Budweiser Chelada
Budweiser & Clamato con sal y limon. Enjoy the best of both worlds: a refreshing Budweiser and the unique flavor of Clamato. Drink a Red One, ready to go, or use your favorite ingredients to make it yours, wherever, whenever.
1.3
289 reviews
St. Louis, United States
Community reviews
Shared can at RBHD Bjørnøy February 2015. Murky orange body with no head. Tomato juice and sellery dominates the nose and the mouth with a chili warmth. Not bad as a diluted Bloody Mary type drink. A real stretch as a beer though.
Shared bottle at RB/HD 07.02.15.Hazy organge. No head or lacing. Aroma of Bloody Mary and tomato soup. Awful taste of salty tomato soup and cold vegetable soup. Chili in aftertaste.
Shared can at local tasting. Pours murky orange, no head. Aroma of tomato and berries. Thick oily vegetable mouthfeel, strange bad taste experience, grows as the light chilli burn sets in at the long finish.
Shared 25 fl.oz. can at local tasting. Cloudy orange to red colour, hardly any head. Aroma of cheap ketchup and stale seawater ponds. Sickly flavour of stale ketchup, salt and spices. Undrinkable.
Dagens tredje på rbhd-samlinga feb-15, og en (heldigvis) unik opplevelse. Lukter og smaker tynn tomatjuice/tomatsuppe/gazpacho med salt og deilig chili afterburn. Takk til Odd Gunnar som delte denne spesielle drikken med oss. Etter hvert likte jeg den faktisk, bare jeg ikke tenkte på den som øl.
25 oz can. (Martin’s) Winchester, VA.
Hazy red colour with no head.
Tomato soup (clamato) in the aroma.
The flavour is tomato soup, mild saltiness, citrusy notes and some spices. Like a light version of Bloody Mary. This is irresistible. There must something wrong with me as I like this A LOT! So good.
And it’s commemorating my rating #7000.
Not as good as the bud light version. It would probably mix well with a bloody mary, who knows...
"more wretched clam, tomato, and crappy macro lager aroma and taste. weird salmon color, horrible mouthfeel and flavor, and finish...causes major acid reflux. Not even close to being able to finish half of this.
Um, really. Pours red with a white head. Aroma of malts and vegetables. Taste is malts and grain upfront then vegetables. Won’t drink again.
I initially set out to find the Bud Light version, but this is all the store had., I normally don’t care for heavy/dark beer, so there’s that. Pours red (I swirled the can before pouring) with a thin head that quickly disappates., and a bit of an oil slick of what I can assume is clam broth. Aroma is excessively sweet, distant sea and a bit of broccoli/cabbage. Flavor is pale watery beer at the front, tomatoes, seafood broth, celery seed, lime, salt, and a bit of vague grass in the finish, followed by some dull peppery heat. Not great, but not nearly as bad as I expected.
Can. I hate myself for this. Pours a pinkish brown that should never be in a beer. Smells and tastes like bloody mary mix, and just doesn’t sit like a beer. Bleh.
Can: I had this back to back with Bud *Light* Chelada, obviously I was in a pseudo sadistic mood. I was thinking about cutting my inner thighs or self-asphyxiation, but I decided on two tall boys of Chelada instead. This is marginally (& I mean MARGINALLY) better than the light version for one reason. The taste actually contains a *little* (read: minuscule) amount of Budweiser flavor to it. You know, that corny, grainy lager that we all bag on. Yeah, it’s a fucking savior here. Anything to distract from that nasty tomato vegetal clam juice abomination. Make no mistake, this is almost equally as shitty. But the fact that you can taste a tiny bit of lager under the tomato & salt bukkake is enough to grant an extra tenth of a point. It’s also less orange-y & more pink than the light version. Whatever.
Can. Red orange colour with a pinkish head. Aroma is malt, tomato, salt, spices. Flavour is malt, tomato, salt, peppar, spices. horrible beer.
So its December in Florida and I’m fairly broke, but I wanted to keep my monthly rating streak going, so I stopped off at the Racetrac for one of these for $2.49, after having tried the Bud Light version a few weeks ago and the picante version a few months ago. After sorta almost liking the Bud Light version, I didn’t think this would be too bad but it reminded me more of the gross picante version. It seemed like this one too had a little spiciness to it. Usual components of lager and clamato, but also vomit. Like the others, its best to just drink from the can so you don’t have to smell or in this case, look at it. This one stood out from the others because it had chunks, bits of tomato it seemed, which added to the vomit effect because it just looked like the kind of pink digested whatever vomit that was so common back in 2nd grade. I drank this quickly, choking it down, but gave up before finishing it and drainpoured the last third of the glass. Then I took the kids to see Santa Claus riding on a fire truck in 80 deg weather. I’m Florida man.
