Although not truck related as the title suggests ,just interested as the beer nanny here in uk as you know decided to reduce the alcoholic content and in doing so ruined a very good beer , i ask as i ain’t been over there for a while, and the pidou,and a few other places advertise it online as 5.2% not the rubbish sold here , anyone know ?
Stella was “a very good beer”? 
If Stella doesn’t have enough alcohol in it for your liking then drink Spesh or Super instead. Or Gold Label 
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Rob K:
Stella was “a very good beer”?If Stella doesn’t have enough alcohol in it for your liking then drink Spesh or Super instead. Or Gold Label
No thank’s i couldn’t drink that stuff, tramp juice we call it,lol most of em round here drink it , no the original stella was ok, the english substitute is crap , bit like the french kronenburg 1664 over there its higher than the watered down version sold here, and both also taste completely different it’s not just the higher alc content, your skol super or tennents are vile and are like syrup mind you they would be at around 9.2%
tommy t:
Rob K:
Stella was “a very good beer”?If Stella doesn’t have enough alcohol in it for your liking then drink Spesh or Super instead. Or Gold Label
No thank’s i couldn’t drink that stuff, tramp juice we call it,lol most of em round here drink it , no the original stella was ok, the english substitute is crap , bit like the french kronenburg 1664 over there its higher than the watered down version sold here, and both also taste completely different it’s not just the higher alc content, your skol super or tennents are vile and are like syrup mind you they would be at around 9.2%
Joking aintcha? It does feel like drinking syrup for the first couple of weeks and you’ll have the hangovers to go with it too, but after that you won’t drink anything, trust me. Tennents Super in particular is very nice imho. Spesh is defo tramp juice and not as nice but then I’ve never been a lover of the Carlsberg labelled beers.
Sorry for derailing your thread. 
I used to work for a beer distributor here in Spain, stella is widely available at 5.2% but then so are all the other beers. the problem you face in the UK is not that you’re being “nannied” its the breweries wanting to make more money.
they call beers like carling a “session” beer, meaning you can have a session on it therefore buying more so they’ve reduced the capacity for strong beers and intrduced the weaker crap like the new stella and becks vier nearly all at 4%.
here in Spain our “normal” beers like Mahou or Cruzcampo are about 5.4% and they are widely available whereas the weaker stuff is found in supermarkets for home consumption.
Stella Artois has been manufactured in the UK for as long as I can remember, it is brewed in Magor, south Wales.
You can still get the original 5.2% Stella here in the UK as well as the newer 4% version and the latest one is Stella Black, which looks exactly the same as normal Stella despite the name…
And of course the new stella “cidre”
They reckon that the nickname “wife beater” had destroyed the brand image they wanted to project. That’s why they brought out the 4% version.
The stella i was referring to was the stuff brewed in leuven beligie it used to be easy to spot in as it was the only stella with the gold top, then they started putting it in the same cans here, but the writing was of course in english not belgie and the acl content was 5% not 5.2% and both are totally different drinks, the english stuff is tbh shhhht!! but i have seen some with belgie witting on the cans and it was only5%,
and none of the off licenses now sell the 5.2% imported stella from several people who used to drink it all say that the 5% imported stella is shhht, so it could be a ploy by the company and it’s being brewed here and put in a tin with belgie writing on it, then more recently the other crap appeared @ only 4% which is a completely different product yet again
If the web sites such as this are upto date and are supplying the correct info
The stella from pidou is 5% Iknow that as I have 1 in my hand right now! 
tommy t:
The stella i was referring to was the stuff brewed in leuven beligie it used to be easy to spot in as it was the only stella with the gold top, then they started putting it in the same cans here, but the writing was of course in english not belgie and the acl content was 5% not 5.2% and both are totally different drinks, the english stuff is tbh shhhht!! but i have seen some with belgie witting on the cans and it was only5%,
and none of the off licenses now sell the 5.2% imported stella from several people who used to drink it all say that the 5% imported stella is shhht, so it could be a ploy by the company and it’s being brewed here and put in a tin with belgie writing on it, then more recently the other crap appeared @ only 4% which is a completely different product yet again
If the web sites such as this are upto date and are supplying the correct info
I was there on 05/06/11 and got the real Stella, got the last 2 trays they had in stock, much to the annoyance of my brother who had travelled with me! £11.90 a tray(24 500ml cans) awesome
Will have a look next week, just to satisfy my curiosity! does .2% really make that much difference?!!
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Will have a look next week, just to satisfy my curiosity! does .2% really make that much difference?!!
no , its not the acl content, but the taste that got changed with it, the Belgian brewed stuff canned or on draught was a nice drink , but the English or polish variant was not something inbev dismissed, obviously in the local water ,tossers!! as a result i wondered if it was still being sold over there,
You can get the imported Stella in bottles. You can spot them as the white label round the neck completely covers the top of the bottle.