The recipe

How to make it

1Rub the rim of a big mug or glass with lime and dip it in coarse salt.
2Fill halfway with ice.
3Add the lime juice, Worcestershire and hot sauce (and a few drops of Maggi, if you have it).
4Fill with beer and stir just to mix.

Garnish: A salted rim.

Bayless’s amounts for the seasonings are “about” and “to taste”.

The ratio

1 : 6

In parts, a Michelada is 1 lime and 6 beer. Change one part and you have a cousin; the closest are below.

Lime · 1Beer · 6

Find the Michelada on the ratio map →

Beer → Zero proof

Cinderella

2¾ : 2 : 1 : 2¾

Beer → Zero proof

Lemon, Lime and Bitters

1 : 10

Beer → Zero proof

Virgin Mary

10 : 1

Beer → Zero proof

Shirley Temple

1 : 1¼ : 22

Alabama Slammer — Amaretto, Southern Comfort and sloe gin stirred over ice with a splash of lemon: sweet, fruity and nutty, a college-bar favorite.
Bay Breeze — Vodka with cranberry and pineapple juice: a Sea Breeze with pineapple in place of grapefruit.
Bloody Mary — Vodka, tomato and lemon, seasoned to taste with Worcestershire, Tabasco, celery salt and pepper. Savory and spicy.
Blue Lagoon — Vodka, blue curaçao and lime topped with lemon-lime soda: electric blue, sweet-tart and fizzy.
Cuba Libre — Rum and cola with lime, which is the difference between this and a plain rum and Coke.
Dark ’n’ Stormy — Ginger beer with dark rum floated on top. Spicy, sweet and moody.

Estimated per drink, as served

Calories

≈ 171

Sugar

≈ 1 g

Strength

≈ 3.8%

Std. drinks

≈ 1

Beer ≈ 156Lime juice ≈ 16 How we estimate