I love drinking an iced cold Michelada on a hot, summer day. I love how they’re savory but still really refreshing. Our Michelada recipe is super simple and this whole thing comes together in under 10 minutes. This is one of my favorite cocktails to enjoy during the summer.
How to Make a Refreshing Michelada
- Rub a lime wedge around the rim of each glass and dip the rim in the chile-lime seasoning. We love using this brand, but any chile-lime seasoning is delicious with this recipe!
- Combine tomato juice, Worcestershire sauce, hot sauce, and soy sauce in a measuring cup and stir together.
- Fill glasses with ice and add half the tomato juice mixture in each glass.
- Top each glass with beer and stir together.
- Garnish each drink with a lime wedge. Serve.
FAQs
It’s a tomato juice based beer cocktail that usually includes a few other ingredients such as soy sauce, Worcestershire sauce, hot sauce, and lime juice (which we replaced with our lime wedge garnish). The rim is usually a chile-lime seasoning.
Yes! Clamato (a tomato and clam juice blend) is commonly swapped in for the tomato juice, which gives the drink a pleasant and naturally ocean-briny flavor.
The tomato juice mixture can be made 3 days ahead of time and stored in the refrigerator until ready to use. When ready, just rim the glasses, add ice, pour the base, top with beer and serve!
Although this drink has a small amount of hot sauce, it’s not really spicy. It has a slightly bright kick, but if you don’t like spicy at all you can omit the hot sauce. You can also add more hot sauce to the tomato base for a bigger kick. I also like garnishing the drink with sliced jalapeno!
I can’t stress just how easy this Michelada recipe is to make! It’s perfect for a hot summer day and can be scaled up and down so easily! I love pairing this recipe with Carne Asada Fries, our Slow Cooker Pickled Pulled Pork Sandwiches, our Popeyes Chicken Sandwich Recipe, and our Carne Asada Torta! Enjoy!
Michelada
INGREDIENTS
- 4 lime wedges, divided
- ¼ cup chile-lime seasoning such as Tajin
- 1/2 cup tomato juice or Clamato
- 2 ½ teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
- 2 1/2 teaspoons hot sauce
- 1 teaspoon low sodium soy sauce
- 24 ounces Mexican beer
INSTRUCTIONS
- Rub a lime wedge around the rim of each glass and dip the rim in the chile-lime seasoning.
- Combine tomato juice, Worcestershire sauce, hot sauce, and soy sauce in a measuring cup and stir together.
- Fill glasses with ice and add half the tomato juice mixture in each glass.
- Top each glass with beer and stir together.
- Garnish each drink with a lime wedge. Serve.
NOTES
- Clamato (a tomato and clam juice blend) is commonly swapped in for the tomato juice, which gives the drink a pleasant and naturally ocean-briny flavor.
- The tomato juice mixture can be made 3 days ahead of time and stored in the refrigerator until ready to use. When ready, just rim the glasses, add ice, pour the base, top with beer and serve!
- Although this drink has a small amount of hot sauce, it’s not really spicy. It has a slightly bright kick, but if you don’t like spicy at all you can omit the hot sauce. You can also add more hot sauce to the tomato base for a bigger kick. I also like garnishing the drink with sliced jalapeno!
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Can you add some horseradish to this drink?
Definitely!
This was yum!
This was delicious thanks
Interesting recipe, I’ll have to give this one a try.
In the picture the drink is red, but the recipe doesn’t list tomato juice. Am I missing something?
Yes! This is the beer cocktail I’ve been trying to remember the name of for ages now! Thank you so much for posting this!
I’ve been so totally into beer cocktails lately– I can’t wait to try this! It looks perfect for a summer BBQ.
And good luck with your juice fast! I’m totally envious of people who can accomplish fasts. I turn into a huge, cranky bitch so I have officially forbade myself from giving up solid food. Still, I’m jealous of those with better willpower and less hypoglycemia than I…
my fav, also the red eye. anything that has bloody mary qualities. nom nom when I actually had a michelada in mexico it was very different then our perception of it :) pretty interesting
I am not a vodka drinker so I never venture out and order a bloody mary, but this sounds like an amazing homemade version made with beer. I am in! Making Micheladas for sunday brunch tomorrow. Thank you!
my boyfriend got me into this drink and now i’m hooked. i’ve never tried it with soy sauce, can’t wait to try it! Viva la Mexico!
this is my favorite brunch drink ever!
Keep on chugging (no pun intended) – you’ll feel great when you’re done! Surprisingly it will teach you to eat only when you’re hungry (foreign concept, I know).
On the other hand, any tomato-y alcoholic beverage has a special place in my heart. I can’t wait to make these (tomorrow morning… shhh!).
Micheladas count as a juice cleanse, right? ;)
xoxo,
mon amy
I’ve heard some really bad stuff about juice cleanses and juice diets, hope you’ve done your research and that you are ready to stop if your body tells you to! Just because it works for someone else doesn’t mean it’s right for your body so listen to it and it’ll guide you through things just fine :) This drink sounds so tasty but I’m far too lazy to go through all that work just for two drinks hah.
Thank you for letting the world know our wonderful gastronomy! Micheladas are a pride of our country! And they remind me that in a few days, I’ll be in the best beach of México, Puerto Vallarta, (and my hometown <3), drinking one or probably more of these! Mexican holidays, here I come!!! Just a little note, here in México, instead of honey, we use lime juice for the rimming thing. And with Pacifico beer is like heaven! ;)
Hi Stefania! Yea, I have honey as the “rim juice” (that sounds bad, ha!) and not the typical lime juice bc my rimming salt has paprika and cayenne in it and I think the touch of sweetness really balances the spicy, salty rim. Have a great time back home!!
Not a fan of juice cleanses (I too prefer to chew!), but more power to you for “muddling through”! My preference is juice + one healthy meal/day (with healthy fats like avocado or coconut oil) for a cleanse. Thank you for the gourmet drink suggestion to get the weekend started ;)
This is one of my most favorite cocktails. Ever. I’m pretty sure I’m not tough enough to handle a juice cleanse. But I could surely handle a diet that included its fair share of these saucy little numbers …
You are doing amazing on your juice cleanse. Better you than me :) And this drink…I am thinking bloody mary, but better!