Joe's Famous Michelada

This is my husband's recipe for a michelada, a Mexican beer cocktail. He sampled many of them from almost all the Mexican restaurants here in town...and came up with his own way of making them. Now he doesn't even bother ordering them out anymore.

• Preparation Time: 5 mins
• Total Time: 5 mins
• Calories: 242 Calories

Ingredients

• ¼ teaspoon salt
• 1 lemon, juiced
• ½ teaspoon soy sauce
• 1 dash hot pepper sauce (such as Tabasco®), or to taste
• ice cubes
• ½ cup cold beer
• coarse salt for rim of mug, or as needed
• 1 ½ cups tomato and clam juice cocktail (such as Clamato®), or as needed

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Dip the rim of a chilled 1-pint mug or schooner into coarse salt, and fill the mug with ice cubes. Add 1/4 teaspoon of salt, lemon juice, hot pepper sauce, and soy sauce. Pour in the tomato and clam juice cocktail, top up the mug with beer, and stir gently. As you drink, you can keep topping up your mug with more beer.