The Crew's Brew of the Week (Big Ten Week 2) - Bud Light Chelada

photo courtesy of Esquire.com

The disgusting performance last Saturday surely deserves a disgusting beer.  So here you have it, Budweiser's 'Chelada.

For me, it's highly appropriate after the Gopher/Badger tilt.  You get golden Bud Light mixed with red Clamato, two products I've consumed on their own and enjoyed in their own way.   At first thought, you might think that flavoring up a watery Bud Light with some salty, savory clam and tomato juice might just work.  Much like you might think mixing up Golden Gophers with the Red Badgers might make for a great football game (it has in Brew's recent past).  But sadly, sometimes these combos just don't work out.

Esquire.com states this beverage "looks like grapefruit juice, and tastes like the worst Bloody Mary you've ever had." Sounds kinda like   That sounds like a challenge to me, as I've had some absolutely abhorrent Bloody Marys.  Really though, if this faux beer is that bad, Anheiser-Busch should consider advertising this as a healthy beer, lo-cal and loaded with tomato-ey vitamins and minerals.  That or just scrapping it altogether, since we can pretty much make this concoction up on our own at home.  It's pretty much as pointless as 'Bud Light Lime'. 

And if we can't muster a better showing versus Purdon't this week, we might have to switch this weekly post's title to Crew's Liquor of the Week, which makes far less sense, given our head coach's nickname.  Come on Gophs - don't let that happen!

'What we learned' post coming late tomorrow night.  Drink up Gopher fans.