Myth, that many people now swear happens to them

It was called wife beater mainly cos it was fairly strong, till many other beers pulled up to the same alcohol % level, and because it was drunk often in large ammounts. The wife beater part was the drunk, not the beer

Oddly tho, it's the only beer that makes me feel shitty the next day. I;m blessed I never get hangovers from beer (wine is a different story!) no matter how much I drink. But Stella, wether it was one bottle or 10 I always felt shitty the next day - like I had eaten something dodgy - sick stomach feeling and nasty guts.... Fosters, Grolsch, Kroenenberg (which I don't drink as I don't like it's taste), Carling, Carlsberg, XXXX, Bud (fucking rank!) - none of these make me feel like Stella does the next day. So I stopped drinkin it a couple years ago......