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Luchador Recipe

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Luchador
Difficulty: Easy | Total Time: Under 5 mins | Active Time: | Makes: 1 drink

This spicy beer cocktail will give you the strength to execute the high-flying moves and pile drives of the greatest luchadores (Mexican wrestlers), or at least the strength to watch them on TV.

What to buy: Clamato is a spicy tomato drink spiked with clam juice. Look for it in the juice aisle of the grocery store or in Latin markets.

Game plan: Keep a beer mug nice and frosty in your freezer for when you get the urge for an ice-cold Luchador.

This recipe was featured as part of both our Cinco de Mayo cocktail menu and our Tailgating Recipes photo gallery.

INGREDIENTS
  • 1 (12-ounce) pilsner-style Mexican beer, such as Modelo
  • 2 ounces Clamato juice
  • 1 ounce lime juice
  • 3 dashes hot sauce
  • Pinch cumin seeds
  • Pinch freshly ground black pepper
  • Pinch kosher salt
  • Ice
INSTRUCTIONS
  1. Pour beer into a frozen pint glass.
  2. Combine remaining ingredients in a cocktail shaker filled halfway with ice. Shake vigorously, strain over beer, stir, and serve.
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COMMENT

  • Replace the clamato with tomato, avoid the msg in Clamato!

  • I have these on Sundays and didn't know they had a name....I just called them bloody beers.

  • Yeah, i find it hard to distinguish between this and a michelada as others have said

    its the same exact thing under a different label which is not known at all

  • FWW, the piledriver (and in fact any move where the wrestler lands on his or her head) is strictly prohibited in lucha libre and grounds for a disqualification. The drink sounds like a nice variation of the michelada. I'll have to add a dash of cumin next time I make those.

  • Beer and Clam' ......a regular drink here in British Columbia. No lime and hot sauce however.

  • I actually tried this last night, nah, not my cup of tea, something about the old school days in Kansas and 'red' beer and hazy nights kept haunting me; but, still to each his/her own, as long as it's not the so called "king of bottled beers"

  • I drink a michelada whenever it is really hot or I want to drink a crappy, warm PBR. Just add tapatio, lime juice and bit of salt. It is awesome and easy to make even a few drinks later.

  • i can handle a regular modelo and might try it with tomato... something about clamato in this recipe that makes me cringe, that's all

  • I appreciate how everyone has already complained about renaming something and calling it your own.

    Aklein - not a negro, but just your standard old modelo especial. And adding tomato juice (or clamato) is popular in several cultures as a "red beer"

  • most of this sounds intriguing, though it's really a michelado without the Jugo Maggi and Worsterchire... but Clamato? over my dead bones would I do that to an innocent Negro Modelo... like bobinnola said, maybe salt, I'll add maybe lime and hot sauce......Clamato!?!?!?!

  • I've heard the spiel about how these are great and refreshing and someone even espoused that it's a wonderful "hair of the dog" choice for hangover weekends... but, honestly this drink made me want to die. I will stop with salt in the mexican beer, tomato and other savoury products belong in bloodys...

  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelada