Bud Light Chelada
Enjoy the best of both worlds: a refreshing Bud Light and the unique flavor of Clamato. Drink a Red One, ready to go or use your favorite ingredients to make it yours - wherever, whenever!
1.2
338 reviews
St. Louis, United States
Community reviews
Free tick.
The appearance was a muddy red color with no head or lace.
The aroma had burnt tomato, burnt grass, salt and burnt hay.
The flavor had rotten cheese and tomato with some basil and burnt grass. Aftertaste, hmmmmm...I think the crotch out of a dead horse would taste better. There wasn’t a finish.
The palate was somewhere between light and medium bodied with no sort of sessionability about it. Carbonation was overly harsh. The ABV felt appropriate, about the only thing that seemed right.
Overall, you know when someone says joke’s on you, I think the bigger joke is on the guy/gal who wrote the recipe for this beverage. Haha, are we laughing yet?
Yeah this gets a bad rap for what it is in the beer world, but it is in its own unique league and there aren’t many competitors. It’s cloudy reddish-pink, has sickly tomato and spicy pepper with something resembling bud beer at the core, but you know what...? It pleases like a cheese-filled action movie and it is damn refreshing ice cold on a 100 plus farenheit day here in the SJ valley.
Oh dang. What I won’t do for a rating. This is some truly vile swill. I suppose if you like bloody mary’s this wouldn’t be so bad. Unfortunately for me, I don’t. Strong tomato and lime aroma. No beeriness to be found. Pours a sickly deep pink with no head. Tomato juice flavor with a hefty dose of salt water. Lightly spicy finish is the only decent thing about this train wreck. Drain pour for sure.
I love this beer.i put clamato juice in my beer all the time,but this seems to have a little more zip to it and a lot handier for the cooler and I don’t need to pour it into a glass and mix. Love it, but I got it in Quebec, haven’t found it in Ontario yet. Hope it’s a big seller because I also loved the Bacon Ceaser and they quite making it. Love ,love, love the Chelada, yummy.
Can at Snowbird Ski Area. Reddish body with big head. Nose peppery. Taste of tomato juice and vodka. A terrible beer.
25 oz can. Ocassion, I hate my job.
Pours a red, tomato juice color. Aggressive pour, lots of head. No retention, some lacing at the tip top.
Aroma is of tomato, and salt. The head had good aromas of salt, lime and chili that the beer does not.
Taste is tomato and spicy. That’s about all. Not so much lime, yeah some salt. But it’s actually tasty. Like a very light bloody mary.
Mouthfeel is medium, and also watery. It tastes like it should be heavier in body and higher ABV, only 4.2%, really? Has a pleasing tingling burn after the swalow.
Overall, it’s not bad. I probably will not drink it again, but I’ll try more in the style.
I’ve read some of the reviews here, and seriously. It’s...not...that...bad....My first couple of sips were terrible too, because I wasn’t quite expecting it to be so tomato. But my palate adjusted, and boom, I’m drinking it and liking it. Open your minds, give it another try.
Update! I’m lowering my rating a little, because the tomato in this is very heavy. 25 oz of this is too much. Still pretty good!
Pours a golden reddish yellow. Aromas of grass, malts, and a touch of briney tomato. Flavor is briney, tomato, cheap lager...but I love me some red beer.
Poured from a 25 OZ can into a pint glass. The appearance is a cloudy pink color with no head. The aroma is tomatoes. The taste is mostly salty tomato. Not good.
Looks gross. Tastes like a cheap chelada. If you're unsure, don't buy it. Personally, I like it but it ain't for everyone
Heinous, putrid aroma. Weak pinkish, scary appearance. Ocean water, funk and clam taste.. light spice. It’s so bad.
This stuff is awful...but I was expecting worse. +++ Sampled from a 16 oz can this beer poured a fizzy and murky red-pink color with a large foamy orange head that faded quickly and left no lacing. The aroma was bad marinara, pepper and clam. The flavor was fizzy watered down tomato juice with strong ground pepper and a bit of clam. Regrettably long finish. Light body. Awful.
Backlog from Brony Bottle Share at Travlr’s. This is just absolutely horrible. I would rather drink dishwater.
25 oz. can from Quicky Mart. Pours pink/orange with no head. Aroma of tomato juice and spices. Taste was tomato juice and sweet.
25 fl. oz. can bought from a gas station in Santa Fe and shared with aperi, many thanks for drinking half of it! Pours opaque red with no head and salt sticking to the sides of the glass. Aroma is salty tomato juice and lime. Flavor is quite disgusting too. Tomato juice, loads of salt and some lime. No hint of beer, but that’s hardly a surprise as bud light doesn’t deserve the moniker. I had to think hard to find one attribute to raise above 1.
From a can. Pours clear pale red with no head. Tastes like tomato juice, light beer, some V8. Light body and low carbonation. Smells like watery tomato juice and light beer, mild citrus.
