Sotol, a spirit with a history that predates both tequila and mezcal by over 800 years, is made from the Dasylirion plant, also known as the desert spoon. Unlike agave spirits, sotol is primarily ...
The difference between the two spirits is that both are made from the agave plant, but tequila must use only 100% blue agave. It is not true that mezcals are by taste smoky, which many mezcal ...
Tequila, (and its sister spirit mezcal), can only be made in Mexico from Mexican agaves. Instead, the juice from these Australian plants will ultimately be turned into "Australian agave spirit".
community college students will use commercial-grade equipment to make alcoholic spirits from the increasingly popular agave plant, famous for its production of tequila and mezcal in Mexico.