Bud Light Chelada

Brewed by Anheuser-Busch InBev
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
St. Louis, Missouri USA

24oz can. Poured cloudy pink with an almost instantly-receding cap of white head. The aroma picked up stale tomato juice, vomit, and salty clam juice.. came together with the consistency of the third rinsing of a pizza sauce jar.. just awful. The flavor had more tomato juice and stewed tomato at the core, with the aforementioned vomit resonating outward.. again it was salty, picking up a little basil.. far too long of a nasty finish. Light-bodied, with a syrupy, nasty feel from the tomato juice. Why the hell did I buy this? This joins the regular Bud Chelada and Cave Creek Chili as the only completely undrinkable beers I’ve come across.

Pours red, clamato red. No head at all. Smells like clamato, with a slightly rancid bread taste. I assume thats the Bud light in it.Nice mouth feel. It tastes just like a Red Eye that you would make at home or order in a bar. Basically, clamato and carbonation. Although it does not taste bad (I like clamato) I feel the only reason to ever have a Red Eye is so you can hide the horrible flavour of your shitty beer. And that is what they have done here, they covered up that terrible bud light flavour with clamato. It is not really a beer at all. Thus, I don’t feel I can give it pionts for flavour aroma or palate. It just woulden’t be fair to all of the real beers out there.

Can that I brought to BCTC more as a joke and a threat than anything else. There was for a while a standing bet which rose sporadically through the night for anyone who would shotgun the can of this. I’m slightly sad no one did, because it would have spared me the inevitable horror that was to come. At some point some brave, stupid, or unsuspecting individual (maybe all three?) did the deed and cracked the tab on this bold beauty and the game was afoot. Pours a hazy orange red with floaty chunks in it. I probably should be giving this a 1 on appearance over a 2, but I’m sure I could envision something actually looking less appealing than this. I’m pretty sure it would have to have larger chunks, and they’d need to move of their own volition, but something could look worse. Same thing with the aroma. I could theoretically hypothesize a beer or beer like product, which could in fact, smell worse than this. It would be a badge of (dis)honor to do so, but it could be done. As it was, this smelled like tomatoes, and bile. I had to suppress a dry heave or two every time I brought the glass up to my nose to cautiously take another whiff of it. It honestly took me about 10 to 15 minutes of walking around in terror before I could muster up the courage to put any of this into my mouth. When I did it came flying back out, and threatened to take my stomach contents with it. I fought hard to fight back the urge to vomit. Even managed to try another taste of it. Tasted even worse than it smelled. Horrible. Downright horrible. This will be the beer of my nightmares for years to come. So with my apologies to Breughel La Gueuze de Kamouraska (a terror in it’s own right, and quite honestly the worst thing to ever pass for a Gueuze) for it’s displacement from the bottom, it seems I have a new low point on my ratings scale.

aroma of something that went bad along time ago, off red color, who put clamato in my can of beer. way too salty. I cant remember the last time a beer was so bad I could not finish it.

Need to give it the benefit of the doubt. can, pours hazy orange/pink, light pinkish head. Not sure where this one fits in beer style. The light version had less beer notes compared to the regular Bud. overall aroma and taste, clam juice with salt, fresh lemon and tomato. More like a premixed drink, just had vodka and Tabasco and you have a Bloody Mary. Just fun to drink and see you beer geek friends frown at you.

Can. A pink beer with a disappearing pink head. The aroma is like tomato juice. The flavor is sweet and dominated by tomates. The body is light. Nice for a tomato juice, but not a beer.

This is pretty gross. The only way i would recomend it is if you are doing some early morning drinking and what the tomato juice. Every drink makes me finish with an uuugh. Had to try it because I was mystified as to how it remains in the stores. Gross, and I like Bud Light.

I’m not even sure why this concoction was ever invented. Smells like sour tomatoes, tastes worse. I’m hoping that the hispanic population (who this brew is apparentley marketed toward) likes this, because I have no fondness for it whatsoever.