Stella

El Weirdo

Love it or hate it? Simple as. I fcukin love the stuff.

Karoma

Moved from AH. Don't thank me. Move it back if you like, almighty BaWaS Mods.

DarkJager

Good old "wife beater artois" ;D Love the stuff but find the morning after to be quite nasty!!

El Weirdo

DarkJager wrote: »

Good old "wife beater artois" ;D Love the stuff but find the morning after to be quite nasty!!

Agreed. The old Nelson does have a tendency to cause blackouts and serious hangovers. But I think that's part of the charm...

Latchy

Use to like it but found it to be a bit to heavy .

The wife beater tag is probably undeserved but a lot of pubs in uk stopped selling it so there might be a good reason for it to.

I am drinking Wernesgriiner german bottled beer at the moement and it's grand stuff

AlmightyCushion

Haven't had the stuff in a while but love it. Not many places have it on tap in my neck of the woods.

Sherifu

It's good tack.

El Weirdo

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Not many places have it on tap in my neck of the woods.

Yeah... a lot of boozers don't seem to want to take a punt on it... Whoever supplies it over here won't put it in unless there are a few other pubs in the same area that take it on... No good if you're in a small town or village...:(

AlmightyCushion

Yeah Sligo had a few places (the trades club and the garavogue) but they've both closed down. I don't know of anywhere else in sligo that has it.

El Weirdo

I'm sure I've had it somewhere else in Sligo... Unfortunately, due to the amazing mind-wiping qualities of the aforementioned beverage, I can't remember where it was...:D


*Probably the Garavogue, I'm just "remembering" being somewhere else...

Edit due to flashback!:McGarrigles?

Gavin "shels"

Got 12 bottles of it tonight (€1 a bottle) ironically for my mates BBQ, love the stuff to be honest.

Adyx

InBev Ireland distribute it here (or used to anyway). They pulled the draught out of Waterford due to lack of sales along with Bass.

kmart6

Ah the lil bottles...could never go wrong really!:)

El Weirdo

Are Lidl still selling the stuff? Last time I came over from England on the ferry (about a year ago) they were selling it at £30 for 3 cases... I mean, you can't go wrong can you?

Ham'nd'egger

el_weirdo wrote: »

Are Lidl still selling the stuff? Last time I came over from England on the ferry (about a year ago) they were selling it at £30 for 3 cases... I mean, you can't go wrong can you?

It is on sale on almost all offies and supermarket; I'd imagine Lidl to be no different. €1 a bottle; God be with the days when it was nigh impossible to get and dirty expensive to boot.

I remember one bank holiday weekend some years back, myself and a friend went to my local and joined my Dad and an old neighbour for a few pints. We hit the chipper at closing time and worked our way through 16 cans of Stella and some DVD's. While the body was ok, my sinuses were never worse from drinking a beer and I'm clean of Stella ever since and the better for it if you ask me.

rubadub

el_weirdo wrote: »

he old Nelson does have a tendency to cause blackouts and serious hangovers.

Many people treat it just like any other beer, so this will happen. i.e. it is 5.2% while a lot of people "usual" is 4.3%, so it is over 20% stronger, yet people will still drink the same amounts. Since it is stronger it will mean you have less liquid in your system too, so get dehyration headaches/hangovers more too.

I find it no different to others, if that is taken into account. i.e. I might have 8 pints guinness, to compare them properly you should drink 6.5 pints of stella, and drink 1.5pints of water along with that.

I have met a few people who could not get the concept of strength at all. All they counted up was "drinks". They would be confused how they would be drunk or sober one night and not the next. 2 such people drank malibu and coke. A pint of stella has 4 times the alcohol as a shot of malibu, they would just see it as 10 malibus or 10 stellas, then wonder what went "wrong"

I used to love it up till last year. I got sick of the rotten hangovers it gave me. I've been drinking erdinger/ paulaner a lot lately and find that they taste better and the hangover is much milder.

