When I was a kid, you couldn’t pay me to drink a root beer. Something about the smell, which seemed to have a lot in common with the spoons of sticky medicine my mom tried to shove down my throat when ...

Late one afternoon in the fall of 1985, I was sitting alone at a table inside a giant coffee cup two doors down from the Music Machine on Pico Boulevard in West Los Angeles when the waitress brought ...

The Chuper michelada La Chupería. The drink's origin is the stuff of culinary urban legend. (Mariah Tauger/Los Angeles Times) The first time I experienced the revelation of a michelada cocktail, a ...

The Michelada is a quintessential beer cocktail. Hell, I’d go so far as to call it the best beer cocktail. The mix of hot sauce, lime, salt, and light lager beer just works. It’s amazingly refreshing ...

The ice-cold cocktail is delicious in its simplest form — and it’s also endlessly customizable. By Rebekah Peppler A classic Mexican beer-based cocktail, the deeply chilled, lightly effervescent ...

Mambo Seafood is taking on the mightier Michelob in a beer brawl. The fight began in 2003 when the local seafood and Mexican restaurant chain filed a trademark application for its Mambo Michelada — a ...

The first time I experienced the revelation of a michelada cocktail, a work mate had just handed me an icy mug filled with lager, lime and savory sauces. It was the summer of 2002 in Mexico City, and ...