`` Stella Artois has been nicknamed `` '' Wife Beater '' '' in the United Kingdom due to a perceived connection with aggression and binge drinking , although this link may have originally originated from the play A Streetcar Named Desire , where a character named Stella suffers domestic abuse at the hands of her drunken husband . ''
Stella Artois could have gotten the nickname of `` Wife Beater '' because of the character Stella in the play A Streetcar Named Desire , who was abused by her drunken husband .