Green Valley Brewing Stone Mill Pale Ale

Brewed by Anheuser-Busch InBev
Style: American Pale Ale
St. Louis, Missouri USA

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker, Tulip

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Nice American style organic pale ale from AB. Smooth yet good balance of hops and malt. No aftertaste whatsoever.

Bottle. Pours clear amber with a thin head. Sweet malty aroma. The flavor is well balanced with alight sweetness and a hint of floral hops. Not bad.

12oz bottle into a pint glass. Aroma is sweet, fruity, and citrusy. The flavor is the same but with a strange dry metal taste mixed in.

12oz bottle: appearance is med brown with small white head, aroma of malt with a hint of hops, flavor is mostly pale malt and a hint of caramel and hops, decent beer but i bought it thinking it was made in New Hampshire!

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.

Overall Impression: 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.