Stella is the beer of Belgium, and since my mom was adopted by Belgian immigrants and lived in Belgium for a little while, and since Belgium is the only country outside North America that I've spent any time in, I know Stella. Here in Canada Stella is quite popular, and you can get it at most places. You can also go to the liquor mart and buy it in cans, bottles, or keg form. I don't find Stella to be all that foreign tasting, but then I've had beers imported from France where there's a thick sediment on the bottom and the beer itself has in interesting, deep, smoky flavour. I had a special relationship with a thick, pungent beer of such a description, but I can't for the life of me remember what it was called. It was from France and had a label with an animal on it - either a bull or a dog if anyone can help me. We had a fourth act club in a play I was in, where the entire cast, except for 3 people, did not appear in the fourth (and final act) of the play, so we would sit in the boys' dressing room and consume as much alcohol as possible, then stumble out drunk for our bows. Good times. And someone had given the cast a case of this beer as a gift, and no one else liked it, and so I enjoyed and imbibed.