Name: Michelada
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 12.5 ml Lime juice; 2 dash Red hot pepper sauce; 5 ml Worcestershire sauce; 150 ml Dunkel/black lager

Ingredients

5/12 fl oz

Lime juice (freshly squeezed)

2 dash

Hot pepper sauce (red, vinegar-based e.g. Tabasco)

1/6 fl oz

Worcestershire sauce

5 fl oz

Dunkel / dark / black lager

Method

Select and pre-chill a COLLINS GLASS.

Prepare garnish of coarse sea salt rim - salt the rim of a chilled beer mug by rubbing it with a lime wedge and dipping rim in the coarse salt. Save the lime wedge to squeeze over and drop into finished drink..

POUR ingredients into ice-filled glass.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Michelada contains 267 calories

Alcohol content:

0.4 standard drinks
4.22% alc./vol. (8.44° proof)
6.2 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Worcestershire sauce — Fish
Worcestershire sauce, Dunkel / dark / black lager — Cereals containing gluten

History

Loosely translates as "my cold beer" (mi means 'my', chela is Mexican slang for pint/beer) and ada from helada is cold. This drink, which is popular in Mexico, is thought to have originated there sometime in the 1940s.

There are many variations with Micheladas served with and without ice. It is usually served with light Mexican lager, although we prefer a darker beer. Even the spicy ingredients vary with Worcestershire sauce often omitted, but the hot pepper sauce remains a constant. In Mexico City itself, a Michelada almost always refers to something much simpler than this: 1 shot fresh lime juice in a glass with a salted rim, into which a light lager is poured.

Comments & Discussion

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Peter Barth 2y

5ml Worcestershire sauce seems way too much. the savoury tastes permeates this drink far more than necessary.
Tomato juice eventually ballanced it out. I would strongly suggest to start with few dashes worcestershire sauce and than up to taste instead of the full 5ml!