Wife beater gets diluted shocker.....

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Wife beater gets diluted shocker.....

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My Stella seems to have lost 0.2% of it's 5.2% abv of late and it seems to have crept in with the unexpected arrival of a new design on the cans.

Even the bottled variety has shrunk to 5.0% :frown:

What's going on? I can actually detect the difference (such is my experience) and I'm not happy :(

Well I'm fighting back and drinking more of the 5% piss version to make up for the loss 8)

Anyone else (I'm thinking of mjb right now) noticed any strange abv trouble with this or other beverages? :?
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I'll take a look when I'm down morissons!
I've got to restock on the old speckled hen, £8 for 10 cans at the moment! :D :D :D
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Oh bugger, a bit of googling says it's a new theme amongst beers.....

http://pubcurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2008/ ... -down.html
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The Pub Curmudgeon wrote:A number of mass-market ciders have also had their strength reduced, as has the draught version of Old Speckled Hen.
The bastards! :evil:
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Ha ha ha ha ha ha Teamy - I thought of you when I first saw that :lol:

Bastards :x what are we going to do? we're being short changed here.

Someone rightfully posted a comment saying "will Stella be reducing the cost now they've reduced the alcohol?" - a good point eh?

Christmas just won't be the same this year :(

heck, who am I kidding? Christmas? more like Mon,Tues,Weds......
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I'm sick of being told what's good or bad for me :evil:
Makes you wonder how on earth the human race survived before these so called "experts" came along :roll:
I had a smile at this site :lol:
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See, that tells it all! mjb can only cry - words have no use here.

Just remember where you heard it first 8)

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does anyone remember cafferys
used to be painfully strong and induce the worlds worst hangovers the following morning
then in order to spare us the hangover they dropped the strength
loved the drink (i'm tee-total now) up untill they dropped the strength then it was never the same
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Should I start shipping the plumb brandy over? :cheesy:
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We only get the bottles of Stella here - It's both imported and brewed locally depending on where you get it from...

Will check it next time i'm at the bottle shop :evil:
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