When did UK brewed Stella become an adjunct?

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  1. JonnoWillsteed

    JonnoWillsteed Pooh-Bah (2,846) Apr 12, 2013 England
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    Yes I know it's swill, that aside, but I hadn't realised it had stooped as low as using adjunct. I have a box of ten cans and was surprised to see the ingredients listed:

    'Water, Barley Malt, Maize, hops'
    Brewed in the UK, AB INBEV UK Ltd.


    How long have they been getting away with that?
    ps. I know UK Stella has long been far sub-standard vs the Belgian version, even 15 years ago, as evidenced by buying cheap Belgian grey-import BE-Stella in back-street offies which was so much better. But now the UK version it seems to have cranked down yet another notch further.
     
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  2. EmperorBevis

    EmperorBevis Grand High Pooh-Bah (9,338) Sep 25, 2011 England
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    It’s in the unfiltered as well
     
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  3. jesskidden

    jesskidden Grand Pooh-Bah (3,145) Aug 10, 2005 New Jersey
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    Well, UK beer writer Pete Brown noted in 2008 that:
    And here's a 2012 BA thread on the topic - When did they put corn in Stella Artois?

    Stella Artois didn't have much of presence in the US until the late 1990s or so, and up until a few years ago, the SA exported to the US was Belgian-brewed. In recent years, AB-InBev has been brewing Stella Artois in their US Anheuser-Busch breweries. According to AB's US version of their Tap into Our Beer website, it is all-malt.:grin:
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  4. Motorhate

    Motorhate Initiate (152) May 23, 2022 England
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    I think they rely a lot on the green bottles giving it a skunky flavour too. It's a trick a lot of the macros use.
     
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  5. Crusader

    Crusader Pooh-Bah (1,725) Feb 4, 2011 Sweden
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    Came across this label from the German version of Tap Into Your beer just now:

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    No sign of corn in any of the languages. So apparently it is currently being brewed to be all-malt in Europe as well as in America, which was news to me. Interesting. I went there looking for a picture of a Corona Extra label after reading that it was going to be brewed in Germany at the Hasseröder brewery and came across the label below of Corona Extra showing it being brewed in Belgium, the label listing corn as an adjunct:

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