No. 14Pickle Beers & Beer Cocktails
Pickle Chelada
Salt rim, lots of lime, plenty of ice. A michelada minus the sauce.
A Pickle Chelada is a Mexican-style chelada, beer over ice with plenty of lime juice and a salted rim, plus a splash of dill pickle brine. It has no hot sauce or tomato, so it drinks like a salty, sour beer limeade. Choose it when you want the michelada feel without the spice.
21+Updated
Brine2/52 of 5
HeatNonenone
StrengthLow
- Glass
- beer mug
- Method
- Built in the glass
- Time
- 3 min
- Makes
- 1 drink
Ingredients
Make it for
Units
Amounts for 1, in ounces.
- 12 oz Mexican lager (ice cold)
- 1½ oz fresh lime juice (about 1½ limes)
- ¾ oz dill pickle brine (chilled)
- 1 tbsp coarse salt (for the rim)
- 1 lime wedge (for the rim and garnish)
- 1 dill pickle spear (for garnish)
- Glass
- beer mug
- Rim
- salt
- Garnish
- lime wedge and pickle spear
How to make it
- Wet the rim of a beer mug with the lime wedge.
- Dip the rim in coarse salt.
- Fill the mug with ice.
- Add the lime juice and pickle brine.
- Garnish with a lime wedge and a pickle spear.
- Pour in the lager, topping up as you drink.
Bar tips
- Use coarse or flaky salt on the rim; fine table salt tastes harsh and clumps.
- The brine is salty too, so salt only the outside of the rim.
Make it your own
- For a tomato-tinged chelada, add 2 oz of clam-tomato juice or tomato juice.
Drink responsibly. This one is for adults of legal drinking age. Want it without the booze? The zero-proof drinks are just as briny.
Full recipe: dillin.org/recipes/pickle-chelada
