Kind Beers Pale Ale

Kind Beers
Brewed at Thomas Creek Brewery
Style: American Pale Ale
Charlotte, North Carolina USA

Date: February 15, 2009
Mode: Bottle
Source: Brusin Ales, Asheville NC
Appearance: clear copper, sudsy off white head, bits of lace
Aroma: sweet crystal malt aroma, nice light floral and citrus hops
Flavor: sweet malt flavor is well balanced by the floral hops, just the right amount of bitterness to balance the sweetness, bready and caramel character, light peppery hop spicyness
Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 12/20
Rating: 3/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: *4

@Noogfest High5–pours an off white ring for a head and copper color. Aroma is perfumy hops, medium malt. Taste is herbal/spice hops medium malt.

Bottle courtesy of durhambeer. Pours copper with a rocky white head. Smells of dough, spice, some resin. Tastes of pine resin with a caramelly finish.

Sampled at Noogfest High 5. The body was medium bronze with a light khaki head. The aroma was oranges with some fresh bread. Tastes of oranges and raw bread crust. Decent.

Pale coppery red, thin white head. Molassess, brown sugar, rummy aroma some honey, as well. Nice flavor, too brown sugar, rum at first, with a nice crisp, hoppy - pine, I guess - finish. Tasty, easy to drink, hides its 7.3% well.

The aroma is hoppy with grassy and floral hops with caramel malt and a touch of butterscotch and paper. The appearance is amber with an average head. The flavor is like the aroma with a nice malty butterscotch finish with hop bitterness. The palate is average. Overall not a bad example of the style but it just doesn’t have that it factor to make it good.

12 ounce bottle - $6.25 at Taco Mac in Kennesaw, Georgia. Appearance: Pours out a fairly clear, mahogany-hued body with, despite my ever so eager pour, only managed to form a finger worth of white head which fizzled out pretty quickly. Smell: Caramelly maltiness leads the bouquet, with a lighter note of standard bread crusts. Supporting hop notes of fresh herbs with a minor, background hint of lemon rind. Taste: Pale malts welcome in additions of bread crusts and sweet-tasting caramel. As with the nose, the caramel is the strongest component in regards to the malts. Hops present a spicy, zesty herbaceousness with the faintest hint of powderized lemon pith. Medium amount of bitterness overall. The back half is largely toasty with more of the persistent bitterness holding on until the dry, bitterish finish. Mouthfeel: Just barely squeaks into being medium-bodied. Medium-light carbonation. Drinkability: A decent brew that has a solid backing of caramelly malts and a sufficient, predominately English hop character.

Nice ruby tintend amber coloured body with a thinnish tan head. Aroma of fresh hops, strong grass and citrus with a bit of pine. Medium-bodied; Strong hoppy flavour with some citrus and grapefruit coming through. Aftertaste shows a lot of malt - with a good body and an amazingly sound finish. Overall, a good beer - a nice APA - without too much flavour one way or another. Definitely worth trying if you like hoppier beers but don’t want too much alcohol, etc. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Total Wine in Durham, North Carolina on 31-August-2008, sampled on 13-September-2008 on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.