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To Keep Community Viable, You Have to Save the Water
Episode 145
Dan Saladino has traveled the world documenting the stories of our most endangered foods. He would argue that we need to protect them, for our future…
3 years, 2 months ago
Can Plastic Save the World?
Episode 144
Yeah yeah yeah. I know. Plastic is killing the world. But it’s hardly the only thing. And in the case of ecoSpirits, it’s maybe also saving the world…
3 years, 3 months ago
What Do You Do With the Tiny Sips of Mezcal Left in Your Bottles?
Episode 143
There’s this concept of the infinity bottle in other spirits – where you take the last bits of favorite bottles, pour them together over time to make…
3 years, 3 months ago
The Ever-Popular Tortured-Agave Effect
Episode 142
There’s an idea that mezcal made with wild agave is more delicious, because the agave lived in a hostile environment. But in the world of pulque, the…
3 years, 3 months ago
Let's Talk About Maguey Salmiana
Episode 141
Chava says this is the first of a series of episodes where we take a close-up look at specific agaves. I'm not as confident that this works. But, hey…
3 years, 3 months ago
Regenerative Agriculture? Biodynamic Agriculture? Climate-Smart Agriculture!
Episode 140
There are so many different approaches to farming these days, and so many different terms that, from the outside, feel like they mean the same thing.…
3 years, 4 months ago
What Oaxaca’s New Mezcal Tax Means for You
Episode 139
The average consumer doesn’t understand how the established taxes on mezcal in Mexico affect the producers, who pay a VAT of 16% plus a separate tax …
3 years, 4 months ago
The Cow/Mezcal Connection
Episode 138
Cows, goats, sheep — it’s not at all unusual to see livestock roaming around fields of agave in rural Mexico, especially up north. And it’s such a ha…
3 years, 4 months ago
Mezcal Sales in 2022 Were… Terrific? Daunting? What, Exactly?
Episode 137
The Distilled Spirits Council of the US released their 2022 report detailing who sold what, how that changed from the previous year, and suggesting w…
3 years, 4 months ago
A Fistful of Pesos
Episode 136
We’ve had any number of conversations about what it means to pay a mezcaler@ fairly. But a better question is, once you know the fair price, how do y…
3 years, 4 months ago