Mole sauce is one of the most interesting flavors in all of Mexican cooking. It's unsweetened chocolate with a little hint of spiciness, recalling the ancient Mexican use of chocolate as a hot spiced beverage. Next time you're at a Mexican restaurant, check out chicken mole or mole poblano. Then pick up a bottle of El Mole Ocho by New Holland Brewery, because this is a beer designed to taste like mole sauce and it really does.
El Mole Ocho is conceptually similar to a chocolate stout, but smoother and with just a tiny hint of chile. That's like genuine mole sauce, which is only lightly spiced, and savory rather than sweet. But this isn't just a gimmick, it's actually a very satisfying beer with a continuously interesting and rewarding flavor.
Fair warning- and this should really be put on most of my beer blogs- but this one will knock your socks off. I tend to go for the high gravity beers, and El Mole Ocho is probably about twice as strong as a typical brew. If you drink the whole bottle at one sitting, you will probably get really drunk, unless you've got a high tolerance. I drank this one myself, but I'm a big guy and I drink a lot of beer. Most people will probably want to either split it with a fellow beer-and-chocolate lover or pace it out a bit more. Or drink it with a nice plate of chicken mole for a holistic chocolatey experience!