Budweiser Chelada?

While out grocery shopping the other day I ran across the new "Budweiser Chelada". I instantly did a double take, rubbed my eyes, and took a picture as evidence. I enjoy a good hangover curing "red-beer" as much as the next redneck. I however would never use clamato, I just don't enjoy clam broth as much as some I suppose. Have people really become so lazy that they can't mix their own drink? Or is this just another desperate product offering from the national breweries? It's certainly not scoring big numbers when rated by some beer advocacies, but maybe their necks are just too pink to thoroughly appreciate it?

Zymurgist in Training

I've wanted to get into home brewing for a while. The influence of my many home brewing friends has only increased my desire. I had plans to start last year, and brew some hard cider to hand out for the holidays. So I finally cracked and went out and bought a home brew kit, and decided to brew that hard cider for this holiday season. I shopped around for the best starter cider I could. I was disappointed in the organic, all natural ciders available at the local specialty markets. So I decided to go to the source, and purchased apple cider from the apple orchard near my house. I compared many cider recipes online and in some home brewing handbooks. Eventually found one that came with good reviews. Two weeks ago I prepped the cider and set it up to begin fermenting. I checked on the cider regularly and last Thu it was ready to bottle. Darci and I took a couple hours to bottle all the cider up and clean the equipment. Over the weekend I shared the cider with some friends/family, and got good reviews. The cider will improve with age, so it'll be very exciting to see how it matures. Darci and I are going to make some custom labels for the bottled cider and start handing it out in a few weeks. I'm very excited. I finished reading "The Complete Joy of Home brewing 3rd Ed.". Seems to be a great book on brewing, covering basic through advance home brewing techniques. My brewing friends claim the book to be a great resource. Based off that I decided to start working through the book, starting with brewing a batch of beer utilizing a beer kit. I picked up two Coopers beer kits from my local home brew store: a Dark Ale, and a Bavarian Lager. I'm very excited at the low cost involved with brewing from these kits. At $12 per kit, plus an extra $3 for the necessary corn sugar, it runs approx $0.28/12 beer ($15.00 / (640 oz./12 oz.) = $0.28125). I plan to brew up these two kits sometime this week. A few weeks later they'll be ready to tasting. If I keep up a regular brewing routine, it might be time to invest in some cornelius kegs and build a kegorator.