How many calories are in a Stella Artois?
A 12 fl oz bottle of Stella Artois carries 155 calories. Per 100 g the beer runs 43 calories, the standard USDA figure for a regular 5% lager. A bottle holds 12.8 g of carbohydrate; the rest of the calories come from the alcohol itself, which never appears as a macro on a label.
You'd need to walk about 31 minutes to burn the 155 calories in one 12 fl oz bottle (360 g).
How long does it take to burn off Stella Artois?
One 12 fl oz bottle (360 g) is 155 kcal. Enter your weight and the amount you ate to see how long it takes you to burn that off:
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| Activity | Time to burn 155 kcal |
|---|---|
| Walking, brisk | 31 min |
| Cycling, moderate | 19 min |
| Swimming, moderate | 22 min |
| Jogging | 18 min |
| Weight training, moderate | 34 min |
Times are for a 155 lb adult at a steady pace; change the weight to see yours. The amount is set to the portion in the text (360 g); change it to what you actually ate. BodyPal works this out from your steps automatically.
On this page
- Stella Artois quick facts
- US pours, from a chalice to a pint can
- Light, low-carb and non-alcoholic versions
- Carbs explain only a third of the calories
- How does Stella Artois compare?
- Most popular stella artois brands
- FAQ
Stella Artois quick facts
There is no branded row for Stella Artois in the USDA database, and that is not an oversight. Alcoholic beer is labeled under the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau rather than the FDA, so the Branded Foods dataset simply does not carry it. Searching it returns root beer, ginger beer soda, beer brats and beer cheese — 4,898 rows, not one of them a lager.
The right record is SR Legacy 168746, "Alcoholic beverage, beer, regular, all", the generic profile for a full-strength American lager at roughly 5% alcohol. Stella Artois is sold at 5.0% ABV in the United States, which puts it squarely on that row. Everything below is scaled from it.
| Nutrient | Per 100 g | Per 1 bottle, 12 fl oz (360 g) | % Daily Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calories | 43 | 155 | — |
| Total fat | 0 g | 0 g | 0% |
| Saturated fat | 0 g | 0 g | 0% |
| Carbohydrate | 3.55 g | 12.8 g | 5% |
| Dietary fiber | 0 g | 0 g | 0% |
| Total sugars | 0 g | 0 g | — |
| Protein | 0.46 g | 1.7 g | 3% |
| Sodium | 4 mg | 14 mg | 1% |
% Daily Value is based on a 2,000-calorie diet.
Verified nutrition data
Numbers on this page come from USDA FoodData Central, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s food composition database, and from manufacturer labels where a branded product is named. Last verified September 2026. How we verify our data →
Two rows you would expect on a US label are missing here: added sugars and trans fat. USDA does not publish either value for this beer record, so rather than guess them, we left them out. Cholesterol is 0 mg. Potassium is the one mineral worth naming: 27 mg per 100 g works out to 97 mg per bottle, about 2% of the Daily Value, which is a rounding error next to a banana.
US pours, from a chalice to a pint can
Stella Artois shows up in three formats an American drinker actually holds: the 11.2 fl oz bottle that comes in the import six-pack, the 12 fl oz can, and the 16 fl oz pint can. The branded chalice glass is nominally 11.2 fl oz when filled to the etch, which is why the import bottle and the glass match.
| Serving | Weight | Calories |
|---|---|---|
| 1 fl oz | 30 g | 13 kcal |
| One chalice or import bottle, 11.2 fl oz | 336 g | 144 kcal |
| One can or bottle, 12 fl oz | 360 g | 155 kcal |
| One pint can, 16 fl oz | 480 g | 206 kcal |
| Per 100 g | 100 g | 43 kcal |
The 12 fl oz line is the USDA household measure on this record. The 11.2 fl oz, 16 fl oz and 1 fl oz lines are our own arithmetic from the USDA 100 g figure, not USDA servings. USDA also lists a 40 fl oz bottle at 516 calories, a format Stella Artois is not sold in stateside, but it is a useful ceiling: that single bottle is more calories than three chalices.
The gap between formats is bigger than most people picture. Swapping the import bottle for the pint can adds 62 calories per drink without changing a thing about the beer. Two pint cans over an evening is 412 calories, roughly a fast-food cheeseburger, and nobody counts it as food.
Light, low-carb and non-alcoholic versions
Stella Artois itself is a single recipe in the US, but the shelf around it is not, and the USDA rows for each style tell you what switching actually buys. All six below are scaled to the same 12 fl oz pour so the comparison is honest.
| Version | Per 100 g | 12 fl oz (360 g) | Carbohydrate per serving |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regular lager, Stella Artois strength | 43 kcal | 155 kcal | 12.8 g |
| Light beer | 29 kcal | 104 kcal | 5.9 g |
| Low-carb light beer | 27 kcal | 97 kcal | 2.6 g |
| Higher-alcohol beer | 58 kcal | 209 kcal | 1.0 g |
| Non-alcoholic malt beverage | 37 kcal | 133 kcal | 29.0 g |
| Budweiser | 41 kcal | 148 kcal | 10.7 g |
The per-serving carbohydrate column is our own arithmetic from each row's 100 g figure. Read it next to the calorie column and the whole "low carb equals light" idea falls apart. The higher-alcohol row has the fewest carbs on the table — 1.0 g, less than half the 2.6 g in the low-carb light beer — and the most calories, 209. The non-alcoholic malt beverage has the most carbs by a mile, 29.0 g, because the sugars were never fermented away, yet it lands at 133 calories, below the regular lager.
