Stella Artois

Brewed by InBev Belgium
Style: Pale Lager
Leuven, Belgium

Serve in Dimpled mug, English pint, Lager glass, Shaker

From the tap at Bettis’ Grill in Pittsburgh. Note of correction: This beer was listed in the Pilsner category on the menu at Bettis’ Grill. Crisp, clean, no detection of the so-alled skunkiness rumored from other tasters. Lacks any uniqueness of the Belgian family. Probably on par with a Belgian Budweiser or a German St. Pauli Girl.

As I live in the city of origin, I try very hard to judge this beer objectively. Many people in Leuven would gave a bartender funny looks if they didn’t get a Stella server when ordering a beer. That being said Stella has a different taste all around the world, and I’ve tasted many variations which, surprise!, vary A LOT. Stella Artois serverd in Belgium tastes better on draft, has an acidic touch and no aftertaste. Also bottled it comes in a brown bottle around here. A green bottle means it’s an exported version and therefore not the original ’formula’.

pours yellow colour thin head aroma of straw and flavour is a little skunky but nothing different then all the there pale lagers

It may have a bit more taste to it than most lagers, perhaps a somewhat beerfy taste in fact, however the hangover affects are pretty terrible and I suggest avoiding this one.

Belgian lager with a weird soap-like foam and a slightly harsh hop aroma. taste is most of all German lagers in the more lightly hopped end of the scale. Fine lager if you can handle it a little sharp and piercing hop flavor on your tongue.

When 2pac said "i dont mind it. got a gay fucken name but." he expressed both a mild satisfaction with the beer and a general distaste for the name of the beer, notably his rating ends mid sentence leaving his outright conclusion of the beer to be determined by the reader leaving only his numerical rating as a indicator of his general assessment of the beer.

The beer pours a very pale yellow color with a huge tight white head.

The aroma is initaly the skunkiest thing I have ever smelled other than a skunk, this is the sort of beer Loudon Wainwright III would be compelled to write a song about. Leaving it for a minute results in less skunk and more odd lightly moldy malt and mild spiciness. Geeze this doesn’t smell nice on any accord.

The flavor is clean, fairly sweet and malty with some mild grassy hops. The beer is lightly spicy and I kind of like the crisp malt character.

10 YEARS OF 2PAC "i dont mind it. got a gay fucken name but. " It does have a fucken gay name, 2pac. And I’m with you as well when you say that I don’t mind it. It’s a very basic pale lager, but nicely executed. Loved the world over.

highly carbonated, with a strong white head, good strength, and a decent flavour. refreshing, and up there with the better lagers (and a nicer drink from the bottle in my opinion).