Budweiser Chelada
Anheuser-Busch InBev USA in St. Louis, Missouri, United States 🇺🇸
Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Vegetable Regular|
Score
3.07
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
25 ounce can into pint glass, canned on 2/24/2018. Pours moderately murky/cloudy reddish orange/amber color with a minimal foamy off white head with poor retention, that reduces to nothing pretty quickly. No lacing on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation and clinging bubbles on the glass. Okay appearance. Aromas of tomato juice, lime, salt, garlic, onion, celery, chili pepper, peppercorn, brown sugar, cracker, and white bread; with light notes of clams, vinegar, and herbal/spice earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance and complexity of lime, clamato, salt, and moderate pale malt notes; with solid strrength. Taste of big tomato juice, lime, salt, garlic, onion, celery, chili pepper, peppercorn, brown sugar, cracker, and white bread; with light notes of clams, vinegar, and herbal/spice earthiness. Mild herbal bitterness and peppery spiciness on the finish. Lingering notes of tomato juice, lime, salt, garlic, onion, celery, chili pepper, peppercorn, brown sugar, cracker, white bread, and herbal/spice earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Great complexity, robustness, and balance of lime, clamato, salt, and moderate pale malt flavors; great malt/bitter/spiciness balance, and no cloying flavors after the finish. Lightly increasing dryness from lingering bitter/spiciness. Medium-high carbonation and medium body; with a very smooth, moderately bready/grainy, fairly crisp, and lightly sticky/creamy tomato mouthfeel that is fantastic. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 5%. Lightly increasing pleasant lingering pepper heat through the glass. Overall this is a delicious fruit/spice/vegetable beer. All around nice complexity, robustness, and balance of lime, clamato, salt, and moderate pale malt flavors; very smooth, crisp, and refreshing to drink with the mildly bitter/spicy finish. This is the best one in this style I have had. Was even better than the bud light version, very similar but with more clean malt presence. Most other cheladas I've had were too heavy on tomato juice/body. This is perfect balance of Budweiser and Clamato flavors; with plenty of malt presence for the style. A very enjoyable offering, and outstanding style example.
Scopey (25061) reviewed Budweiser Chelada from Anheuser-Busch InBev USA 9 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2
A big dirty 24fl oz can from a random liquor store in Houston. It pours bright pink - read with minimal head. The aroma is very savoury, loads of tomato, salty, dull spice and green veg. The taste is sweet - spicy, wishy washy tomato juice, something meaty, salt water, some spice and savoury vibe with a sweet, tangy tomato finish. Light - medium body and fine, prickly. I wanted to like this infamous beer, but it engaged my gag reflex. Pretty rotten stuff.
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 1 | Flavor - 1 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 0.5
A little more terrible than the light version, mostly because the budweiser is actually more prominent through the sickly taste of clamato. Thanks again to MrChopin - this one goes out to you. Tall can o’ love.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2
Can at the DC Tasting shared by MrChopin, thanks? Hazy orange with off-white head. Aromas of citrus, tomato. Tastes of tomato, vomit.
Travlr (30181) reviewed Budweiser Chelada from Anheuser-Busch InBev USA 10 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 1
Can, totally the fault of MrChopin, I hate you. Hazy pink color, white head. Aroma of raw clams dipped in bloody marys. Taste is similar. Woof.
Kraddel (15810) reviewed Budweiser Chelada from Anheuser-Busch InBev USA 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Pours light , rather unclear orange / blonde . Smell is tomato . Taste is bitter , tomato , with a wattery aspect to it . Aftertaste is spiced up tomato . i dont know . I dont like tomato juice - as a alcohol free beverage - to begin with . Yet I love tomato’s . This taste like tomato’s ... Can’t hate it .. Even though I good know its fake and poor quality . I dont know ...
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 1.5
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.
Sigmund (14545) reviewed Budweiser Chelada from Anheuser-Busch InBev USA 10 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 1 | Flavor - 1 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 0.5
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.