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The reason to ID every drinker
Episode 162
I was watching an episode of John Oliver’s “Last Week Tonight” about gas-station drugs and it felt to me like, while never mentioned explicitly, the …
1 day, 15 hours ago
Plastic and glass in the age of Mezcal
Episode 161
“This brings us to the question of glass versus food-grade plastic, because both are used at José Alberto's palenque, and food-grade plastic is certa…
1 week, 1 day ago
The ten categories of ancestral mezcal
Episode 160
Mezcal can get very confusing for the average consumer. You’ve got regular Mezcal, Mezcal Artesenal, and Mezcal Ancestral. And then there are variati…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
A tahona doesn’t make your Tequila authentic
Episode 159
There was a time (about a week ago) when posting to social-media that you would only drink “additive-free” was a way to say, I know Tequila. Now it f…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
The Raicilla episode featuring El Acabo and Asil
Episode 158
“You just do it by the old way. It's not difficult. It's not fast, but it's not difficult. If we make it fast, you have to correct a lot of things. W…
4 weeks, 1 day ago
Gasoline & electricity: The science of Mezcal
Episode 157
Before science was invented, things were confusing. And, to be fair, for several decades into the birth of science, it was still confusing. Don’t bel…
1 month ago
The profound justification for Raicilla
Episode 156
Okay, for real, this episode is only vaguely about Raicilla. It’s a bit more about profound justifications — that’s a reference to a quote from my gu…
1 month, 1 week ago
The great rise of industrial Mezcal
Episode 155
I recorded a few weeks ago an episode with Marissa Paragano in which we talked about the 2025 numbers from Comercam. But we got so distracted by over…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Palomo Mezcal: It’s better not to count
“Before, only white people or gringos used to sell Mezcal, and the consumer was used to only buying it from those people. But now the consumer is cha…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
It’s a Tequila dust-up of epic proportions!
Episode 154
I don’t know, maybe I’m just behind the curve on this one. But I had a conversation with Marcado 28 Tequilero Bruno Barba and, during that conversati…
1 month, 3 weeks ago