{"id":1571,"date":"2013-04-29T12:41:10","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T09:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/?p=1571"},"modified":"2021-09-22T13:59:24","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T10:59:24","slug":"michelada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/2013\/04\/29\/michelada\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/wp-uploads\/2013\/04\/IMGP1574_michelada_the_mexican_beer.jpg\" title=\"A pint of Michelada\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/wp-uploads\/2013\/04\/IMGP1574_michelada_the_mexican_beer.640.jpg\" alt=\"Michelada\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the good things that spring and summer are bringing to some of us is the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michelada\">Michelada<\/a>, or having a glass of beer the Mexican way. A friend of mine taught me this recipe back in the distant year of 2006 or 2007 and I preserved it, with a few tweaks to my liking.<\/p>\n<h3>Key ingredients<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>A big glass, a plate, and a sharp knife;<\/li>\n<li>500 ml of cold beer, preferably lager, not too strong (under 4.5 &#8211; 5% <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alcohol_by_volume\">ABV<\/a>); Corona is OK, too;<\/li>\n<li>some coarse sea salt;<\/li>\n<li>one lemon (or lime);<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tabasco_sauce\">Tabasco<\/a> sauce and\/or some spices of your choice;<\/li>\n<li>2-3 ice cubes (to keep the <em>Michelada<\/em> cool in the heat of the summer day).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Preparation<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Cut the lemon (or lime) in two and apply some of the juice to the rim of the glass.<\/li>\n<li>Pour a small circle of coarse sea salt on the plate, turn the glass upside down and briefly press its rim onto it. If done well, now there&#8217;ll be a tiny bit of sea salt on the rim of the glass. Reverse the glass again.<\/li>\n<li>Squeeze half of the lemon into the glass and add the ice.<\/li>\n<li>Drop a few drops of Tabasco sauce onto the ice. You can also add some other spices (if your stomach permits, of course) such as ground red chili peppers, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Slowly pour the cold beer until it almost reaches the edge of the glass. (Note: For the Michelada, best is to have as little foam as possible. If there&#8217;s foam and it rises abruptly to the top of the glass, it&#8217;ll wash out the sea salt &#8212; something which you&#8217;d like to avoid.)<\/li>\n<li>Cut another slice from the other half of the lemon and add it to the beer. Done! <!-- Voil\u00e0! The <em>bi\u00e8re \u00e0 la mexicaine<\/em> (as the French would probably say) --> This drink is best served on the terrace (or in the garden), with a book of your choice, or with friends. :-)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>*Important!*<\/strong> Do not expect do be able to do any serious work after having one or two Micheladas &#8212; so it is best to serve it late in the evening and not too often. :-) Also, you could prepare the Michelada with a low-alcohol, or even non-alcoholic beer, but of course the taste would not be the same.<\/p>\n<h3>Further reading<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michelada\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michelada<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jeffreymorgenthaler.com\/michelada\/\">https:\/\/jeffreymorgenthaler.com\/michelada\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the good things that spring and summer are bringing to some of us is the Michelada, or having a glass of beer the Mexican way. A friend of mine taught me this recipe back in the distant year of 2006 or 2007 and I preserved it, with a few tweaks to my liking.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-photo","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1571"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3075,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions\/3075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}