Stella Artois® is the most popular Belgian beer in the world and a flagship international brand of SUN Interbrew. This is a classic European bottom-fermented pilsner beer positioned in the premium segment. Stella Artois® originated in the Belgian town of Leuven.
Stella Artois® has an exquisite slightly bitter taste that distinguishes this beer from other traditional European beer brands. True connoisseurs value very high this peculiarity of Stella Artois®.
Stella Artois® combines in itself noble traditions and the highest quality. It is a symbol of European style and finesse, an elite drink for people of high social status with refined taste.
Stella Artois® is brewed from the highest quality ingredients:
- spring water rectified from excessive calcium and iron;
- top European barley;
- vitamin A enriched bitter hops that give beer the unique taste;
- Stella Artois® branded yeast race.
Stella Artois® brewers use not only special techniques that are passed from generation to generation, but also apply cutting edge technologies that uphold the highest quality standards. For example, the filtration technology currently in use is jointly patented by InBev and Leuven University.
Stella Artois’s gravity is 12%, alcohol content — 5.2%. It is a pasteurized beer with shelflife of 180 days. Stella Artois® is bottled into 0.33l and 0.5 l glass bottles, 0.5 l aluminum bottles and 30 l kegs.
We recommend drinking Stella Artois® chilled to 3°C.
Stella Artois® is produced in various countries, including Russia and Ukraine.
History
Roots of the brand are traced back to the town of Leuven on the border of Flanders and Wallonia. 1366 is the earliest note of «Den Horen» brewery where from Stella Artois® originates. This year is considered the birth date of the brand.
In 1708, Sebastian Artois received the title of a brewmaster . In 1717, he bought «Den Horen» and gave it his own name — «Artois Brewery». Sebastian’s descendants continued his work successfully.
Pride of Belgium truly sparkled around Christmas of 1926. Artois experts made a special brew for the holiday. It was a clear beverage, as bright as a star («stella» is Latin for «star»). That is how Stella Artois® received its name.
The old building of «Artois Brewery» is a national monument at the present time.