Place has banned me and they will not tell me why. I have heard thru the grapevine they are scared because I come in, walking with a limp. After I had a stroke in 2013, they banned me in 2015. Before banning me the bartenders would laugh at me when they thought I didn't see. Beer is flat and tastes like crap.
Tiffany G.
The craft beer was refreshing and the patio was lovely to sit on. I enjoyed looking at the artwork on the walls inside around the bar. The bartender was nice and quick to our order. I love the name of the place and they give free stickers.
Chris Rill
Make sure you go to the Tap Room and entrance and not the Brewery door. Good selection of beer with 10 different seltzer on tap. Outdoor seating and indoor seating available.
Luis Viera
Great beer and very cool vibe.
Mark W.
On our way home from the beach, we plotted a course the long way home to some breweries that we have not visited before. Mother Earth, had there beers before, the mainstream regulars but; never the specialty/ seasonal offerings. We were not disappointed, although the brewery did not open until 1pm on Sunday so we walked around the mostly deserted town until they opened. We were pleasantly surprised to find this gem in a town that is trying to revitalize itself like many other small NC towns. Beer was great, we opted for some high ABV stouts. Atmosphere was open and warm, definitely a nice hang out for the locals.
Kami H.
Let's start off with we found a tap room with GREAT music playing and they LOVE dogs! We were able to enjoy some great beers on tap, chill with our pup and even give him a few little biscuits that were on the house! They have a place to chill outside as well and play some patio games they have waiting for you! What a really cool place for those of you that travel with your furry friend and would love to have some TASTY brews without leaving your pup in the hotel room! Our Kylo says THANK YOU Mother Earth Tap Room!
Scott L.
Laid back atmosphere, great beer and good selection. Seating good for groups as well as a few people, including different options. Recommend.
Lindsey H.
Great atmosphere, excellent beer, and superb service! It's nice to have a place to come and chill with a good book on an afternoon.
Mary D.
My husband and I stopped here to sample the local beer after having dinner across the street at Chef and the Farmer. Our hostess was lovely and made excellent suggestions based on our tastes, and we enjoyed chatting with some of the other patrons. We left with some souvenirs and canned beer to bring back to New York. We will definitely visit again if ever back in the area.
Bobby A.
Good place to hang out and enjoy some beer. Locals are friendly. The ME Lodge is best option for weekend stay. Plenty to do in Kinston to good small town getaway. This place is clean and inviting theyll take you on a tour if your interested in seeing the production. Establishment is very clean
This is a pretty cool spot. They have a nice wide open floor plan so there's plenty of room for everybody. It has a really cool modern feel. They had all their standard beers on tap as well as several special collaborations with other breweries, some limited releases, and some taproom only selections. The menu is mounted in an interesting spot. Considering the size of the room, one would think that they would have several screens showing the tap list. The bar is square and if you are on either side, left or right, it's kind of hard to read. If you are on the far end of the bar there's too many obstacles to see the top list and it's too far away. In order to stand in front of the menu, you have to go to the close side and there's not a lot of room there so you basically have to be standing almost underneath the screen and looking upward to try to read it. Obviously not a big deal but interesting positioning. They have a large outdoor beer garden with a decent amount of seating. They offer corn hole and ball toss. Then there's a little alley that goes a little bit further that has additional seating which I believe is the smoking area. They are pet friendly outdoors only.
Michael M.
Just stopped by the taproom on a Sunday at two in the afternoon and was flat out ignored by the bartender. My wife asked for something non-alcoholic since she doesn't drink beer. She said flatly "water". No apologies or asked what options she had. I work in the beer industry in Durham and this kind of service is ridiculous, others were helped after we had been sitting at the bar for a while. I buy and serve MEB and currently have Dark Cloud on tap. We made a special trip here on our way home from the beach and it just kind of ruined our day. Love the beer but I'm not sure I'll make the trip again, Unfortunate...... I went across the street and grabbed a "Long Weekend" somewhere else.
Jill M.
Warm and welcoming. Super clean, modern and open. Our bar tender took good care of us as we sampled beers to make a final decision. Lager for me, dark cloud and red wine for the others in our party. Great outdoor space for warmer evenings ahead. Comfortable outdoor seating in a designated nonsmoking outdoor area. There is also a smoking area outdoors. Clean restrooms and a Mother Earth gift shop if you need a sweatshirt or t-shirt.
