The oldest story about the start of the michelada goes back to the 1940s. A Mexican general, Augusto Michel, liked his beer with spicy salsa and claimed he was the original inventor of the drink. Another story says that the Michelada was invented by a man named Michel Ésper at the Club Deportivo Potosino in San Luís Potosí, a town in east-central Mexico. He is said to have drunk his beer with lime, salt, ice and a straw, in a special cup called a chabela.