So Happens It’s Tuesday - Molé
The Bruery

Review: 2395
Name: So Happens It's Tuesday Mole
Brewery: The Bruery
Location: Placentia, CA
Style: Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout
ABV: 15%
Canned: Unknown
Date: 13 May 2025.
Generally, the Bruery has dates on the can or bottles; this one is missing. I am serving the beer at 50 degrees in a tulip glass. The pour created a two-fingered, light tan head with poor retention. The quick dissipation left some lacing on the glass. The color is inky black with dark rusty mahogany hues. It is opaque and charting at SRM 36. Overall, it has an average appearance for a high-ABV imperial stout.
Nosing the glass, I smell chili, dark chocolate, whiskey, oak, dusty barn, cinnamon, toffee, coffee, a skosh of char, Maillard, vanilla, roasted malts, whiskey, wood resin, treacle, caramel, earthiness, and malty sweetness.
Sipping the glass, I taste whiskey, chilies, vanilla, dark chocolate, oak, treacle, char, espresso, toffee, cinnamon, dusty barn, molasses, tobacco, caramel, leather, dates, earthiness, and malty sweetness.
The mouthfeel is coating and chewy, finishing velvety warm. The body is heavy and low in carbonation.
I am enjoying this beer on this cold May night as the temperatures head south and the freezing rain pelts down on the green grass. The beer is warming in both alcohol and slight heat. I am nitpicking here: The Mole flavor is good, but I expected more sweetness to bring harmony and balance to the overall experience. Overall, this is an enjoyable stout with many adjuncts and delightful barrel aging.

16oz can poured into a snifter

A- pours a thick jet black with a one-finger foamy khaki head that reduces to a ring

S- plenty of adjuncts on the nose, with cinnamon and cayenne pepper leading the way, followed by cocoa nibs, vanilla and creamy lactose that gives a hint of marshmallow. Oaky bourbon undertones adds aromas of oak, barrel juice and a hint of coconut

T- cinnamon and pepper lead the way up front, followed by some malty chocolate notes. Mid-palate gives some oaky bourbon that adds a hint of caramel. The finish gives some milky lactose, as well as more cinnamon, which sticks around on the linger with barrel undertones

M- medium body with moderate carbonation leads to a foamy mouthfeel that turns slightly creamy into a warming finish

A: Poured into a snifter to a black beer topped by a dense and slightly rocky two finger light tan head which fades quickly to a collar around the edge of the glass with minimal lacing
S: Smells of cinnamon, chili peppers, vanilla, and chocolate with some barrel notes
T: Taste is vanilla and chocolate, oak, caramel, cinnamon, and chili pepper heat which builds slowly. Fairly smooth with clean flavor transitions. On the swallow there's more barrel notes with some oak before chocolate, coffee, roasted malts, vanilla, cinnamon, and chili peppers come around again.
M: This beer is full in body with a slightly silky feel on the palate. Carbonation is low but still effervescent at times while the beer has a drying finish due to the ABV.
O: Overall I really dig the combo of flavors that a Mole inspired beer brings to the party and this one is no exception. Really nice complexity with a lot of flavors that play very well together. Definitely one I'd like to see come back around again.

 

The aroma starts with a hit of alcohol followed by cinnamon, vanilla, some dark brown sugar sweetness, a hint of dark dried fruits, and some cocoa powder. Really pleasant on the nose.

The taste is very sweet with cinnamon, vanilla, and chocolate. There is a bit of an abv kick at the end of the sip along with a little picant note. Chocolate, Cinnamon, vanilla, and the bourbon sweetness are most pronounced.

The mouthfeel is chewy I’m with very mild carbonation and a bit of syrupiness.

This is one of the better imperial stouts from from the bruery imo. A great dessert after some tacos.

16 oz. can poured into a snifter.

Near black with a half inch tan head.

Nose: Quite a bit going on - milk chocolate, bourbon, and cinnamon are prominent along with caramel macchiato.

Taste: Strong bourbon and milk chocolate base with chili peppers and cinnamon building on it.

Feel: Full-bodied, thick, medium-low carbonation

Sweet, dark chocolate, hint of vanilla, hint of cinnamon, and pepper-spicy aromatics on this one! Taste follows with some cinnamon-chocolate notes upfront and then some heat from the cayenne spiciness AND the bourbon barrel. This is different and complex and it was fun trying to figure out the palate and nose! I was surprised,though, that this wasn't as viscous/decadent as I was expecting being 15% ABV. A little thin, but good!

Look: deep dark brown, some cola highlights when held to light.
Smell: Mole for sure. Getting all those notes and the base stout strong enough to hold its own.
Taste: mole is less assertive, base beer owns this, and that’s good.

Poured from the can into a Bruery tulip glass.

Faint fleeting off mocha to tan colored head, with thin bubbles. A bit of snappy carbonation just slightly as it dissolves, to leaving barely a faint collared ring. Body color is classic stout darkness of nearly black, but seems to actually hint of red strangely to my eyes.

Real nice aroma. Hints of light smoke strangely and more classic barrel tones of wood and sap. Faint tangy hints of chili heat, giving to a green pepper like warmth. Real nice hinting dark chocolate as well in the mix, a sort of ganache thick liquid quality that's got only a hint of sweetness.

The palate hits real nicely. Excellent warmth and a quality of superb flavors. First sip hits a light brandy warmth of intense dark fruit, followed by excellent dark cacao nibs and light carob with a Mexicano angle. Some of the barrel notes and roundness seems a little washed away but the flavors still manage to come through real nicely. Light pepper heat, green like chili but with a soothing warmth that isn't harsh.

Love the chocolate and spices angle on this, it goes into plum and dark berried to grape fruity tones. Only the roundness and depth of the barrel is missing and I wish it translated more, but can't complain. Great stuff.