Dan T.
After all the things we heard (not to mention the beer we've drank from that brewery) my girlfriend and I were kind of disappointed in the Tap Room, but not because of the beer, because of the service. This was our third stop on our brewery tour of Eastern NC. We did the Greenville area first, stayed over, then drove down to Kinston to start our second day. The bartender that greeted us and seemed nice at first and very talkative, but there weren't that many of us in the bar. Her name was Lindsay I think, and we told her we were from Angier and she said she was from Pittsboro, though we didn't seem to know any of the same people. After a few minutes, it was clear why she was so talkative. Our bartender was drunk! She later said to another customer (a regular I think) that she had drank a bottle or more of wine before coming into work. Honestly, we were glad when someone else came into the bar, it was a little uncomfortable. Our initial beers sat empty for a while, but she finally came back from down the hall (maybe the brewery itself) and got us another round. The beer was good, and like Duck Rabbit, the beer is better when it's on tap. The tap room was really modern (we didn't expect that in Kinston) and they had an area out back to play cornhole and other games. We left there and ate at a restaurant across the street and then headed out of town. We only tried two of their beers, but if I was back in the area, I'd go back and try more, as long as we had a sober server.
Melissa G.
This is the same review from Mother Earth Brewery. There were four of us, and we loved the tap room, the tour, the outside area, and the beer. The bartender was not that great; he wasn't rude but wasn't friendly either and couldn't answer some basic questions about their beer. Other than that, we spent a few hours here and had a great time. It's a huge space with a large bar area that is stylish, bar top tables along the walls, leather couches and seats along the opposite wall (which were so comfortable). The building is also great - vintage! Tired of the scene inside? Go outside to their back patio and sit in their comfortable seating out there, or play one of their many yard games they have out there. Side note: their corn hole boards need to be repainted, and the bean bags need to be replaced as we barely found enough to play the game. The tour was informative, interesting, and thorough. The place is spotless and they were cleaning the entire time we were in there. The thing we thought was odd, is they offer no samples of the beer. We've been on numerous brewery tours, and there are always samples. The random old school slide inside the brewery is very fun, so plan on taking a moment to slide down! The gift shop is perfect. Not too much, not too little, and not over-priced. Stay at Mother Earth Lodge while you're there so you can easily walk to and from the brewery.
Place has banned me and they will not tell me why. I have heard thru the grapevine they are scared because I come in, walking with a limp. After I had a stroke in 2013, they banned me in 2015. Before banning me the bartenders would laugh at me when they thought I didn't see. Beer is flat and tastes like crap.
The craft beer was refreshing and the patio was lovely to sit on. I enjoyed looking at the artwork on the walls inside around the bar. The bartender was nice and quick to our order. I love the name of the place and they give free stickers.
Make sure you go to the Tap Room and entrance and not the Brewery door. Good selection of beer with 10 different seltzer on tap. Outdoor seating and indoor seating available.
Great beer and very cool vibe.
On our way home from the beach, we plotted a course the long way home to some breweries that we have not visited before. Mother Earth, had there beers before, the mainstream regulars but; never the specialty/ seasonal offerings. We were not disappointed, although the brewery did not open until 1pm on Sunday so we walked around the mostly deserted town until they opened. We were pleasantly surprised to find this gem in a town that is trying to revitalize itself like many other small NC towns. Beer was great, we opted for some high ABV stouts. Atmosphere was open and warm, definitely a nice hang out for the locals.
Let's start off with we found a tap room with GREAT music playing and they LOVE dogs! We were able to enjoy some great beers on tap, chill with our pup and even give him a few little biscuits that were on the house! They have a place to chill outside as well and play some patio games they have waiting for you! What a really cool place for those of you that travel with your furry friend and would love to have some TASTY brews without leaving your pup in the hotel room! Our Kylo says THANK YOU Mother Earth Tap Room!
Laid back atmosphere, great beer and good selection. Seating good for groups as well as a few people, including different options. Recommend.
Great atmosphere, excellent beer, and superb service! It's nice to have a place to come and chill with a good book on an afternoon.
My husband and I stopped here to sample the local beer after having dinner across the street at Chef and the Farmer. Our hostess was lovely and made excellent suggestions based on our tastes, and we enjoyed chatting with some of the other patrons. We left with some souvenirs and canned beer to bring back to New York. We will definitely visit again if ever back in the area.
