Budweiser Chelada

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

Serve in Lager glass, Tumbler

If your expecting this beer to turn you over by looking and smelling like tomato, spices, and seafood, but tasting like an imperial stout, why are you rating this beer? The idea comes from a country that covers sour candy, watermelon, and assorted other things in chili powder. You have to have that palate to appreciate this beer. Good effort on the part of Budweiser to make a chelada concoction. If you like a good bloody mary, you might like this beer, but not as a replacement.

It poured into the plastic cup a bizarre, unnatural grapefruit-juice color. Upon putting my nose up to the cup and taking a whiff, I was shocked. The smell is beyond words. Seemingly out of nowhere, it punched me in the face with a stinging, acidic, hot vomit stench that burned my sinuses and instantly induced the gag reflex. It smelled exactly like barf. I did not want to taste it. I wanted to run away. But there was no turning back. The flavor... I can’t really find the words to describe it other than vomit. This tastes like you are drinking someone’s vomit. This is hands-down the most offensively terrible thing I’ve ever tasted. I took two tiny sips and couldn’t bear any more. I’d rather piss a cactus than ever taste/smell this again. Anyone who likes this can stay the hell away from me. And the people who conceived this should be burned at the fucking stake.

(can 10/25/10). Cloudy pink/peach color. Light pink head, which diminishes quickly. Light tomato aroma with very light citrus. Same flavor, with light sweetness. Short duration. Light dry finish. Slick texture. Soft carbonation. Spare lacing.

Grapefruitish orange pink with no head. Smells like sickly tomato juice, a touch of fake lime juice, and some tomato paste. Taste was tomato-y, spicy, and a certain tone of bile. Made me want to puke. Tastes artificial with a dash of ceyanne and tomato paste. Sickly. Bad.

1 Sept 2011, can. budweiser is actually lighter than the bud light chelada. light red peach colour, slightly hazy with sediment and bubbles. nose is actually alright. smells more of a bloody mary than anything. can’t smell much clam juice or beer. thin body and a bit fizzy. there is something of a bloody mary consistency, but certainly mixed with beer. can’t say it’s terrible, but i’d never drink more than a few sips. it tastes of a slightly sweet beer and fairly weak bloody mary. couldn’t drink much of either but i probably prefer the bud heavy version.

Thanks a ton for this one, Joe’s dad. 16 oz. can, but I didn’t drink nearly that much. Pours a sickly pink. The aroma is tomato soup (complete with oyster crackers), vague citrus, and saltwater. I recoiled from the smell just leaning over the can. The flavor is briny, bitter and surprisingly awful. The palate is light, clingy, and very carbonated. Overall, this is one of the most awful things I’ve drunk. I don’t understand how this was ever a good idea. Why would you ever make this?

OK, I was warned. when I saw this, I had to try it. "Let the Buyer Beware".....ok, I learned my lesson! I don’t believe there is a worse beer out there. I literally begged some other people to help me finish this "stuff"

Not as bad as i thought it would be. Poured a light pink. Tasted like salty clam juice with carbonation. I dont think i could drink the entire can but maybe half on a hot day.