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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Marketed for the Hispanic crowd I guess since Spanish is the first listed language on this can. Pours a weird thin tomato juice red with a very fizzy loose white carbonation that dies instantly. Pepper, clam juice, tomato aroma. Not bad, not beer. Taste is big peppery clam juice, tomato juice, salt, citrus...again it isn’t the worst thing ever, but just drink a bloody mary and get smashed a lot quicker.

(can 12/21/10). Cloudy pink color. Spare off white head. Light tomato juice aroma with very light spice. Flavor of the same with light citrus. Slick texture. Moderate carbonation. Spare lacing.

24 oz. can. Much much lighter than the Bud Chelada. Cloudy dark honey body with no head. Nose-smells just like bloody mary mix. Taste-simple: tastes like beer and bloody mary mix mixed together. Tastes just like the Bud Chelada but without as much lime and salt. Light bile, effervescent, very bright tasting with some good meaty flavors, worstecher sauce, dry fruit. Better than the Bud Chelada.

Can at ChrisO "I’m Trying to see the Stool" pre GBBF2010 tasting. Orange red pink colour. Tomato juice aroma. Some toms, some clams in the flavour. Some Worcstershire sauce. OK and no way as bad as people claimed. I mean it’s not a beer, but as a drink it’s ok. The pale lager is really subsumed by the other stronger flavours.

Cloudy red body roughly the color of grapefruit juice. No head. Highly carbonated fizz. Aroma of tomato juice. Sweet tomato juice flavor, with no real hints of the underlying bud light.

UPDATED: APR 8, 2008 710 ml. can, coded freshness date on the bottom of the can, pouring suggestion above the list of ingredients and trademarks, sampled in an old Budweiser lager/pilsener glass that I purchased at a yard sale a couple of years ago. L: Cloudy appearance and, well, I thought the body looks exactly like homemade Texas Ruby Red grapefruit juice, thick with plenty of pulp. Fluffy, foamy pinkish head that rose quickly and fell even faster, splotchy lace dots ring the top of the glass. After about a minute the head completely disappears, not even a fine line circling the glass is evident. I don’t find this repulsive looking, but the lack of any head retention on a light beer with an low ABV is a bit disconcerting. Makes me doubt this will retain any beer-like qualities. S: Mildly spicy clamato juice, tomato juice and clam broth, traces of black pepper, salt and a bare hint of lime. Nothing in the way of any pale macro lager scents. F&T: If you have ever tried Mott’s Clamato Juice, then the mouthfeel and taste will be of no surprise to you. The body is oily thick like clamato juice, quite slick on the tongue and the spicy flavor really sticks to the sides of the palate. The fizzy carbonation is the only recognizable Bud Light element this possesses. Any Bud Light tastes that might be detected are completely overwhelmed by the clamato juice. All the mass produced clamato juice flavors are present, tomato juice mixed with peppery Tabasco, Worcestershire sauce and spicy clam broth with a dash of lime juice. Towards the end a mineral salty bitterness comes out, adding a touch of dryness to mildly hot clamato juice. My girlfriend pick this up tonight after hearing a work mate talk about having it at a local Crazy Wings. I thought this was going to be awful, but it is actually not that bad. An acquired taste, yes, but worth a try.

If you love clamato, drink this! That’s all it tastes like. No beer flavor here whatsoever. Fortunately, I do like clamato, but this is just a bit too much. Just a splash in your beer is much better.

Canned. Pours a pinkish color. Aroma is like that of the sea. Flavor is of spiced tomato juice with a beer flavor in the background. Better than regular Bud Light.

At first, I thought that this was a coup d’etat attempt to dethrone Tequiza for ’Worst AB Flavored-Beer Send Up’. Then I thought - tomatoes, beer -- it’s marinade at the mini-mart!. Seriously, though, this stretches the scope and breadth of what I throw under the ’beer’ umbrella. Smells like V8 - savory. A festive coloring, a bad can. Salty, tomato-y, cayenne pepper burn. Can’t really comment on hops, malting or yeast. I could see swigging this on a stolen day off at the beach, I could see this as canned hair-of-the-dog. This is a tomato shandy, and an attempt to sell Bloody Mary’s at the Qwik Stop. Though this tastes better, in an absolute sense, than say King Cobra, I can’t help but think that I’d drink a cheap malt liquor first when I had a taste for ’beer’. Can’t wait for the fully-leaded Bud version of this.

Can. Medium head with medium duration. Color is golden amber. Aroma and taste are rich tomato juice, sugar, caramel and hops. Chili pepper as well. A little watery.