Is drinking beer with tomato juice a regional thing? I grew up in South Dakota, where if you ask for a red beer you'd get a glass of half draught beer/half tomato juice. (Maybe some olives floating in top as a bonus) Here in Ohio when I've asked for the same, I have to explain what I want and deal with looks of stunned horror as I guide the traumatized bartender through the process. Do you like beer mixed with tj, or Clamato, or Bloody Mary mix, (and if so, what part of the country do you hail from) or is it an abomination in your eyes?
I have run into several gentlemen here in Iowa that drink beer that way or with V8.
What a waste of perfectly good beer...
@Palindromeman depends on if you define Miller, Coors, Michelob, insert name of mass produced cheep beer here... as good beer. (LOL!)
Here in the Great White North, a beer with an ounce of clamato or tomato juice is called a "Red Eye", because of the red blotch it makes when pouring it into the beer head.
What's Clamato juice you ask? Seems it's a Canadian thing: tomato juice with a hint of clam flavouring. It's used to make a "Caesar", which is a variation on a Bloody Mary, invented in 1969 by a barman in Calgary.
I was in a hotel bar in Houston, and asked for a Caesar - they had no clue what it was. It then hit me it indeed was a regional (Canadian) thing.
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In FL we used to call those Red Bulls, or Swirl Pans ( at beach parties we would pour beer and tomato juice and a hoarde of hot spices into a pan and passit around).
Now we have Micheladas. Budweiser was the first that I recall to make a commercial ready to drink variant.
It may not be cold vodka and caviar, but it's a helluva lot more fun and affordable.
I don't drink anymore.
Never drank much.
Always hated beer.
quickly glances around and runs for cover
i am only reasing this for my enlightenment
Spicy V-8 and Budweiser....Breakfast of champions!!
I used to live in BG, back in the 80s, on Main St.
There was a bar near my apartment, wish I could remember the name, where I'd get a red beer.
Always had mine with tomato juice. Sunday nights were usually when I went in there. I'd have
a couple, go home, sleep like a baby. Never spent more than $3. Man, those were the days.
Howard's? They moved it across the street and built the new library on the former site. It's still going strong!
Christ in a sidecar, that is one of the strangest things I've ever heard!
Woah, I'd have them seperately. I'm intregued now. Never heard of this in the UK or Australia
Although I will admit I love going to Adelaide (yes, someone actually likes going to Adelaide) and asking for my Coopers beer to be rolled. One of those regional affectations, but I like it.
I prefer mine unrolled, cool that you know about that though
I can't imagine it in a good Aussie or British beer...pretty much needs to be a US yellow beer!
Like a Coors or Budweiser?
Sounds kinda icky to me.. but I'll try almost anything once...
Well, maybe twice - the second time to apologise.
I'm glad I read this because I thought I was a degenerate for drinking beer and Tomatojuice. Now I see I must be a degenerate for some other reason. Or, there may just be a lot of degenerates out there. Win-win either way.
God I hope so.
And you can keep it.
LOL
I'm not a fan, but red beer is a thing in the northwest as well.
Budweiser sold Clamato beer, and even the thought of it makes me dry heave..... (Virginia)
Is there Guinness Drought Extra Stout!?
@DZhukovin no clue, probably, though
And it may have already been said, but Budweiser actually produces it pre-mixed as "Chelada." Only way I'll drink Budweiser.