Peadar06

I love Stella Artois when I'm in Belgium, otherwise, it is **** in Ireland.

BeerNut

Ours is made somewhere in Wales, I've read. It used to be Luton.

rubadub

Peadar06 wrote: »

I love Stella Artois when I'm in Belgium, otherwise, it is **** in Ireland.

Well I am guessing you are drinking Belgian SA in Belgium and British SA over here. So why not buy the Belgian stuff here? I am sure the UK stuff would taste just as bad in belgium too

2 completely different products TBH

gucci

rubadub wrote: »

Well I am guessing you are drinking Belgian SA in Belgium and British SA over here. So why not buy the Belgian stuff here? I am sure the UK stuff would taste just as bad in belgium too

2 completely different products TBH

As is said above, they are two different products. I know from work within the industry that they are doing massive work to try and alter the image of their brand to get away from the "wife beater" tag. With re-branding etc in the last few years.
Like most beers, its fine in small quantities, it wouldn't be my beer of choice, but on special offer etc its fine

BeerNut

It never really had the same lowbrow reputation in Ireland and is still to be found in upmarket bars. Bud is probably the nearest thing in our market to how Stella is perceived in the UK.

Blisterman

Hate it, although Peterman Artois is lovely. Haven't seen it for sale in a while though. Have they stopped selling it?

BeerNut

InBev UK dropped Artois Bock in favour of Eiken Artois, but I think Peeterman is still going. But my information is only second-hand as we don't get any of these in Ireland.

gucci

BeerNut wrote: »

InBev UK dropped Artois Bock in favour of Eiken Artois, but I think Peeterman is still going.

Yeah thats about right. Its all about creating this "La Famille Artois" of a group of brands.

oblivious

gucci wrote: »

Yeah thats about right. Its all about creating this "La Famille Artois" of a group of brands.

I would have thought a bock would be more popular than an oak flavored lager, at least in Europe

BeerNut

oblivious wrote: »

I would have thought a bock would be more popular than an oak flavored lager, at least in Europe

Not in the UK, which is the only place it's sold.

oblivious

BeerNut wrote: »

Not in the UK, which is the only place it's sold.

Ah, shows what the think of their punters in the UK if the are pushing a flavored lager over a European classic style

the beer revolu

Evil Evil Evil beer.

I WILL NOT drink anything that gives me a hangover like I had about 4 or 5 years ago from a moderate amount of Stella 33cl bottles (seven or eight over a long day with food)

EVIL I TELL YOU

Belgian Stella is ok.

zuutroy

I can see the brewery as I look out the window. It's awful stuff in Ireland (the uk brewed one) but here's it's lovely (and 12c a bottle in the supermarket). Much nicer than most of the draft beers in Ireland. Why do they send the UK crap and not the good stuff to Ireland?

BeerNut

Like anything any big brewery does: because it's more cost-effective that way.

Won't somebody please think of the shareholders!?

oblivious

zuutroy wrote: »

I can see the brewery as I look out the window. It's awful stuff in Ireland (the uk brewed one) but here's it's lovely

But you have so many other lovely beers to choose from.

gucci

Man i wish i lived there.........! Or even back at home! I miss decent beer and guinness! Living in UK presently and its impossible to go to a pub with decent beer that dosent bloody cost the earth to drink!

oblivious

gucci wrote: »

Man i wish i lived there.........! Or even back at home! I miss decent beer and guinness! Living in UK presently and its impossible to go to a pub with decent beer that dosent bloody cost the earth to drink!

where about are you?

Have tried looking at the local CAMRA site or you could try jims beer kit these guys maybe able to recommend one in you area

the beer revolu

gucci wrote: »

Man i wish i lived there.........! Or even back at home! I miss decent beer and guinness! Living in UK presently and its impossible to go to a pub with decent beer that dosent bloody cost the earth to drink!

Wow, having just got back from England, I reckon things are much better there for beer than in Ireland.
I wrote about my experiences here.

