Bud Light Chelada

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

Serve in Lager glass, Tumbler

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UPDATED: MAY 27, 2008 Even though there are tons of horrible reviews here I feel the need to add one more. This is by FAR the worst beer I have had. Actually I don’t think this is beer. The aroma is putrid with tomatoes, puke, shellfish, alcohol, lime, and trash. The appearance is pink with a fizzy head. The flavor is like the aroma. The palate is chalky and thin. I can’t smell or drink this any more even a sip. Rating this was difficult to say the least. Thank you AB for unleashing this gag bomb/ "drink" on us.

24oz can, purchased from the CVS on OU’s campus. Totally hazy raspberry color, lots of tomato juice particles in the body. Thin head that fades to minimal before I could tell what color it was. Strong, bloody mary mix flavor, that’s all that is there. I shared this with my college senior macro-drinking friends, and they HATED it, seemingly even more than I did (personally, I’m usually sort of a bloody mary fan). They are urging me to score this very poorly, but I feel like they are exaggerating a little bit. I guess if all you drink is busch and the occasional craft on special occasions, sure, this will probably be the worst thing you’ve ever tried. Don’t get me wrong, though, it’s certainly awful. Jimmy: "Hardest struggle I’ve had since straight hard liquor". Sweet tomato juice taste that isn’t drinkable at all without the rest of the goodness that usually comprises a bloody mary. Who would drink 24oz of this? I’m not sure I could even finish my 8oz sample. Annie: "How did this make it beyond the experimental phase?" Very light carbonation, spicy taste. Andy: "Like a shot, but without the alcohol." Clearly, they don’t like it. Pretty much tastes like expired tomato juice. Honestly, I’m not even sure if you can call this real beer. An addition of liquor might even make it slightly better. Drinking this was a miserable experience, but hey.. At least, now I know.

Pours a dark pink with a sci-fi roiling pinkish head...like it’s trying to escape. Scent is water and bargain bloody mary mix. Taste is....OH DEAR GOD......What is that?! Seawater ?!? Ketchup ?!?! Fish??!!?!?!?. hope I don’t have to throw my glass away.....poured out immediately... Let us never speak of this incident again.

16 oz can. Pours a clear pink. Aroma of sea water and citrus. Flavor is sea water, fish, lime. Almost caused vomitting after 3 miniscule sips. Beyond disgusting.  Worst thing I have ever tasted. Drain pour.

I love the beer. Clam in beer is muy bueno! In Chihuahua, where I from, it is most popular and favorable of my friends. I drink every day after work. Good drink to make me relax. I love the beer that is the Chelada.

16 oz can bought for...well to trick some friends of mine. A - An odd pinkish peach colored body. Some foamy bubbles but no head to really speak of. S - Smells like salsa with a twang of corny sweetness on the finish. Vile clam and tomato juice. T - The initial taste isn’t too terrible. Tomato juice with some clammy and salty notes. The aftertaste is just miserable though. Salty and skunky. Bleh...mouth feel is carbonated and sort of light. O - This is just gross. One for the worst things I’ve ever tasted. The aroma just seems rotten and the aftertaste is off putting and lasting. Avoid, avoid, avoid, AVOID!!!!

This is the very meaning of relaxation. Never before has a drink of any kind satisfied me so. Would take a can of this over a bottle of Westvleteren.

Can shared by a friend at the Hopsnobbery Collective’s first (and last) Crappy Beer Tasting on 2/29/12. Pours a clear gold color with a thin white head. Aroma of cold spaghetti sauce and spoiled nastiness. Salty flavor with a tomato ketchup character before a salty tomato finish. Pretty much tastes like ocean water and cold ketchup. Group consensus crowned this gem with the prestigious title of worst beer ever. Close 2nd for yours truly.

Can at Chriso’s Fullers-Gales Tasting, thanks to Leighton. It pours cloudy deep orange, with pretty much no head. The nose is tomato, spice, salt and green vegetables. The taste is (unsurprisingly) sweet tomato, salt, cracked black pepper and chilli pepper. The best thing is that you can’t taste the bud light. It’s a lot like bloody mary mix, so we just added some vodka and Worcestershire sauce to liven it up. Not as bad as anticipated (but then again I do like bloody marys).

Poured from bottle into pint glass. Smells strongly of tomato/vegetables. Smells like a gross V8 drink. Poured an artificial neon pink color. Taste is horrible. Has a fake tomato taste that is overly salty. I feel like I need a glass of water after a few sips. I detect no hints of alcohol in this. Not sure how people drink this.

Can. Another bottle/can of piss consumed at our party last friday night. Drank straight from the can of course. Tastes like old clam and shitty beer. Enough said, rating over. I’ll elaborate I guess since I have nothing to do today. Rotten vegetables is all I smell from this can of greatness. Way too salty after a few sips. I wish my friends didn’t drink swill. I’ll leave this one at all 1’s.