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Just a beer (mixed beverage with beer the main ingredient) but pretty good. This isn't an upper crust high brow beverage, just a beer! :lol:
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budweiser does it for me!! :D :D

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fallingwickets wrote: Mon Jul 23, 2018 4:13 am budweiser does it for me!! :D :D

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Ye gods and little fishes, Clive! This coming from a man who has Becks for an avatar?
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I could make a good michelada from Beck's! Doesn't have to be a Mexican beer, but it helps.
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had one if these and then there is the chelada.
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Sam, I haven't tried the Modelo Chelada, but now it's on the top of my list.
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gary, no way in the whole wide world Im using becks for anything other than drinking one.!!!!! c'mon man!! :D :D :D :D :D
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I’d not heard of Michelada until I read this thread. I looked up the recipe and it is very similar to a Calgary Red Eye. I make my CRE with clamato juice rather than tomato juice. It’s the only way I’ll drink North American beer (eg. Molson, Labatts, Bud, Coors,etc.), but I’m a dyed in the wool Guinness and bitter drinker.
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I would guess that V-8 would work, too. I agree that a "standard" North American beer would work for this, but in the last 20-30 years there has been a vast emergence of craft breweries, and now at the point where they are driving each other out of business or getting acquired by the big breweries.

I was curious, so I looked up a michelada recipe. 3 oz of tomato juice to 12 oz of beer, plus hot sauce, salt, chili powder, worcestershire sauce, and lime juice. A lot like a Bloody Mary, with the beer diluting the juice rather than the juice diluting the vodka.

A chelada is simpler - add lime juice (2 oz) and salt to beer (12 oz).
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Paul, one thing I have learned about these is that when ordered at a bar or restaurant, the bartenders tend to use a variety of recipes.
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Oh, sure, I was just getting an idea of what they were. I've never had one, but now I know enough to approximate one at home, and then tweak the recipe to taste. I suppose some bartenders use a recipe from a book, and others made it unique, maybe not even making it quite the same every time.
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Lately I've been using the commercial michelada mix. I've used Modelo, Dos Equis, and even some Bud Light that was lurking in the refrig. I went to see a baseball game and had a 16 oz Modelo Chelada. It was OK too. I won't touch anything associated with clam juice.
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