Stella Artios

[homebrewer79]

The BWS near me has the fully imported Stella for $40/case..

And there's people paying that for VB, some people have no idea do they

[SAMA]

Mates from england claim its "poor mans piss" over there lol

[Biernut]

Damn BWS look after you guys in Sydney, and send all their rubbish down here in Tassie

[Biernut]

hey! hey! Going past BWS today, heaps of cartons of Stella on show at 50 dollars. Took a close look and yep it was fully imported from Belgium. CUB just might have got the boot. Maybe the Stella drinkers yelled long and loud enough for them to hear it back in Leuven Belgium.

Woohoo.

[Kevnlis]

I made this post earlier but i will do it again.

When I looked at the Stella at Dan Murphys last night it was all imported, not BUL.

[PaulSteele]

several distributors are meeting the demand for imported Stella and importing it themselves, while some aren't.

so the availability of imported Stella in your local area depends on who your bottleshop manager deals with and how much he/she cares about having real imported beer.

[Biernut]

Well you can't fool a true Stella man, God bless em.

[Iron-Haggis]

Stella directly from Fosters is still BUL, so they haven't been given the boot. Paul Steele is right about distributors. Take Heineken for example. If a bottlo ordered Heineken from Lion Nathan it would be BUL, but there are distributors of fully imported Heineken.

[tazman67]

I got 8 stubbies from a BWS down here....the 6 pack WAS the Real deal...the two loose ones were BUL...by the lovely people at Fosters..
Did a side by side look n taste...yes..you can see n taste the difference...just my thoughts..

[homebrewer79]

You sure can taste the diff, I had one (imported) last weekend at the Deep Park Hotel, I has flavour not like the crap I paid twice as much for a few weeks back.

[Iron-Haggis]

I honstely think that shows how much water makes a difference to a beer. Australians water is defientely better suited to ales, thats why Coopers are so good and why Aussie stouts are always so tasty. Meanwhile Euro lagers that are BUL don't quite taste the same.

[shane_vor]

Imagine my surprise when, deciding to treat oneself, took a carton home only to find, printed in small print on the underside of the carton, THAT IT WAS BREWED IN MELBOURNE! (or some such place, I'm too angry even now to remember). Filthy bastards charged me premium imported beer price for rubbish brewed in a factory here! Rant over.

[PaulSteele]

at the bottle shop where i work, i tell everybody that buys a case "you know this isn't an imported beer, right?"

[Iron-Haggis]

I don't tell people that it isn't imported, as some people know that is already. But if people ask me questions than I'll tell them that it is BUL. The reason that you still pay imported prices for BUL products is that the companies claim that they use the money they save from the BUL to invest in promoting the products.

[Snowdog]

The local Pineapple Cellers had Stella 6-packs on the floor that were shrink-wrapped that were imported, but the 6-packs in the chiller were in cardboard holders, and were not imported.

[tazman67]

BWS down here in Tassie has the IMPORTED Stella for $45 a carton...I checked out the small print on the carton. got myself one...Nice to be enjoying the "real deal" again.I hope your local BWS has the same...

[Biernut]

Good on yer Taz you are a man after me own heart. Same deal at Kingston BWS. Trying to find a Stella clone recipe no luck so far.

[tazman67]

I have a AG Stella clone recipe....interested ???

[Tipsy]

Yes

[tazman67]

ok...ill post it under Stella recipes topic