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Michelada

Recipe information

  • Yield

    serves 2

Ingredients

Kosher salt, for rimming the glasses
1 lime, quartered
1/2 cup Tomato Juice (above)
Hot sauce
1 Mexican beer, such as Bohemia, cold

Preparation

  1. Pour enough salt on a small plate to cover it. Rub the rims of two glasses with lime wedges and then dip each glass in the salt to coat the rims. To each glass add 1/4 cup tomato juice, a dash of hot sauce, and a few ice cubes. Squeeze a lime wedge into each glass and discard. Slowly pour in the beer, dividing it between the two glasses, and garnish with the remaining lime wedges.

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