Stella Artois Alcohol Free

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 🎉🎉🎉 Robs AF Brews Reviews 🎉🎉🎉


What: Stella Artois Alcohol Free
Where: Ocado
£££'s: £3.50 / 4 x 330ml bottles
Score: 🌟🌟🌟🌟

Is it 'ah' or is it 'Artois'? - That is the tagline that sticks in my mind when I think about Stella, along with a rather unsavoury nickname which the high-end advertising campaign is desperately trying to rid the brand of.

No matter how many artistic TV adverts & associations with clean-cut tennis competitions (Wimbledon no less) Stella is always going to have a dodgy reputation in the UK for being a bit of a bar brawl inducing beverage. This is probably, in part due to the high ABV of 5.2% this beer used to carry. This has now been reduced to 4.8%

No such problems here with the AF version. If AB In-Bev (the parent company) really wanted to clean up its reputation, then maybe they should concentrate more on promoting this AF variant which is made for people who want a beer for beers sake & aren't looking for a punch-up afterwards.

The packaging is very definitely Stella, with a strong, dark blue band across the bottom portion of the labels to denote its 0.0% credentials. In the glass a clear, pale golden liquid with quite high carbonation to produce a nice head, but as always this quickly goes.

I find the taste very agreeable. A slight maltiness, not too sweet as is often the case with AF beers. It uses the same variety of Saaz hops as the regular version which helps give some bitterness & a familiar 'Stella' flavour. If I'm honest I think that NOT having the alcohol in it gives this variant a slightly BETTER taste.

Would I buy it again? Most definitely. I liked this a lot as a crisp, refreshing AF lager.



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