Clamato in the States ?? Why am I finding this here in the land of bloody Mary, and not in Canada where Caesars are made with this awesome clam-tomato concoction ? I have always loved mixing Clamato juice and older beers (some outdated) together. As much as I am not s Bud fan, this is pretty decent. In Vegas. Cloudy red with a fizzy head. Looks like it should, watered-down tomato juice. Spicy pepper nose with some tomato notes and hints of celery. Watery taste, but still decent tomatoes. Not enough clam though. I don’t mind this for a beer mix.
Truly awful. Amongst the worst garbage juice I’ve ever tasted. Think shitty watered down bloody mary.
Can, 24oz. It pours a murky reddish brown body with a minimal sized off-white head. The aroma is pretty awful I think, with tomato, tex-mex fastfood and lime. Spiced, salty flavor with lots of tomato. Full body, soft carbonation and some spicy burn. Rather awful, could never finish a can of it. 131101
Can from El Cerrito. Pink, hazy pour with no head. Salty as hell. Chef Boyardee Spaghetti-O’s aroma. Crappy tomato, metal, tuna, clam, and celery. Fishy, watery flavor. Crappy canned tomato, tuna, metal, and clam juice. Really damn salty.
Hazy blood red/orange color; Light to medium body; Aroma and flavor of salty tomato juice, herbs, & spice; Please tell me this was a joke - right??
I'm sampling this on the tour in Ft. Collins. With each drink I feel the redneck coming through. I feel what seems to be a mullet growing in the back and I'm getting the urge to hit my dog.
Artificial orange color when poured, last couple ounces thick & red. Opaque, vaguely unpleasant looking. Had a V-8 smell, spicy and skunky. Tasted like horrible V-8 gone wrong. Sweet and salty. Palate was Rotten old tomatoes, chili-powder, gross mouth-feel: Thick/Filmy. The scariest thing about it was that it tasted just a bit better than a regular Budweiser. Part of a blind taste test.
Serious Review Time as this is unfortunately coming to alberta. 3 oz sample from ABI guy. Kind of a ketchuppy red colour with a bubbly white head. Aroma is canned tomato paste and tabasco. Taste is dominated by a super carbonated peppery wasteland devoid of anything palatable. Absolutely putrid.
Big can poured into pint glass. Pink color with white head. Aroma of light canned tomato sauce, salt, clams and the slightest bit of spice. Taste is cold salty tomato juice with clam flavoring. Light body, heavy carbonation with a aftertaste that won’t die. Wow after one sip I was done. Guess I don’t like Chelada, so I don’t like this. The first beer I will never drink again.
24 oz. can. Pours a fizzy, minimal, very short lived off white head, over a light red (SRM 15) cloudy body.....nose is tomato....taste is tomato, clam, light salt, lime, with a light chile heat.....mouth feel is light, carbonation makes a fizzy sensation. This is to beer, as 7-UP is to beer. That is to say unrelated. This concoction, thought of as something to have on a hot Utah day, is quite pleasant. So are iced tea and lemonade. To call this a beer, well, no. It is a cocktail. Rating as a beer not as a beverage. BJCP 4/1/8/3/3
Not interesting for beer geek of course but can spend a nice time watching movies with snacks and reminds me University years.
Canned @ home picked up at 287 Liquor Fort Collins and poured into my Crooked Staved sniftered. Pours a hazy pink lemonade appearance with no head and kind of weird lacing. Chili powder, celery, V8, homemade chili aroma. Not really offensive but not very beery either. Salty, tomato juice, chili powder, veggie, a bit juicy, spicy flavor. I can’t finish more than a few ounces and I can’t imagine how much I would have to be paid to drink a full 24 canned beer.
I don’t understand the reviewers here.....are you comparing this to Orval or Ayinger or Lagunitas? Get real folks.....review it in the context of what it is.....and that’s a first beverage after working or hunting hard plus or minus being followed by an evening consuming your favorite quaff. Even better, have one or two in the morning after a looooong night out and you’ll thank me profusely. I was skeptical before I tried it but have since converted a pile of would-be haters into pleasantly surprised Chelada enthusiasts. It’s like a Bloody Mary but nowhere near as thick or juicy which is exactly what I don’t like about them. Try it without prejudice....and you’ll love it!
This is the only bud product I can stomach. The clamato flavor really comes through. Better to make your own chelada but this is decent on a hot day, especially if you have no craft options at the mini-mart
Pours a fizzy pink grapefruit color. Smells like a salty V8. Gross taste of V8. I could choke this down if I had to but I wouldn’t enjoy it.
Can. Orange reddish tomato soup color. Smells salty and tomatoey . Taste like a fizzy v8. Would be good for brunch if u like bloody Mary’s. overall I can’t drink this like a beer. Good try though