Good place to hang out and enjoy some beer. Locals are friendly. The ME Lodge is best option for weekend stay. Plenty to do in Kinston to good small town getaway. This place is clean and inviting theyll take you on a tour if your interested in seeing the production. Establishment is very clean
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This is a pretty cool spot. They have a nice wide open floor plan so there's plenty of room for everybody. It has a really cool modern feel. They had all their standard beers on tap as well as several special collaborations with other breweries, some limited releases, and some taproom only selections. The menu is mounted in an interesting spot. Considering the size of the room, one would think that they would have several screens showing the tap list. The bar is square and if you are on either side, left or right, it's kind of hard to read. If you are on the far end of the bar there's too many obstacles to see the top list and it's too far away. In order to stand in front of the menu, you have to go to the close side and there's not a lot of room there so you basically have to be standing almost underneath the screen and looking upward to try to read it. Obviously not a big deal but interesting positioning. They have a large outdoor beer garden with a decent amount of seating. They offer corn hole and ball toss. Then there's a little alley that goes a little bit further that has additional seating which I believe is the smoking area. They are pet friendly outdoors only.
Just stopped by the taproom on a Sunday at two in the afternoon and was flat out ignored by the bartender. My wife asked for something non-alcoholic since she doesn't drink beer. She said flatly "water". No apologies or asked what options she had. I work in the beer industry in Durham and this kind of service is ridiculous, others were helped after we had been sitting at the bar for a while. I buy and serve MEB and currently have Dark Cloud on tap. We made a special trip here on our way home from the beach and it just kind of ruined our day. Love the beer but I'm not sure I'll make the trip again, Unfortunate...... I went across the street and grabbed a "Long Weekend" somewhere else.
Warm and welcoming. Super clean, modern and open. Our bar tender took good care of us as we sampled beers to make a final decision. Lager for me, dark cloud and red wine for the others in our party. Great outdoor space for warmer evenings ahead. Comfortable outdoor seating in a designated nonsmoking outdoor area. There is also a smoking area outdoors. Clean restrooms and a Mother Earth gift shop if you need a sweatshirt or t-shirt.
After all the things we heard (not to mention the beer we've drank from that brewery) my girlfriend and I were kind of disappointed in the Tap Room, but not because of the beer, because of the service. This was our third stop on our brewery tour of Eastern NC. We did the Greenville area first, stayed over, then drove down to Kinston to start our second day. The bartender that greeted us and seemed nice at first and very talkative, but there weren't that many of us in the bar. Her name was Lindsay I think, and we told her we were from Angier and she said she was from Pittsboro, though we didn't seem to know any of the same people. After a few minutes, it was clear why she was so talkative. Our bartender was drunk! She later said to another customer (a regular I think) that she had drank a bottle or more of wine before coming into work. Honestly, we were glad when someone else came into the bar, it was a little uncomfortable. Our initial beers sat empty for a while, but she finally came back from down the hall (maybe the brewery itself) and got us another round. The beer was good, and like Duck Rabbit, the beer is better when it's on tap. The tap room was really modern (we didn't expect that in Kinston) and they had an area out back to play cornhole and other games. We left there and ate at a restaurant across the street and then headed out of town. We only tried two of their beers, but if I was back in the area, I'd go back and try more, as long as we had a sober server.
This is the same review from Mother Earth Brewery. There were four of us, and we loved the tap room, the tour, the outside area, and the beer. The bartender was not that great; he wasn't rude but wasn't friendly either and couldn't answer some basic questions about their beer. Other than that, we spent a few hours here and had a great time. It's a huge space with a large bar area that is stylish, bar top tables along the walls, leather couches and seats along the opposite wall (which were so comfortable). The building is also great - vintage! Tired of the scene inside? Go outside to their back patio and sit in their comfortable seating out there, or play one of their many yard games they have out there. Side note: their corn hole boards need to be repainted, and the bean bags need to be replaced as we barely found enough to play the game. The tour was informative, interesting, and thorough. The place is spotless and they were cleaning the entire time we were in there. The thing we thought was odd, is they offer no samples of the beer. We've been on numerous brewery tours, and there are always samples. The random old school slide inside the brewery is very fun, so plan on taking a moment to slide down! The gift shop is perfect. Not too much, not too little, and not over-priced. Stay at Mother Earth Lodge while you're there so you can easily walk to and from the brewery.