Vetted Recipes

Michelada Especial

Ingredients

  • 1 lime, cut into 4 wedges
  • 2 tablespoons kosher salt, for rimming glasses
  • Ice cubes
  • 2 pinches chili powder
  • 2 teaspoons light brown sugar
  • 8 dashes green hot sauce (recommended: Jalapeno Tabasco hot sauce)
  • 2 (12-ounce) pints lager beer, chilled (recommended: Modelo Especial)

Instructions

  1. Chill 2 tall beer tumblers in the freezer. Put the salt into a shallow dish. Remove the glasses from the freezer and wet the rims using a wedge of lime. Dip the glass rims into the salt to cover. Add the lime wedges and ice into the glasses, then add a pinch of chili powder to each glass. Stir in 1 teaspoon of light brown sugar to each glass and 4 dashes of hot sauce. Top off with beer and serve immediately.

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