Bottom upwards, depends whats on the pumps. But my days of drinking tasteless gas are pretty much over unless gasping and there is literally no other option
Just as a side issue what makes a lager "premium"? To my mind Stella is as bad, if not worse than Carling.
Their advertising for it always made me smile, showing the rolling hills of Galway and images designed to suggest its deeply rural Celtic heritage....the bloody p**s was produced by Bass Belfast in Andersonstown.... images of bombed out buildings and paramilitary murals would have been far more accurate.
Making a home brew porters at the minute and on first taste I seem to have made a right big dogs **** of it.
If it's over 5% it's classed as "premium", and it tends to be pricier. I'm not making any comment about the quality here!
My mate who has a micro brewery sells at £2.20-£2.50 for half a litre, and says his profit margin is around 10%. Obviously he doesn't have the advantage of economies of scale, but his main expense is imported hops.
So it's the alcohol quantity that defines it. I never knew that. Definitely nowt premium about the taste of Stella!