Mezcal
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Mezcal, sometimes spelled mescal, is a distilled alcoholic beverage made from any type of agave.
Bottles at a factory in Teotitlán del Valle, Oaxaca
A "Huichol still", a modified Filipino-type still with a suspended internal distillate collector. It was used by the Huichol people for making sotol (c. 1898).
A cantaro jar, made from barro negro pottery, used for serving mezcal
A typical maguey landscape
Pulque
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Pulque, occasionally known as octli or agave wine, is an alcoholic beverage made from the fermented sap of the agave plant. It is traditional in central Mexico, where it has been produced for millenni
Mezcal
…which has almost 200 species. Mezcal is made from over 30 Agave species, varieties, and subvarieties. Native fermented drinks from agave plants, such as pulque existed before the arrival of the Spanish. Mezcal is made from the heart of the agave plant, called the piña. The most widely consumed form of mezcal…
Bottle of unflavored pulque with bamboo cap
Close up of a maguey plant
Depiction of the goddess Mayahuel
Codex Mendoza, an early 16th-century manuscript, showing Aztec elders and pulque in a vessel (lower center)