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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!

budweiser does it for me!!

clive

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

clive

Ye gods and little fishes, Clive! This coming from a man who has Becks for an avatar?

I could make a good michelada from Beck's! Doesn't have to be a Mexican beer, but it helps.

had one if these and then there is the chelada.

Sam, I haven't tried the Modelo Chelada, but now it's on the top of my list.

gary, no way in the whole wide world Im using becks for anything other than drinking one.!!!!! c'mon man!!

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.