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??!

Yeah, it's Stella.

Funny, me and my OH went to Werchter festival in Belgium a few years back - it's a music festival close to Leuven where Stella is brewed and when we were there the festival bar served Stella and kriek and that was it. And yet, somehow, people managed to drink it all day and not get in any trouble. Go figure.

my first dh was allergic to wine /champagne
made him aggressive
never hurt anyone just wasnt himself.
asked a doc.said its a common allergy and reaction.
otherwise he was a really funny happy drunk.
he avoided it after learning what it did.

I'm sure I remember (about 10-15 years ago?) stories in the news about pubs refusing to serve Stella because landlords found it seemed to turn drinkers aggressive and violent in a way that other beers didn't.

My then BF used to drink it during the summer (in the winter it was Boddingtons) and when he went over the 6 pints mark (so every Friday and Saturday) on Stella he would invariably wet the bed in his sleep.

Once I pointed this out he switched his allegiance to Fosters and the bed wetting became much more infrequent.

Can't believe I spent 7 years with him :(

Early 90's when I worked in a pub there were 2 lagers on tap. Castlemaine 4x which was about 3.7% abv at the time and Stella which was 5% abv.
The difference in strength between them appears only small, but if someone was not used to drinking 'premium strength' lager, this would have the effect of making them drunker far more quickly. The knock on effect of this was often violent behaviour.
It was always known as 'wife-beater' back then.

Stella used to be 5.2% now its 4.8%

But I also think they changed the chemical content at the same time, there was definitely something in it back then.

A pub in Cambridge had a £1 a pint offer on on Stella one Saturday back then, it was total carnage.

Well, I knew.

But then again, given my user name, I would, wouldn't I?

I've never heard anyone actually order it, but I know what it is.

Aka Stella act-a-twat

Two lovely, totally not misogynistic, names.

Stella used to be 5.2 abv, it is now 4.9 abv. It was reduced as a cost cutting measure by InBev. Still tastes wank though. 'Premium strength' beers of 5% were 20 odd years ago relatively new in British pubs and mass produced lager was typically brewed at 3.4 to 4% to march the strength of bitter that had dominated the British market before hand and the British tendency towards binge drinking. So anyone drinking a 5% beer at the same rate as the 3.4% stuff they'd drunk previously their violent mysogonistic tendencies would come to the surface faster than anticipated.

I think it's reputation for disorder and violence comes from the fact that InBev dominate the brewing market in the UK. it is the most widely sold stronger 'premium' beer sold alongside weak fizzy pisswater like Fosters which InBev also produces (basically a training drink for kids). I don't think there's anything in the way Stella is made in a way that makes a drinker more prone to violence.

I regularly drink Belgian beers that can be anything up to 12%abv, but then I'm not a violent wanker and I'm not drinking 10 pints of the stuff.

Very interesting history behind the origins of the nickname.

I previously assumed it was because Stella was a female name and the beer was reasonably priced so often drunk by wife beaters.

Stella and I really
Like this beer

I thought it was called wife beater because it's the name of the wife in 'Streetcar named desire' who gets beaten up and was called Stella..

I grew up in pubs. It's Stella Artois. So called because it's strong and we all know that men always commit DV when pissed

Bambam snakebite and black is called 'Diesel' here - because it looks like red diesel.

I would know what it was, yes.

i've never heard anyone use the term that i recall but i definitely do know it would be referring to Stella, not sure where i've picked that up. odd.

Buckfast genuinely is loopy juice. It is that winning combination of affordability, sugar, caffeine and alcohol that makes it a firm favourite of young bams across the west of Scotland. The alcohol lowers inhibitions, whilst the sugar and caffeine gives an energy rush.

Colloqually it is known as 'Wreck the hoose juice' or 'commotion lotion'

I only made the connection between the "Bucky" plague and those nice monks on Dartmoor last week. I was

Never heard it called that, but I never drink the stuff, give me a Sarah Hughes ruby any day

Definitely Stella.

Stella

Diesel - snakebite and black
Black velvet - Guinness and Cider
Mickey Mouse - half lager, half bitter

Bleurgh

Stella.

Stella

Stella :)

Guinness and cider?

I would know what it referred to yes. Worked in a bar during my student days, but don't think I've heard it called that since then, so 15+ years. At the time it was stronger than similar priced lagers (less strong now) and associated with aggressive types drinking too much.