Green Valley Brewing Stone Mill Pale Ale
To craft a remarkable Pale Ale, you must begin with the finest ingredients. Stone Mill Pale Ale is made with 100% organic barley malt, certified by the USDA for a classic taste that is the perfect balance of maltiness and hop bouqet. For more info see www.drinkstonemill.com.
2.5
330 reviews
St. Louis, United States
Community reviews
Fairly pronounced caramel aroma. Flavor definitely dominated by malt rather than hops. Simple and slightly papery (might not have been the freshest bottle). Decent but unremarkable.
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To review this beer I will just modify the commercial description from above...
To craft a remarkable Pale Ale, you must begin with the finest ingredients. Stone Mill Pale Ale is made with 100% organic barley malt, certified by the USDA for a classic taste that is the perfect balance of maltiness and hop bouqet. To craft a mediocre Pale Ale you should just do what we did.
Pours amber with offwhite head. Smell is sticky band aid malt and light hops. Taste is a bit more malty and sticky than necessary with a touch of guaze flavor but with some hops at least. The malt character hurts this beer. Drinkable, but not great.
Bottle. Pours a clear orange with a fizzy white head. Aroma of malts with some hops. Flavor is all hops with a very strange aftertaste. Not good.
Sampled a six pack. Was greatly disppointed ot hear it was a Busch brew. Overall, it was pretty weak and not worth the cost. Pours really pale and goes down decently, but with a funky aftertaste.
Light golden coloured body with a super thin white head. Aroma of funk, super old and gross hops and a bit of cardboard. Light-bodied; Full of up-front flavour of bitter disgusting hops and gross malt. Aftertaste finishes with more funk, bitter off-flavours and inopportune sweetness and flavours and just generally, bad tastes. Overall, avoid this at all costs, unless for some reason - you like horrible beers. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Oliver’s Beverage in Albany, New York on 10 January 2007.
Could of been stronger, used more kick. Other than that, it was a non-offending pale ale.
Bottle. Poured hazy amber with a moderate head. Smells of grain, grass, and orange. Tastes citrusy, grain malts, and followed by some piney hops. Afertaste is very short. Body is a little thin.
Amber in color with a small white head. Aroma is of malt and hops. Taste is of malt, citrus and water.
12 oz. bottle poured in shaker- poured transparent copper tan, low carbonation, half finger off white head formed but laced very little. Aroma of malt, citrus, and even a note of pine. Hits the mouth with a low thin body, alot of sweetness up front and malt is hard to distinguish from it, deteriorates in the middle and finishes like hard water. Yeah, I knew it was an AB product before hand, and if you didn’t, you can tell on the finish.
12oz bottle from Willow Bend Liquors (Tampa, FL). Pours a generally clear light amber color with a one finger white tan foamy head that settles slowly. Aroma is sweet and malty with notes of citrus, grapefruit, some strange funkiness, yeast, bread, some hints of honey and caramel. Flavor is sweet and malty with creamy honey notes with some hints of caramel, spice, grass and yeast. Generally light body with a sweet malty and slighty hoppy finish.
Amber in color. Malty nose. Lots of caramel and malt in the taste, but really not much else except maybe a bit of hops. Its not terrible, but not really great either.
12 oz bottle. Poured a clear amber color with a two finger white head. The aroma was bland, but notes of malt and hops were present. The flavor was heavy metallic, with sweet malt present as well.
Pours amber with a decent of white head. Aroma of a little malt and a hint of hops. Flavor is a strange sweetness with a metallic finish.
I was a little unimpressed with this as it was being served at a decent steakhouse out of the bottle. It is oddly reminiscent of Killian’s with an extra bit of hops to me. Oh well, it is what it is.
sample dropped off by a bud rep. Sweet musty aroma, metallic, sweet traces of honey. Pours a clear amber with no head. Malty and sweet with a metallic coppery flavor, like i just put a penny in my mouth, a mild crisp hop bite, but very sweet with stale cereal like flavors.
Bottle from Total Wine. Another loser. Amber. Grains in the nose. Stinky flavor. Damn I am on my way to a lot of ratings uner 1.0 and I dont give a shit. Beers like this shouldnt ever get a decent rating in my book.
clear amber, medium quickly dissipating head, minor lacing. sweet malt, mild suggestion of hops in the aroma. sweet malt dominates in the flavor, with only the most subtle hint of hops, but the sweet is much too obvious. light bodied, mild malty sweet finish. after the beer warms a bit, there is a disconcerting candy corn sweetness to it.
Pours amber orange with off-white head. Light malt and caramel aroma with a slight hop presence. Caramel and grain flavor.
Crystal clear light orance with a bubbling muck of white head that fades quickly. Aroma of citrus and caramel that is too sweet for an APA. Taste… huh? Malt, ripe apple and mild flavorless bitter. Tinted carbonated water. And certified organic? I mean I get it but it always puzzles me since anything carbon based is technically organic. Hell, I’m organic and I’m certifiable so hence I’m certified organic.
Crushed with Jakebra. Smells like nast. Tastes like nast. Here is the bud light of pale ales my friends.
perpatrators of hate get a grip this is a good beer nobama bin ladin gonna be the prez
Bottle courtesy of Rob, who had picked this up randomly. Amber. Aroma faintly of caramel and undefined hop bitterness. Flavor matched, with some hop floral character present. Inoffensive, but just not a whole lot going on here. The Cally’s Amber that we had just finished had way more hops than this thing did.
Tap @ north rim of Grand Canyon. Clear amber color, short head. Aroma of toffee, some hop. Caramel taste, only slight bitter. I thought it was not that bad strangely enough. Maybe I was just really eager for any beer.
On tap. I was very disappointed by this beer. I was about to go to a wedding and stopped at the bar in the hotel lobby to get a beer before a night of open bar that consisted of Bud Lt. I was hoping for something with bitter undertones but this was not it. The beer had a nice clean deep gold appearance with a mildly malty aroma. The taste is rather bland with no hint that this is a pale ale at all.
Bronze color with a big beige head. Aroma of sugar and caramel malt. Sugary sweet flavor and a nasty bitterness in the finish.
Pours nicely, fluffy head and a lightly colored pale ale. Smell is alright, some maltiness, but a strange metallic note. Taste is much the same, no real hop presence and faint maltiness followed by a metallic aftertaste that the nose hinted at. Another average Anheuser-Busch effort, not sure I’ll ever be impressed with one of their beers at this point.
Pours amber with a 1 inch head that settles to 3/8" of frothiness. Aroma is mostly malty with a tinge of hops. The beer is very clear and has almost no bubbles. Flavor is of limestone, mineral water, bread, malt and dough. Taste is earthy and agreeable. Texture is medium erring on the thick side. Finish is malty and a bit metallic?
Aroma is malty, grainy, sort of like being in a silo. Appearance is somewhat pleasing, an amber color, weak white foam head. Flavor is weak malyness, with a slight amount of hops. The finish was ok, a definite hop bite at the end. Weak beer in many ways. I hope beer doesn’t taste like tis across the board if everyone goes with organic farming..
(Bottle). Not much aroma. What there is hints of caramel. Nice clear copper color, with a small light tan head. Flavor? Well there is some, but not a very pleasant mix of grasses and I suppose something meant to be malts. Primarily a metallic scrape to the palate. I am trying to be fair here.