Budweiser sits 7 calories under Stella Artois per bottle, 148 against 155, which is close enough that the choice between them is about taste, not math. Bud Light at 104 and Budweiser Select at 101 are the real cuts, and both cost you alcohol as well as calories.
Carbs explain only a third of the calories
This is the number that surprises people. Carbohydrate at 12.8 g per bottle accounts for about 51 calories, and protein at 1.7 g adds roughly 7 more — both our own arithmetic at 4 calories per gram. That leaves close to 97 calories in a Stella Artois with nowhere to sit on the nutrition panel. They come from the alcohol, which carries energy but is not a macronutrient the FDA Daily Value system covers.
So a beer marketed on its carb count is telling you about a third of the story. If you log Stella Artois by carbs alone, you will under-count it by around 100 calories per bottle.
The %DV column is quiet in the other direction. Sodium is 14 mg per bottle, 1% of the Daily Value, so beer is not a salt problem — that is about one-hundredth of a teaspoon of table salt. Protein is 1.7 g, 3% DV, which is real but trivial. Fat, saturated fat, fiber, sugars and cholesterol are all zero. Nutritionally the bottle is alcohol, a little starch residue and water.
For context on how a bottle fits a day, CDC counts 12 fl oz of 5% beer as one standard drink, and the Dietary Guidelines for Americans put moderate drinking at two drinks or fewer a day for men and one or fewer for women. Two Stella Artois bottles is 310 calories before anything else on the table.
How does Stella Artois compare?
| Drink | Per 100 g | US serving | Calories |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stella Artois, regular lager | 43 kcal | 12 fl oz (360 g) | 155 kcal |
| Hard cider | 56 kcal | 12 fl oz (360 g) | 202 kcal |
| Alcoholic malt beverage | 58 kcal | 12 fl oz (360 g) | 209 kcal |
| Hard seltzer | 24 kcal | 12 fl oz (360 g) | 86 kcal |
Our take: among these four, only the hard seltzer is lighter than the lager, and it is lighter by a lot — 86 calories against 155, a saving of 69 per drink. If you are drinking three on a Friday and the number matters, that is the swap that moves it. Cider and flavored malt beverages both run ahead of Stella Artois, and the malt beverage at 209 is a third heavier per serving. Within beer itself, a light lager at 104 is the sensible middle ground: you keep the drink, you drop 51 calories, and you lose less than a percentage point of alcohol.
Most popular stella artois brands in the United States
Ranked by how widely each product appears among foods sold in the United States, from the BodyPal food database of over 3.3 million products. Calories are the figures printed on each Nutrition Facts label, checked against USDA FoodData Central.
| Product | Calories (per 100 g) |
|---|---|
| Budweiser | 41 cal |
| Bud Light | 29 cal |
| Budweiser Select | 28 cal |
Brand popularity: BodyPal food database. Nutrition: manufacturer labels / USDA FoodData Central.
Stella Artois FAQs
How many calories are in a Stella Artois?
155 calories in a 12 fl oz bottle or can, and 144 in the 11.2 fl oz import bottle that fills a chalice glass. Per 100 g the beer runs 43 calories, the USDA figure for a regular lager at about 5% alcohol. A 16 fl oz pint can is 206.
How many carbs are in Stella Artois?
12.8 g of carbohydrate in a 12 fl oz serving, which is 5% of the Daily Value, from 3.55 g per 100 g. There is no fiber and USDA records zero total sugars, so all of it counts as net carbs. The 11.2 fl oz bottle holds 11.9 g.
How many calories in a pint of Stella Artois?
206 calories in a US pint, meaning the 16 fl oz can, which weighs about 480 g. That is 51 more than a 12 fl oz bottle for the same beer, purely because the pour is 120 g larger. Carbohydrate rises with it, to roughly 17.0 g.
How many calories in an 11.2 oz Stella Artois bottle?
144 calories, the format sold in the import six-pack and the pour the branded chalice is etched for. It carries about 11.9 g of carbohydrate and 1.5 g of protein. The figure is our own arithmetic from the USDA 100 g value of 43 calories, not a USDA serving.
Is Stella Artois keto friendly?
At 12.8 g of carbohydrate per bottle, one Stella Artois takes a large bite out of a 20 to 30 g daily carb budget. A low-carb light beer is 2.6 g for the same 12 fl oz and 97 calories. If you are counting carbs closely, the lager is a once-in-a-while drink.
How much sugar is in Stella Artois?
Zero: the USDA record lists 0 g of total sugars for regular beer, because brewer's yeast ferments the malt sugars into alcohol before the beer is packaged. USDA does not publish an added sugars value for this record, so no added sugars figure appears on this page. The carbohydrate that remains is starch residue.
Stella Artois vs Budweiser calories: which is lower?
Budweiser, by 7 calories: 148 per 12 fl oz against 155 for a regular lager like Stella Artois. Per 100 g it is 41 against 43. That gap is smaller than the difference between pouring 11.2 fl oz and 12 fl oz, so format matters more than brand here.
What is the ABV of Stella Artois?
5.0% in the United States, which is why the generic USDA row for regular beer at roughly 5% alcohol is the right match. CDC counts 12 fl oz of 5% beer as exactly one standard drink. A stronger beer at the same pour would run 209 calories, not 155.
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Count it without the math
Point the camera at the glass and BodyPal logs the pour for you, chalice or pint can.
