Drinks Cocktails Beer Cocktails Meet Your New Favorite Michelada Be the first to rate & review! Made with smoky chipotle hot sauce and muddled fresh blackberry, this Michelada riff combines savory notes with fresh fruity flavors and fizzy American lager for a refreshing summer cocktail. By Lucy Simon Lucy Simon Lucy Simon is a New York-based wine, spirits, and food writer has been with Food & Wine since the spring of 2021. Food & Wine's Editorial Guidelines Updated on July 20, 2023 Tested by Food & Wine Test Kitchen Tested by Food & Wine Test Kitchen Recipes published by Food & Wine are rigorously tested by the culinary professionals at the Dotdash Meredith Food Studios in order to empower home cooks to enjoy being in the kitchen and preparing meals they will love. Our expert culinary team tests and retests each recipe using equipment and ingredients found in home kitchens to ensure that every recipe is delicious and works for cooks at home every single time. Meet the Food & Wine Test Kitchen Rate PRINT Share Trending Videos Photo: Jennifer Causey / Food Styling by Emily Nabors Hall / Prop Styling by Audrey Davis Total Time: 5 mins Servings: 1 serving This summery drink blends two styles of cocktails, a michelada and a smash. This cocktail is made with beer, lime juice, and hot sauce, the classic components of a michelada, a bright and fresh Mexican cocktail, but also features muddled fresh fruit, the key component to a smash. Tangy blackberries, smoky chipotle hot sauce and freshly squeezed lime juice are combined in a glass before being topped with an American-style lager. Built directly in the highball glass it's served in, the Blackberry Chipotle Michelada is surprisingly complex given its few ingredients and simple preparation— d eliciousness really can be achieved in under a minute! The first step of this recipe, muddling the berries is totally key to the end result. To extract the sweet-and-sour, fragrant, juicy notes of the blackberries, use a rough-bottomed muddler and smash the berries in the bottom of the glass. The blunt handle of a wooden spoon will work as a muddler in a pinch, too. Choosing a heavy-bottomed highball glass as compared to something more thin and delicate will help you use enough pressure to break down the berries. The fresh flavors of the black berries pair perfectly with the deep, savory notes of chipotle hot sauce. Micheladas are typically made with more fresh, vinegar-based hot sauces, but leaning into the flavor profile of more smokey chipotle adds depth and complexity to this drink. Two teaspoons is enough to have a bit of heat, peppery taste, and ample smoky flavor without overpowering the fresh ingredients. A big squeeze of lime juice helps amplify the flavor of both the blackberries and the chipotle — think of acid here as a helping season the cocktail in the way you might add a squeeze of lemon to a soup to help brighten it up. Top this drink with a light, spritz-y lager to round everything out and add some refreshing effervescence. Be sure to give it a stir before drinking to combine all the delicious ingredients. Cheers! Ingredients 5 blackberries 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice (from 1 lime) 2 teaspoons Chipotle hot sauce (such as Tia Lupita) 6 ounces lager Directions Muddle blackberries in a highball glass until lightly mashed, aromatic, and juicy, about 10 seconds. Add lime juice and hot sauce, and stir to combine. Fill glass with ice and beer. Stir until well combined, about 30 seconds, and serve Rate It Print