Michelada

[brothers]

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!

[fallingwickets]

budweiser does it for me!!

clive

[Rufus]

budweiser does it for me!!

clive

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

[brothers]

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

[Sam]

had one if these and then there is the chelada.

[brothers]

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

[fallingwickets]

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

[Rufus]

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.

[Pauldog]

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).

[brothers]

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.

[Pauldog]

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.

[brothers]

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.