Budweiser Chelada

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.

24 oz can poured pink and red with no head. Big tomato aroma. Tasted like a V* bloody mary. Could use some celery salt. Not a bad flavor, but not what I would call a beer. No discernible typical bud flavor.

Budweiser w/ Clamato so delicious! It makes me tempting to drink Cheleda more! I loves it!

24 oz. can. I saw this in the store a couple of weeks ago and picked one up to enjoy during a football game. So, today is the day and out it came. Pours a cloudy watermelon pink with a fizzy, large-bubbled pink head that disappeared before the first sip. The aroma is very mild clamato juice (tomato, clams and some black pepper) and not much else. The flavor is again mostly clamato, although it is a bit stronger than in the aroma. I like clamato juice, so this is not an unpleasant beer for me. This is not something I would drink every day, and I probably won’t be buying another can anytime soon, but it is not foul or horrid either.

I can see this is getting pretty lousy ratings - so don’t throw things at me, please, but I liked it, and consider it to be one of Anheuser Busch’s best products. It is based on a Mexican way of enjoying beer. I have tried lagers before with hot sauce and lime and salt, without enjoying them very much, but the addition of clam juice and tomato makes it a lot better. The salmon-coral color gives it a look like soda pop or guava juice, and the head disappers immediately. There is a hint of tomato in the mainstream lager aroma. This is a salty, tomato dominated beverage that seems more like a Bloody Mary than a beer, but the flavor is surprisingly good - tomato sweetness and citrus plus a little hot sauce mixed with mild lager. The aftertaste is spicy with a touch of fish. This makes a nice change of pace brew.

Actually I do not drink A-B products, however I found this rather tastey one hot day when I had nothing else in my beer fridge (my neighbor’s cleaned me out). I love the taste of tomato, lime, and clam juice so this beer is not too bad although light.

When I was young I used to mix bad beer with tomato juice, and it seemed OK. But this seems like something different. Is it the lime? Really vile tasting stuff, this is, and poured a yucky pink with no head. Mouthfeel is medium, and the flavor is of tomato and lime, with no sense of being beer. Very salty and kind of makes you sick to your stomach.

THOUGHTS: It didn’t really seem like beer at all. I can’t see why you would put lime and tomato together. Beer could go with either, but all three together are pretty bad. Also, carbonation and tomato juice don’t mix well. Why couldn’t this have been in a 8 oz. can instead of a 24 oz. one. Drinking this is like vomiting in reverse by the end of the can. You almost need a chaser to drink this one. By the way it also burns the belly. TECHNICAL: Can. Poured a muddy salmon color that was sort of like ruby red grapefruit juice but with more orange. It had a small to average, fizzy, pink head that fully diminished and left virtually no lacing, but there was residue left on the glass all the way down. The aroma was mostly tomato soup, underlying lime, salt and a slight bit of vomit. The initial flavor was light to moderately sweet, moderate to heavily acidic and very salty; while the finish was lightly sweet and acidic, and salty with an average duration. There was tomato soup up front then lemon-lime seltzer in the back. The spicy tongue burning aspect of the beer may have just been all the salt. The medium to full body was soupy with very fizzy carbonation and a spicy, salty and light astringent finish.