Blisterman

gucci wrote: »

Man i wish i lived there.........! Or even back at home! I miss decent beer and guinness! Living in UK presently and its impossible to go to a pub with decent beer that dosent bloody cost the earth to drink!

You're obviously looking in the wrong pubs. Even JD Wetherspoons, the cheapest pubs in the country, always have a fine selection of beer. Guinness (From Dublin), Leffe, Corona, Staropramen, a big selection of hand pumped ales, and dozens more.

gucci

Blisterman wrote: »

You're obviously looking in the wrong pubs. Even JD Wetherspoons, the cheapest pubs in the country, always have a fine selection of beer. Guinness (From Dublin), Leffe, Corona, Staropramen, a big selection of hand pumped ales, and dozens more.

Ok sorry that was a bit of a sweeping generalisation by me previously. The pubs are mostly crap though, I live in Birmingham city centre, and have found one or two nice wee pubs with a good atmosphere, the rest are in the lager lout/disco bar mode. only here 2months yet so i have alot of exploring to do obviously, but i miss my pint of guinness pulled by a bar man who isnt a student who only started work the evening before.
and the 2 wetherspoon bars i was in are pretty rough.

armour87

Love it. But I'm adamant theres more to Stella than alcohol, lightly laced with acid maybe.

oblivious

gucci wrote: »

Ok sorry that was a bit of a sweeping generalisation by me previously. The pubs are mostly crap though, I live in Birmingham city centre, and have found one or two nice wee pubs with a good atmosphere, the rest are in the lager lout/disco bar mode. only here 2months yet so i have alot of exploring to do obviously, but i miss my pint of guinness pulled by a bar man who isnt a student who only started work the evening before.
and the 2 wetherspoon bars i was in are pretty rough.

Here is a link to Birmingham CAMRA, a couple of nice places there

If you cant get good Guinness what about a dark mild, the black country is the home of the mild!

gucci

oblivious wrote: »

Here is a link to Birmingham CAMRA, a couple of nice places there

If you cant get good Guinness what about a dark mild, the black country is the home of the mild!

Thanks, I'll take a look at a few and report back i have been in the bell inn harborne, and its a nice bar, so hopefully there are a few more of the same character on that list!

BeerNut

Some more subjective information at this blog.

I think if you're living in England and want decent beer, the first thing to do is get a copy of The Good Beer Guide.

oblivious

BeerNut wrote: »

I think if you're living in England and want decent beer, the first thing to do is get a copy of The Good Beer Guide.

All ready recommended in this thread Recommended Reading

grenache

Hate the stuff, would sooner drink piss. Tastes like cheap imported tripe. Can't understand why folk in England love it so much.

daire sweeney

well as i drink i mean write this i have just had 12 bottles of it, i love it and its 20 euro for 24 bottals in maynooth......wbj go on ya good thing

Xavi6

Have to say I'm also a fan of the Wife Beater. Quite strong taste wise but it's good. Not such a big fan of the hangovers but collateral damage I suppose.

daire sweeney

i hear ya brother

the beer revolu

daire sweeney wrote: »

well as i drink i mean write this i have just had 12 bottles of it, i love it and its 20 euro for 24 bottals in maynooth......wbj go on ya good thing

You're gonna have to report back on your hangover!

I do like Stella although I feel the first 2 bottles/pints of the stuff is hard going but after that its plain sailing !

daire sweeney

ok guys, hangover not to bad, i hade a cheese and ham sandwich and 2 pints of water before going to bed, this works everytime for me!!!!:pac::pac::pac:

daire sweeney

daire sweeney wrote: »

ok guys, hangover not to bad, i hade a cheese and ham sandwich and 2 pints of water before going to bed, this works everytime for me!!!!:pac::pac::pac:

*shakes fist*

simonw

actually drink alot of this in college, mostly due to the amount of times the cases of it are on special offer. filthy hangovers though...