Kind Beers Pale Ale

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

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker

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Pours a nice copper hue, a nice white head which dissapates quickly. Attack is nice a malty, which fades to a nice hoppy flavor. Finishes with a nice, almost bitter flavor with some spice. Kind of like a spicy, more hopppy Fat Tire without as much biscuit.

12 oz. Clear copper with a lasting inch of creamy foam. Nice aroma of earthy tea leaf, sourish orange, and caramel. Flavors of caramel, citrus, resiny wood, tea leaf, toasted bread, nutshells, a hint of chocolate, and a lightly sour metallic note are well balanced. Medium body is smoothly carbonated, and well-dried with hops. Hard to believe this is 7.3%. Unique, excellent ale that seems to be a hybrid of the best aspects of English and American takes on a strong ale. Probably would get better ratings in the American Strong category on RB. Crunchy lacing all over the glass. Thomas Creek is getting better and better.

Originally reviewed: 2/9/09. Wow! I was really impressed with this beer. Pours a deep orange/gold with a nice milkshake-like frothy head on top. This retained perfectly and left nice sticky globs along the glass edge as well as perfect sip rings. Smelled of piney hops, and deep sour citrus. Great scent. I love the fruity bitterness on this one. It’s not so overpowering that it’ll knock you down, but it is satisfying as all get out. Wonderfully balanced, as I can also taste the malty sweetness coming through. Mouthfeel was full and crisp. Excellent. This one was an easy drinker for sure, and though the ABV is higher, I wanted another and another. Great brew. Recommend.

Bottle. Can’t find any online information at all about this beer. For a "pale ale", I’m surprised by the exceptionally clear copper pour. Scant foam. Nutty-toasty Munich malt aroma, plus gentle grape jam and bubblegum scents. Dark breadcrust and boiled peanut malt flavor is mildly plummy and strongly peppery. Toasty/roasty, almost coffeish aftertaste. Chewy palate. Pale Ale, WTF? This rates among the best traditional bocks I’ve ever tasted.

Darker than i imagined for a pale ale. Tasty, but i will not die if I can not find it again.

Taste 9/8 Bottled in 8/8 I think. This appears to be the first batch of this beer. KB-0001. ABV is 7.3% now(IIPA Instead of pale ale?). Looks: Copper body with thick off white head. Very active body with a very thick foam. Aroma: Pine and soap from the hops, very little else. Taste: One of the better organics I’ve had (If it is?bottle doesn’t say, old ratings/recipe claim this). Smooth and mild for the 7.3% abv. Medium bodied, no malt chew/meat like I expected. Nothing special. What I had seemed very fresh. Best South Carolina brew I have had.

Pours a nice caramel-amber into the glass, with a decent off-white head that diminishes to a thin ring with soapy lace. The nose has lots of caramel and toffee notes. Some nice caramel upfront, a biscuity malt mid-palate, and some nice closing abrupt bitters to finish. Typical APA, but does show some promise in its delivery. The mouthfeel is lively enough, with a full body and just a touch of alcohol to twinge the tongue on the end of the pull. Not a bad offering here, honestly.

Well mannered American Pale with ample fruitiness and floral notes in the nose, mellow malt backbone that carries the beer, and a long lightly bitter finish that shifts smoothly between lightly sweet caramel maltiness and tempered hop notes. Well balanced indeed and a good match for pretty much any pub grub.

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.

Bottle from Charleston Beer Exchange. Pours darkish amber with a foamy beige head. Aroma of citrus/fruit hop. Flavor is malty with citrus hop. Finishes more bitter than not. The relatively high ABV may be providing some extra smoothness. It’s a pretty decent drink.