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5 from 13 votes
Alcohol-Free Michelada

A delicious and refreshing cocktail that forgoes the beer and uses alcohol-free hop tea.

Course: beverage
Cuisine: alcohol-free, Mexican, Southwestern
Keyword: hop tea, lime, tajin, vegetable juice
Servings: 4 servings
Author: HelenFern
Ingredients
  • 24 oz vegetable juice cocktail (like V-8)
  • 1/4 cup fresh lime juice (about 2 large)
  • 2 Tablespoons jalapeño brine
  • 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
  • 1 teaspoon lemon pepper
  • 2 Tablespoons tajin powder (or other chili, lime salt powder)
  • 24 oz carbonated hop tea
  • limes and jalapeño rings to garnish
Instructions
  1. Start with the base. You can make a pitcher of it and mix the cocktail as you go. This base will work with beer or hop tea.

  2. Mix the vegetable juice with the lime, jalapeño brine (the liquid from a can of pickled peppers), salt, lemon pepper and 1 teaspoon tajin.

  3. Blend it together with an immersion blender and refrigerate at least three hours.

  4. When it's time to enjoy the drink, rub the rim of a 16 oz. glass with a lime wedge, then coat it with tajin powder. Drop the lime into the glass.

  5. Pour the glass half way up with the tomato base and top it off with some hop tea. Garnish with a lime wedge and jalapeño ring. 

    Put your feet up and enjoy!

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