Stella Artois

Brewed by InBev Belgium
Style: Pale Lager
Leuven, Belgium

This is what I use as my bar to compare other beers (better than Stella is a decent/good beer. Worse than Stella is a disappointing beer). By all means a standard euro-lager. Good carbonation, thin body, and a touch of sulfur. Prominent steel flavour. Overall it’s refreshing and adequate when there’s nothing else on offer... even if it doesn’t live up to its ’Belgian’ reputation (at least when consumed outside of Belgium).

Bottle. Poured pale yellow with a thick white head. Aroma had notes of sweet malts and some grain and cereal. Flavor was sweet with a somewhat unpleasant metallic taste.

This is the beer you drink when there is only macro brewed American swill lagers. In the same mold as Pilsener Urquell, just not as tasty. Bready and yeasty in flavor, this rare Belgium lager is soft and mild. I could drink these all day long, but then again, why the hell would I? I guess even in Belgium, there are "men" who are afraid of flavor. Not a bad beer, but not a top notch one either.

Poured from a can into a tulip. Dense and durable white head. Smells really delicate, floral, over a malty base. Easy to drink, very refreshing. A good pale lager, but not different from so many others.

Pale yellow color with small head. Slim aroma of malt, light body, soft in mouth.Industrial beer, still drinkable.

Yellow in color. White head when poured. Mild aroma and taste. Malt balanced by some bitterness. Solid pale lager.

Yellow with white head. Mild aroma of floral/grassy hops. Decent malt balanced by some bitterness. Solid pale lager. Nothing exciting, but quite drinkable.

Tap. Not bad for a pale lager. Aroma is light, with floral notes. Flavour is bitter, and it has good length. Thin body, and oily in the palate. Yellow colour, with a fizzy head that disappears.