Actually smells pretty good...like a light v8....cool red color like red grapefruit juice...taste is much better than I expected...tomato about 75% of it...slightly sweet...no beer or hops taste...surprisingly good and drinkable..smooth..want to hate it but can’t
Tomato taste. Not much of a beer taste not even pale lager. Tried a small sample of this just to rate it. Don’t need to try any more.
Ok...this isn’t that bad. A nice tomato flavour...albeit it fake more than likely. A bit of a spicy kick at the end. A typical bud light flavour. I don’t have to have it again...but it’s better than bud light in that it has more flavour.
A guy at work had a friend drop a bunch of these by his house. The story goes that a semi wrecked on interstate 77 and this guy picked up a bunch of these. Refrigerated 25oz. can poured into a glass. Nice hazy translucent orange with very small off-white head. Aroma is tomato juice, clams, and dog vomit. Medium/light body, medium/light carbonation, and very little small-bubble lacing. Taste is tomato juice, clams salty, some lime, and hints of bud light. This is the worst tasting concoction I have ever tried, I would have given this a negative number for taste if it was an option, I am really glad I did not pay money for this. I think I had 2 oz. of this, but am not sure, my first drain pour. I actually had to run a fair amount water down the drain to get rid of the smell. I am not sure if it is the worst smelling, I had a mead which may have been worse. Awful.
A weird Bloody Mary mix in the shape of a beer. It’s tomato juice with a bit of alcohol and some odd funk in the back. There is worse, but not much.
I’d give this a 0 for the palate but I cannot.
I prefer this over the regular Bud Chelada version. Maybe the Bud version with beechwood tang makes it better as well as the lighter body if whatever beer is in it? It pours a slightly less pink than Bud Chelada with less fussil foam (the stuff that makes thick beer "heads").
If you have ’acquired the chelada/michelada taste’ and want to try Budweiser’s version, try this one. It is briney, tomatoey, hint of lime, a bit salty. And with lower ABV which I doubt is still at Bud Light’s 4.2 ABV. It’s light for what it is.
Can, purchases essentially on a dare. Sweet hay and candy aroma. Cloudy pink appearance. Sweet tomato, slight vomit hints, salt, lime. Quote from my uncle, with whom I tried this: "smells like a can of fish bait that’s been sitting out in the sun for 8 hours." Thin and watery. Ugh.
355ml can. Cloudy orangey red colour with no head. Gross film left in the glass. Tangy tomato nose with a whiff of beer underneath. Taste has tomato, tangy, a little spice. Lots of carbonation. Not good.
I’m pretty sure this was nearly the worst beer I’ve ever had. Except for the regular bud chelada I had next. The clamato aroma does a good job at hiding the bud aroma, but too bad I hate clamato as well. Nasty. Thanks to MrChopin - your villainy at bringing this deserves recognition.
Can at the DC Tasting shared by MrChopin, thanks? Hazy orange with off-white head. Aromas of stewed tomato. Tastes of tomato, vomit. Light body with a dry finish.
Pours unclear filthy amber . Smell is rotten tomato . Taste is tomatojuice, with a bitter aspect and a spicy finish . Light mouthfeel . it had a radler aspect to it as well . I saw people puking over this . Thats why it turned a want . Its pretty damn bad , but not groce as in I got to puke off of it ...
Tasted on 1/26/15 from a 25oz can purchased in Oklahoma, big thanks to Alex for picking this up for me. Pours hazy red with a thin, fizzy white head that quickly disappears. The nose is sweet stewed tomato, some pepper spice, and lime. The flavor is actually not terrible, but a sweeter, less spicy version of good cheladas I have had in the past. The body is water light with fizzy, soda-like carbonation, and a medium sweet tomato and lightly spicy finish.
First you have to ask yourself if you enjoy tomato based drinks. If not, this will not be your favorite if you don’t like to experiment. If you do enjoy tomato based drinks then I highly recommend this one.
The Micheladas you get in bars or make at home will be a little more red. The red color in this drink is a little off putting and it just looks like it would come from a big factory brewer. The taste however is a different story. The carbonation is just right. The clamato and beer go together perfectly like wood to a BBQ, instead of processed briquettes.
These Micheladas are becoming very popular in the Southwest and have been extremely popular in Mexico (which is where it was invented) for a long time. This si also awesome for adding it as a base for your own Michelada. I personally like to add key limes and a little hot sauce.
I had this drink in Mexico and at first I thought my cousin was crazy for adding tomato to beer. It was like the biggest sin I could think of. Once I tasted this bud light chelda, it was like the heavens parted and angles sang in my ears.
473 ml can. Thanks rosenbergh. Pours a cloudy orange colour without a head. Loads of sediment, meaning tomato in this case. Aroma of tomato juice and green cooked vegetables. Flavour of very strong tomato juice notes, spiciness, green vegetable notes and salt. It’s extremely hard to recognize this as a beer. Definitely something I haven’t tasted before. It’s like a soup, but it’s beer.
50 cl can
Pours murky red color with no head. Aroma pof tomatoes, herbs and sweet fruits. Tastes pretty much like a tomato soup with chili, salt and lemon fruits. Quite unique.
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