Budweiser Chelada

General66 thought it would be funny to grab a can of this stuff. Quite a few people tried this stuff and no-body liked it, at all! 24 oz. can, poured a pale pink color. A bit hazy with some little red floaties, probably from the tomato juice. Smelled like tomato juice and left-over seafood that’s been sitting in your fridge for just long enough that you probably shouldn’t eat it. Doesn’t smell like beer at all. Tasted just like it smelled. The clam aspect of it was really overpowering for me. Just a hint of Bud in there. The only thing that saved this from getting a 0.5 from me is that it’s interesting.

24 oz can from Albertsons. Pours a murky orange-pink color with a light pink head that immediately disappeared. As the head vanished it left behind a disgusting pond scum floating on the top. The aroma was just plain obnoxious, sort of like rotting garbage, or the smell that comes from a backing-up sink disposal. Only after intense concentration can I discern that these foul odors are just a mixture of clams, and processed, chemical tasting, tomato juice (Bud is not apparent in the aroma--a good thing.) The taste is better than the aroma, twice as good in fact, so I rated it a two instead of a one. In the flavor, the tomato juice is more pronounced and the clams less so. The mouthfeel is fizzy, slick and greasy. The finish is disturbingly long with lingering fish and some pepper. Overall: It is hard to imagine that a brewer dedicated to bland beer-like products would market something this revolting in their first outing into flavor. But, there it is, enjoy.

Watermelon pink and headless. Aroma is tomato and black pepper. Taste is salty, rather spicy bloody mary, with a hit of citric acid. Very little about this product is identifiable as beer. Highly carbonated and lively for what it is, but still just plain wrong.

22 oz can from Kroger. Tried this for novelty value only. Pours pink, purely pink, with a massive head and no retention. Aroma and taste are similar, and as far as describing them.... let’s just say there was a lot of gagging. Definitely not lacking on flavor, but this is one Budweiser should be.

while visiting illini08 in Champaign yesterday, General66 brought over a can of this unusual brew. over the next half-hour there must have been 8 or 9 of us giving this one a try. to see the facial expressions of everyone was really priceless, kind of like the bitter beer face commercials from a couple of years ago.
the beer ( and I use that term very loosely ) poured a hazy reddish gold. aroma was from the Clamato, fishy with some tomato juice. flavor was very un-beer-like. fizzy clams with tomato juice and somewhere lurking in the background was a hint of the Budweiser.
thanks Bobby, nice to meet you and share a laugh.

tomato like aroma, fizzy spicy, watermelon colored water, forcing myself through this one, makes me appreciate other options

Local A-B rep was pulling out all the beers at the World Cafe Live beer fest. I’ve seen cans of Bud Chelada in the South, and the rep was telling me its a huge seller in Texas due to the Hispanic population. He also said for white folks like me its a great hangover beer. Whatever...this is equal parts clamato and scudweiser in a can. sweet, clammy and far from anything I’d drink on a regular basis.

I really didn’t think that this was literally going to be Budweiser and Bloody Mary mix. Alas, I was tragically wrong. My friend said that this tastes like "spaghetti water", whatever that means. This is really the most disgusting fucking beer I’ve ever had, next to the Granddaddy of them all: Steel Reserve. Definitely gets dangerously close thereto however in the vomit department. AFTERTHOUGHT: After having Steel Reserve the other day, I can definitely say that Budweiser Chelada is EASILY worse and therefore it has claimed the crown for "Most Disgusting Fuckin’ Beer Ever." It has absolutely in my mind and many others, set a new standard. Therefore I’ve changed the rating to .5, the lowest I can. Congrats, Anheuser-Busch, you’re back at worst.