If someone asked you for a pint if this, would you know what they meant?

[OverTheHammer]

"I'll have a pint of wife beater please"

And if you do know, why is it known as such??!

My English colleague went up to the bar here in Edinburgh and asked for a pint of Doy-chers.

The barmaid didn't bat an eye, I guess that's how half the punters on the Royal Mile pronounce Deuchars :)

People don't go out and drink a few pints of Prosecco though. Even if you really went for it and had 2 bottles of Prosecco, that's 'only' the same amount of alcohol as 5 or 6 pints of 5% beer and some will drink more than that.

But people in Belgium don't generally drink their beer in pints either, especially the stronger ones, where they have a half or a third of a pint.

A pint of Stella! I've heard the term from my younger days about 18 yrs ago

Yes it's Stella, so called because it was 5% abv, when most lagers and ales were 4% or less. It was a couple of police officers who first introduced me to the term.

No, I wouldn't know, never heard that phrase.

Yes Stella. We also called it fight juice.

Why are those vest tops also called wifebeaters? Do abusive husbands wear them while drinking Stella?

Oops cross posts.

I think they may have made it weaker. But that sort of behaviour wasn't limited to the Stella drinkers. Just any functioning alcoholic with a violent streak.

We had to have door staff at the pub when think football games were on as the fighting was awful.

I think the vest is an American term and Stella Artois is the UK term.

Stella.

It was called that 25 years ago, as it was associated with excessive drinking and violence. A lovely expression coined from a certain type of bloke who used to drink pints and pints of it and go home and knock their missus about

I believe it's not as strong now as it was in the 90s but I could be mistaken.

I wonder why Stella has gained that reputation in way that other strong lagers like Carlsberg Export or Kronenburg hasn't?

I thought Stella was quite a civilised drink?

In fancy glasses, with ice?

Aren't most lagers and beers about 5%ABV?

So nothing compared to 12.5% wine, which I drong pretty often.

Yep, horrible

Have you been dronging this morning Phosphorus?

Phos I don't think anyone has lager with ice? Some ciders but I have never seen anyone have Stella with ice.

Never heard Stella referred to as that, and I'm a 43-year old bloke. Don't drink it, mind.

Sorry Moose23 but that really made me laugh!

Well I didn't know Stella was also known as wife beater (I didn't know about the vest tops either!) and told DS off for saying it earlier. He seemed shocked that I didn't know what it was! He's 18.

I though Stella was quite a "posh" lager considering it's usually more expensive.

I thought Stella was quite a civilised drink

I think the advertising over the last few years has tried (with some success) to change the perception. I knew it as wife beater 25 years ago.

Because of tax thresholds on 5%+ beers, they've lowered wife beater & senorita beater (San Mig) to 4.9%. Both phrases were popular in the mid 90's but, sound very dated & not at all nice

I hadn't heard that expression before but guessed it was Stella Artois as it used to be called fighting lager around here 20+ years ago...

Oops! No fringing or drinking.

I did think that lager was poured over ice though. Is it not?

I thought I'd seen it in an advert.

It made my husband and I laugh too Overthehammer!! I didn't even think about the implications of the word.

Crazedzombie, I think the shirt is American but it's just a term that people used to use in Australia, where I lived. And women and men wear them a lot because it's always hot and for some reason it's called a wifebeater. Probably due to the original wearers of it being nasty men, but I never thought about the connotation!

Look at Hogarth's Gin Lane. These days 'Mothers Ruin' is seen as a fancy drink.

Is the American Term "Wife Beater" regarding the white tank tops - are they named because of a stereotype of men who beat their wives wear that sort of clothing?

Yep. Stella.
And Newcastle Brown Ale was always known as a bottle of dog.