Anyone who likes Stella?

gibbocore · Post by **gibbocore** » Wednesday Jul 25, 2007 9:49 am

They have cartons of it at wollies liqour for $39.

Pretty good price.

I also understand it's not as cheap as a lot of peoples stella clones.

Kevnlis · Post by **Kevnlis** » Wednesday Jul 25, 2007 9:55 am

That is not even close to as cheap as the clone. But a damn good price for the commercial fair dinkem drop

Usually runs $18.99 for a sixer!

Heals · Post by **Heals** » Wednesday Jul 25, 2007 1:49 pm

Which woolworths liquor are you refering to?

I just called the one near me (tweed heads) and they're $62 a carton!

gibbocore · Post by **gibbocore** » Wednesday Jul 25, 2007 2:11 pm

sorry guy's, this was at caringbah.

it is also that proce at liquour stacks in the 4 sydney locations

Chris · Post by **Chris** » Thursday Jul 26, 2007 2:13 pm

I'd buy it if it was still Belgian!

MOFO · Post by **MOFO** » Thursday Jul 26, 2007 2:24 pm

Agree! Stella & Heineken are awful when produced in Australia....

I can spot the imitations from a mile off - Heineken bottles look squater if done in Holland, so I know not to go near the ones with the long necks to them! I really can't handle the aussie one. I have a soft spot for the dutch one.

Becks - well, I love a Becks... funnily enough, I like the German one, but the best Becks I have had to date I bought recently at my local bottle shop and it was made in Turkey... it tasted unreal... best Becks yet.

Thank goodness for parallel importing. Most of your small cafe and restaurants get better deals parallel importing and getting cases of genuine Corona and Heineken for about $19 a case (as long as they buy a pallet) whereas the local stuff is more like $10 more... for an inferior brew. Better still - they get the kudos and snob factor for stocking it!

Rant over

(edit: I can't believe I put a possessive apostrophe in Becks)

Chris · Post by **Chris** » Thursday Jul 26, 2007 2:35 pm

I like the dark Heineken! That stuff isn't bad when in NL!

And Turkish Becks! I never really liked the German one, but I'd try Turkish!

Pyssedas Heavy Industrial · Friday Jul 27, 2007 12:03 pm

For those interested in matters Stella there has been something of an incident in Canada around Stella - Pyssedas has written to the brewery with some helpful suggestions...

http://www.pyssedas.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=218

nt · Post by nt » Friday Jul 27, 2007 6:10 pm

Stella used to cost $70 a case but in the past 6 months (or longer), they sell it for $40 in Danmurphy as normal price.

banger · Post by **banger** » Sunday Jul 29, 2007 9:00 pm

Anyone have any idea where you can buy a slab of Belgian Stella rather than the one produced out of the same brewery that does VB?

lethaldog · Post by **lethaldog** » Sunday Jul 29, 2007 9:12 pm

nt wrote:Stella used to cost $70 a case but in the past 6 months (or longer), they sell it for $40 in Danmurphy as normal price.

Thats cos it used to be imported, the price goes down when its made here for obvious reasons but then so does the quality

Pale_Ale · Post by **Pale_Ale** » Monday Jul 30, 2007 9:25 pm

banger wrote:Anyone have any idea where you can buy a slab of Belgian Stella rather than the one produced out of the same brewery that does VB?

Try and find some different sized cans. Normally the odd size bottles or cans are the imports.

Case in point: Heineken - you can get the real stuff if you buy the mini-keg or the 500ml cans.

Iron-Haggis · Post by **Iron-Haggis** » Tuesday Jul 31, 2007 10:18 pm

Minikegs are top stuff for the Heineken. Got me a couple when they were on special for $20 at Liquorland.

On the "imported" beer note Fosters has taken control of Carlsberg and affiliated beers in Australia.