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Do You Prefer to Drink Your Calories?
Episode 135
How many calories do you consume daily? How many do you consume through alcohol? Agave Road Trip’s Chief Medical Correspondent, Dr. Ryan Aycock, tell…
3 years, 5 months ago
Can Alcohol Warm the Body? Or Cool it Down?
Episode 134
Alcohol is nature’s great temperature regulator — it warms you up when you’re cold, and cools you down when you’re hot! Or … does it? Agave Road Trip…
3 years, 5 months ago
Can Drinking Snake-Venom Mezcal Kill You?
Episode 133
If drinking mezcal that has snake venom in it killed you right away, there’d be a lot of dead people on the floor of the mercados around Mexico. But …
3 years, 5 months ago
Chocolate and Coffee Road Trip!
Episode 132
Lou and Chava got to go on a week-long trip through Tabasco and Chiapas …. visiting cacao and coffee farms … with Dark Matter Coffee and Rick Bayless…
3 years, 5 months ago
Can Mezcal Help You Sleep?
Episode 131
Having trouble sleeping, pal? Think twice before you reach for that bottle of mezcal. Or tequila. Or whiskey. Or whatever. It’s a nightcap episode of…
3 years, 6 months ago
What Does it Mean to Support Mezcal Communities?
Episode 130
It’s not uncommon when a new tequila or mezcal launches that buyers will ask the brand what they are doing to support the community from which they’r…
3 years, 6 months ago
This Car Runs on Mezcal – Agave as Biofuel
Episode 129
There’s a project down in Brazil that’s investigating agave as a source of biofuel. It’s funded and organized by Shell, and is a sort of extension of…
3 years, 6 months ago
Do Consumers Really Care if Mezcal is Sustainable? (Sustainability Miniseries, Part 3 of 3)
Episode 128
This series on sustainability was sparked by all the industry talk about consumers only supporting sustainable mezcals. And the IWSR released a repor…
3 years, 6 months ago
Is Anything Sustainable? (Sustainability Miniseries, Part 2 of 3)
Episode 127
Last week we bickered about whether or not mezcal is sustainable. But maybe the bigger and more important question is, is anything sustainable? We g…
3 years, 7 months ago
Is Mezcal Sustainable? (Sustainability Miniseries, Part 1 of 3)
Episode 126
There’s a lot of industry talk about only supporting sustainable mezcals. But … none of the brands are sustainable. Or, at least, not one of them tha…
3 years, 7 months ago