Are You Ready For Love
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The last but one time that I visited my former local pub another regular there tried to start an argument or worse with me . I stayed very calm  .
I got the blame though I'd said or done nothing unreasonable to anyone , and the landlord tried to excuse the other blokes unprovoked antagonism by saying he thought there's something in Stella Artois (which my provocateur was inebriated on) that tends to make its imbibers  agressive . In that case why have it there .
A Belgian lady in the same pub once remarked to me that in her opinion it's the least pleasant tasting of all belgian beers .
There certainly seems to be something in it that gives me headaches even if I 'water it down' with weaker lagers .
Stella Artois used to be advertised in the UK  as a quality 'reassuringly expensive' drink , though in recent years it seems to have become the favoured 'lad and ladette' drink .
At 5.2% it's stronger than average , though as I've said before I think that if someone wants to disinhibit their agressiveness then enough of any alcoholic drink will do the job , and , once when I was on holiday  I was , in the evenings  , drinking 6.2% Lowenbrau which never made me confrontational .
I do'nt think I still have it but there was an article in the 'Mail a few days ago saying that 'Stella' is nicknamed 'wife beater' ,  which gave anecdotal evidence of  it apparently being to blame for much rowdy and violent behaviour , and of pubs having substituted it for other continental beers reportedly having become much calmer environments .