The One Ingredient Your Michelada Is Missing
VinePair
MAY 25, 2025
In its simplest form, a Michelada is a Mexican lager gussied up with hot sauce, lime juice, and salt. Theyre refreshing, spicy, salty, easy to make, and about as crowd-pleasing as beer cocktails get. While Micheladas may have become fairly commonplace in American drinking culture, bars have yet to embrace the drinks creative garnish potential. At a time when dolling up Martinis with fried chicken skin and putting octopus tentacles in Bloody Marys are both fair game, the Michelada has remained re
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