Suero is a Mexican beverage made from lime juice, sparkling water, ice, and often a pinch of salt, served in a salt-rimmed glass called escarchado. The term suero also refers to intravenous hydrating fluids in Mexican hospitals, while the bar version is a sugar-free, refreshing nonalcoholic cocktail. Suero serves as a popular hangover cure and can function as hangover prevention. Variations include a beer-based version sometimes called rusa, michelada, or chelada in different regions. The drink is inexpensive, easy to prepare, visually cocktail-like, and hydrating without added sugar.
If you go to a hospital in Mexico and get a suero, you can expect to be hooked up to an IV of hydrating fluids. If you order a suero at a restaurant or bar, you'll get something very different: a delicious, refreshing nonalcoholic cocktail consisting of lime juice and sparkling water (and sometimes a pinch of salt) in a glass filled with ice, with a rim that is "escarchado," which literally translates to "frosted" but refers to a salt-rimmed glass.
The suero is a popular hangover cure in Mexico, but for me, it's a hangover prevention, and it's become my cocktail of choice. "It's a water margarita!" I explained to my friends who looked at mine, curious, when we gathered from our various flights at the airport bar in San José del Cabo on a recent trip during the hottest time of year to the south tip of Baja California.
"Or a water !" I said, referring to the beer "cocktail," that is the same as a suero, except with beer instead of soda water. In Oaxaca, sometimes a suero is made of beer instead of water, and some people refer to what I call a michelada as a chelada, but that's another story, and one you can read about .
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