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??!

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

No. It's really, really not

Apparently when supermarket loyalty cards took off in the 90s and they started analysing people's shopping habits, they found that people who bought Stella also bought nappies.

Yeah Stella used to be known as that here too, although not so much in recent years.

I would know but I don't like it. Wife beating isn't funny.

I'd have known it was Stella, yes. Haven't heard it called that in a while though.

The marketing men have apparently been working very hard over the past few years to put the brand's image into rehab but it doesn't work for me simply because there are other beers that cost the same and taste better.

By the same token, I once read in Viz comic that San Miguel is known as 'señorita beater'!

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

I think you're thinking of the advert for Stella Cidre (cider) which would be served over ice.

As to the OP's question, yes it was commonly called that in the 90s. Was also referred to in my local as "Nelson" (rhyming slang.)

I would know it but it's not a particularly strong lager to be honest. I have three different lagers in my cupboard - Stella, San Miguel and Kronenbourg. Stella is the weakest of those three at 4.2% with the others being over 5%+.

This year Stella is "The official beer of Wimbledon"!

Stella has long been known as wife beater.

There was another lager called something like Hurlimans which was known as hooligans for much the same reason.

Stella Artois, It's been known as 'Wife Beater' for a long time.

Yup. Stella. For the same reasons as others have posted.

Um. I like Stella. Just the one though. I AM a wife though. Not sure how that works.
Hate that term. Anyone using is a twat of the first order. Making fun of domestic violence.

Saying that, it's not referred to as that as much now, I haven't heard it be called that for years.

Yup I knew it was Stella but I would always class it as a pretty weak drink in terms of alchol cotent though

phosphorous are you teetotal?
I am and rather enjoy being all maiden aunt-y 'and what is a jäger bomb?'

Yup, it's Stella. Has a reputation for being a "wife beater" drink.

Yes I would know it was Stella. Only because years ago DH and I were at a wedding, and I was standing at the bar ordering us both a drink - a Stella for DH.

A woman I vaguely know leaned over and told me I shouldn't be ordering that for him - didn't I know it's called 'wife beater' for a reason

I was quite pissed so just laughed at her. Afterwards though I felt quite annoyed that I didn't say something clever and cutting...

Stella.

I would know what it means and very much enjoy a Stella or two, though it's yet to turn me into a violent lesbian.

Does anyone remember snakebite and black?

dh drank stell all the years i knew him .never heard the term for stella.
but.....found this

The term is slang for a sleeveless white T-shirt – the kind famously worn by Sylvester Stallone in Rocky and Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire.

An A formed white, tight, T-Shirt normally produced for men but also worn by women, intended for wear under shirts. Its reputation comes from those wearing the shirts while engaged in domestic violence
I think the TV show "COPS" had a lot do with the creation of this word. Every time they showed a guy getting arrested for beating his wife he was wearing one of those sleeveless undershirts.

www.funtrivia.com/askft/Question103968.html

also this

I know what it is and it's not strong, I like my beer but Stella tastes awful.

Never heard it called that. Didn't think Stella was a strong lager either.