7 ms·
I can't believe this simple, kind of stupid thing I did has gotten so much attention. I also can't believe so many people hate Stella. It's not the greatest bee
by cmb320 15y ago
I can't believe this simple, kind of stupid thing I did has gotten so much attention. I also can't believe so many people hate Stella. It's not the greatest beer I've ever had, but it's no bud light.
- mcrider 15y agoEuropeans think its sewer water, and you have to wear (or be) a wife beater to drink it. North American's think its gold -- At least here in Vancouver, its usually the most expensive thing at the bar and people only buy it if they're really treating themselves. I think it tastes fine (not great, but definitely not bad).
- eru 15y agoI never had it. But I wonder why someone would want a filtered beer, when there's extra-cloudy stuff available.
- redthrowaway 15y agoWhen you say "extra-cloudy", I picture Hefeweizen, and I think that answers your question quite nicely.
- eru 15y agoI've only seen the clouds in Hefeweizen. But you can leave the yeast in in any beer.
- run4yourlives 15y agoI'm in Vancouver too... Stella is the beer that people who drank Corona when they were 19 drink when they are 25. In other words, it isn't beer. (Especially here in Vancouver where there are so many outstanding small breweries that everyone should recognize good beer)
- masklinn 15y ago> Europeans think its sewer water That's not completely true, that would be the 1667 ("the kro") and other similar french non-beers. Stella is simply the base beer in Flanders (the base beer in Wallonia being Jupiler). Not good by any means, but still drinkable.
- leif 15y agoprobably is bud light now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anheuser-Busch_InBev http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anheuser-Busch_InBev
- blhack 15y agoIt's nice to remember that real people are there behind the apps.
- xelfer 15y agoHave your sales increased due to it?
- darklajid 15y agoI loved your reaction. But this isn't about your attitude, this is about far more serious things: Beer. Leaving Germany for good end of this month and - well.. Israel's beers are f...ing (well, it's kind of on topic with your app, isn't it?) baaad. So my choice in the future, after being spoiled in a country of beer drinkers, is * Local brand starts with G (Ugh...) * Local brand starts with M (Really. Life's too short to drink that) * Weihenstephan (which seems to be from Germany, but the fact that I never heard about it here gives away how decent it is. Seems like an export-only product) * Stella So - rest assured: You're not alone. If you remove all the better alternatives, Stella is really okay. Kind of.
- nagrom 15y agoYou can get Weihanstephaner in Germany. You shouldn't, but you can.
- guygurari 15y agoThe 'G' and the 'M' are undrinkable, but we also have Leffe and Guinness which I find pretty good. If you want more quality choices in Israel you should consider switching to wine...
- ra 15y agoOr learn how to homebrew.
- Ras_ 15y ago
- rudiger 15y agoCare to do an analysis of the impact to your app's sales when this is all over?
- cmb320 15y agosure. i'll probably post something about it tomorrow on twitter. @funkmastabaker
- hammock 15y agoStella is the beer which snobs love to hate- because it's marketed different in America than Europe. (Note to self- don't ever let your brand fall into that trap) There are few topics as polarizing and annoyingly superficial as which beer is "piss-water" and which beer is "good beer."
- darklajid 15y agoMoving into off-topic waters here (Edit: Erm, wrote it and it got quite long. Thought about scrapping it, but it might be either amusing or annoying to read. You judge): I guess I can give a very nice example for these kind of things.. I currently live in Cologne [1] (~1.000.000 people, west Germany) ~40km away from Dusseldorf [2] (~600.000 people, but capital of the state). These cities are the prime examples for rivalry between cities all over Germany. Both are cities that heavily rely on tourism, both are very much into carnival (one of the topics that are discussed to death) and both are _the_ place to be for (different types of..) beer. Here you get 0.2l (i.e. tiny) glasses of rather light beer, brewed in a way that is even (as far as I know a first!) a protected regional trademark akin to Champagne. You can create it somewhere else, but you cannot use the name (a derivation of the name of the city, Koelsch [3, contains a reference to the rivalry as well]). Dusseldorf is famous for (larger glasses, 0,3l or 0,5l) stronger (in taste), sweeter and dark beers. Not protected by law, but they are more or less _the_ city for these types of beer. This leads to a lot of (mostly friendly) discussions like the one you used. In fact, since the local beer here is very light and served in these tiny glasses, ~most~ of Germany compares the 14 different brands of beer here to a kind of 'diluted water'. It always amuses me (moved here, so I'm kind of an outsider) to see these kinds of discussions and I think like to be reminded (thank you!) that this is a global phenomenon.. 1: http://maps.google.de/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=de&geocode=&q=Cologne&sll=51.151786,10.415039&sspn=22.587001,44.736328&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=K%C3%B6ln,+Nordrhein-Westfalen&z=11 http://maps.google.de/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=de&... 2: http://maps.google.de/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=de&geocode=&q=Dusseldorf&aq=&sll=50.940664,6.959912&sspn=0.353492,0.699005&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=D%C3%BCsseldorf,+Nordrhein-Westfalen&ll=51.224948,6.775818&spn=0.351326,0.699005&z=11 http://maps.google.de/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=de&... 3: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/K%C3%B6lsch_%28beer%29 https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/K%C3%B6lsch_%...
- kprobst 15y agoI've always thought Stella was the beer hipsters drink now that everyone knows about Pabst.
- SeoxyS 15y agoStella is a cheaper and more readily available version of Heineken, to me.
- mattmanser 15y agoStella's evil, nick-named wife-beater over here in the UK. It's stronger than Heineken and seems to make people aggressive compared to Kronenberg for example. I won't drink it now after an incident one night where I managed to insult every person in a group of friends. Evil hangovers too from what I remember.
- bodski 15y agoStella in the UK is basically the same as Carling's 'chemical' lager, it shouldn't be surprising that the hangovers are so bad. Most lagers on sale in the UK (outside of city 'mini-marts') are brewed in the UK and all seem to taste the same (terrible) and give me hangovers before I have even stopped drinking. We have no beer purity laws like there are in places like Germany either, sold out brands that are brewed in the UK like Carlsberg / Stella / Kronenburg etc are nothing like their native counterparts. The difference when drinking duty free (real) Stella is like night and day (but it does go flat very quickly). The EU just wouldn't put up with such terrible lager, us Brits seem to lap it up though. Another one is Fosters, we seem to love it, apparently Fosters is Australian for 'horse piss'. In Belgian off-licences, even the 'real' Stella is relegated to the bargain bin alongside Juliper. They 'reassuringly expensive' advertising campaign is a total sham. Imported Heineken, Becks, Budvar (the original Budweiser brand from Czech) etc. seem to be the only decent lagers you can still find in the shops here, rip off prices though.
- spjwebster 15y agoSince we're on the subject of alcoholic beverages that taste better than your average beer, I'm honour-bound by my West Country upbringing to suggest some decent quality cider. I'm talking about Henney's Frome Valley, Weston's Organic, or (if still and cloudy cider is your thing) Addlestones. This is, of course, unless you can get hold of some proper West Country homemade scrumpy. Cheers!
- benihana 15y agoWow, I just watched the fucking promotional video for your app. I laughed my ass off. If I wasn't so fucking lazy, I'd buy it on principle.