Budweiser Chelada

24 oz can, QT in McKinney, TX. Pours orange-red, not translucent, no head. Aroma of tomato sauce and . literally, faint vomit on first impression...Flavor takes a few sips to get use to, it has a slight peppery spice, salt, faint hints of garlic? Oh, and tomato juice....Mouth feel seems like medium carbonation and medium body....Overall, I am almost done with the first glass and the taste started to grow on me...At first smell, I honestly almost gagged.....but now that it is almost done, not all that bad, kinda like it....similar to a poorly made bloody mary.......I read that it contains Shellfish on the can.

7/1/08 From 16oz can. I don’t really know how to take this, but I’d have to agree with other raters that reviewing this as a beer is a bad idea, both for you and the ";beer";. Think of the thinnest bloddy mary you can imagine with basically no spices and a spritzy carb texture, and I think you’ll have a pretty good idea if the flavor.

pretty tasty for what it is smells like beer and spicey tomato juice flavor is the same taste good for what it is

As already stated, the concept of mixing beer and tomato/Clamato juice is nothing new. A "red eye" has been around for decades, and I don’t believe its origins come from south of the border. I think AB went the "chelada" route because of recent trends, and the fact Clamato juice has really taken off in Mexico and Central America, and has become a huge market for Clamato. I’m a big fan of Clamato juice, I enjoy a red eye, so how bad could it be? This beer pours to a opaque pink color, with a pink head that quickly fades, and a vibrant carbonation. The nose on this beer is a mix of lime/Clamato which is nice if you like that, trouble is, most don’t. The palate is salty, with Clamato flavor, which pretty masks any beer flavor. This beer ends with more Clamato/salty flavors, then ends with a hint of lime flavor and salt that lingers. Not a very good example of red eye. If you like Clamato (I love it) it is palatable for that reason alone. That being said, you would do far better making your own red eye with a better tasting beer, Clamato, or what ever tomato based juice you fancy. Worth a try for the curious, but not a beer I would ever purchase again.

24 Fluid Ounces of FUN! Not a whole lot to say on this one... snail shell dunked in tomato juice aroma... with a flavor to match... (a wee bit better than the Bud Light version) the salt and lime do shine through on the finish... thankfully removing most of the horrible flavor.

I’m going to go against the grain on this and say that the addition of Clamato (a fine juice on it’s own) actually makes Bud more palatable. The "bloody beer" has been something I’ve enjoyed since my first legal beer drinking days, so this was nothing new. And it’s really not much of a beer, more akin to a cocktail if anything. The aroma is decidedly Clamato, with a tomatoesque, black pepper nose. It looks awfully strange in my glass, pinkish color with a really foamy pink cap with large bubbles. Flavor is mostly Clamato with the carbonation coming from the Budweiser. The tug-of-war of flavor is won by Clamato and it’s clearly better because of that. If you don’t like "bloody beers", you’ll no doubt really dislike this.

can, pinkish head with vegetable nose, mostly tomato v-8 flavor, not much else, these were better at the Texas Chili Parlor

This is a total disgrace to the legacy that is budweiser. Why would anyone want to put crap like clamato and lemon in one of the greatest beers to grace the face of the earth? Tastes like campbell’s tomato soup. The only positive with this is that it is better than Bud Light Chelada.