Budweiser Chelada

Can courtesy of dragonstout at the Otown December tasting. Murky light pink pour. Very nice aroma of sweet tomato juice. Flavor was watered down tomato juice and black pepper. I actually preferred the bud light version!! THis one was too tart and ummm gross.

First time I saw cans of this in a liquor store I thought it was the most disgusting idea imagined. But I tried one in a bar a few nights ago and was surprised, although I tried the Bud Light version. Tonight I picked up a can of this to see if my impression held. It pours pinkish watery red in colour and the pink head goes away quick. Aroma is of sweet malt, tomato, clam, and lime. The flavour follows it, with watery sweet malt, no hops, tomato, clams, MSG, salt, and lime. Finish is of tomato, salt, MSG, and clam. Mouthfeel is thin with a lot of carbonation. I really should not like this, but I have to say it is really not bad. Certainly much preferable to drinking Budweiser or Bud Light by itself.

Oh no....no no no no no....Make the bad brewer stop! Please make him stop!

Liquid vomit in a can. Why in the name of all things that are holy do I do things like this to myself?

P00tz sez: Dios mio, amigo! No me gusto! My hombre Felipe tried to tell me that this shit was like the bloody goodness he and his other hombres drank in our neighbor to the South, but I don’t buy it, man. Felipe takes more than a puff puff before he gives so I don’t really trust the guy anyway. I mean, I’ve had my tomato juice before bed many a night in an attempt to stave off a hangover, and fuck it, I’ve had it mixed with beer some nights... but clams, man? No me gusto!

I have never nor would I ever put this swill to my lips. I smelled it and that is enough to over rate it 0.5 here. I mean, I have smelled a steaming pile of dog doo (not up close or on purpose) and know the same is true: do not ingest!

Not at all good. Almost like a tomato soda. The color was kind of nice, but the tomato flavor is not at all palatable. Had to pour this one down the drain.

It was way better than expected. Not quite a "red" beer. Color is similar to watermellon juice; kind of pink. Soda pop foam when poured with no head or lace. Very pronounced Clamato aroma - fishy and tomatoey.. Ditto with the flavor. Not that bad, though, really. Actually I like it much better than a shandy. Wonder how it’d be using a weiss beer as a base instead of macro lagar. The Clamato totally dominates the Bud. Got it at a quick mart in North Miami Beach. Has almost no beer character. As far as being a great beer, the can says "drink alone or as a mixer". Read into that as you wish.