Hub City Review: Kind Red

Brewed by Dave on June 19th, 2010

Kind ales. Based in North Carolina but made in South Carolina and here, reviewed by South Carolina’s Hub City Review guys:

“Coming to us from North Carolina by way of Thomas Creek Brewery in Greenville, is this offering from Kind Beers. The folks over at Thomas Creek brew this tasty beer for the small startup, and it just recently showed up here in Spartanburg at Oasis. It’s malty ale, with that classic fruity flavor, and all those fermented syrup notes you’d expect from a darker belgian ale. Also, there’s a nice herbal, earthy quality to the subdued hop presence in this one that helps round out the nose quite nicely. The taste though, while pretty good overall, is a bit on the weak side. It could be that we’re looking at a new company trying to bring in some people with something a bit mellow at first (Kind only has two beers on the market at the moment), or it could be a bad transfer from small batch to larger production run, but whatever the case, those nice malty belgian tastes just weren’t substantial enough for us. Still, overall this is one definitely worth trying, especially for those who are–to put it gently–less geeky about this stuff than we are. Check out the video for the full review.”

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