers. The aroma is overpowering cinnamon, but the taste is all chocolate and pepper (mainly on the finish). I am super-sensitive to peppers/spicy stuff (hot spicy, that is) and haven't had any issues with other pepper beers (specifically Founders BA Spite Guaillo and Left Hand FTB Pepper Porter) but this one was almost like a slow burn well after the finish. Kind of strange...but I am still feeling it a bit an hour later. Oh well...not a huge issue and not a deal breaker. Unfortunately, though, there are other Chile beers that destroy this one (see above), so I can't say that I was incredibly impressed. Cocoa Mole was a decent beer, and I would recommend it to anybody who wants to try something really out of the ordinary...that said, if you can some how manage to get to Founders and they happen to have the BA Spite on draft, get that instead....but good-freakin-luck...just buy the Cocoa Mole...
ohtheguilt Ba score 3.5 out of 5.0
Almost bought one of these tonight just for the interesting bottle, but decided against it as we haven't been that impressed with the Lips of Faith series. It seems like they're just throwing ingredients together just to be different as I haven't liked a single one I've tried.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't agree more on how it seems like they are just throwing stuff together. That said, maybe some of this series needs some age...not sure though. I will say that I was pleasantly surprised by Clutch (the dark/black sour), as it was a pretty easy drinker. All the others in the series (that I have tried)...well...not a huge hit for me...
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