Kind Folk from Alvarado Street is an approachable American lager that brings craft touches.

A day outdoors spent roaming between stages of, say, a three-day music festival calls for a certain style of beer. That’s where a solid American-style lager comes into its own.

“Nobody wants a heavy beer,” explains Brock Bill, director of marketing for Alvarado Street Brewery. Instead, the goal is something easy, approachable – but not trite or forgettable. Enter Kind Folk, a new beer from the folks at Alvarado Street, brewed specifically for the Rebels & Renegades Music Festival taking place Oct. 6-8 at the Monterey County Fair & Event Center – although it is also available on tap now at the brewery’s locations for all to enjoy.

True to lager form, it is light, lean and fresh, drawing on the natural sweetness of malt. “We didn’t want it to be hoppy,” Bill points out. “It’s smooth and easy drinking.”

Yet Kind Folk is also a craft beer, swaying between a clean, dry snap of wheat chaff and the warm embrace of crusty bread, with a little bite of orange zest, which settles into a soft, peppery finish that lingers on the palate. Unlike mass-produced lagers, Kind Folk has just enough might that it wraps your senses before drifting away – a session beer with connoisseur appeal, which is an achievement that builds on the brewery’s runaway success, Monterey Beer.

“We’re pumped about it,” Bill says.

Kind Folk will be available in cans at Rebels & Renegades and on tap (followed by canned, as well) at the Alvarado Street Brewery locations in Monterey, Carmel and Salinas.