Agave Road Trip
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Agave Road Trip provides gringo bartenders with firsthand knowledge about heritage agave spirits from Mexico, including mezcal, raicilla, bacanora, and destilado de agave.
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Are Mezcal geeks ruining Mezcal? Part 2
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May 15, 2025 |
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Are Mezcal geeks ruining Mezcal? Part 1
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May 08, 2025 |
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Some agave can't be farmed
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May 01, 2025 |
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Gringx bartenders can save biodiversity
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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Corn as cultural heritage
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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The CRT is no longer the sole certifier for Tequila
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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Maguey and Madagascar
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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You pay more for Tequila
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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How do you differentiate different Tequilas?
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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Is Mezcal's moment over?
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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Puntas: Drop-dead delicious or just drop dead?
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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An American Distiller in Mexico
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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A Tale of Two USAIDs
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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The devils in the angel share
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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What do we call them when they’re not all agave spirits?
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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What’s the deal with Rusty Mezcal?
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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Making old ale from agave syrup!
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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The Secret Origin of Tequila Oro
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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Making Mezcal from the flowering agave
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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The ominous threat of Mezcal tariffs
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Jan 02, 2025 |
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Should we limit the limited-release Mezcals?
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Dec 26, 2024 |
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Why is Espadin the only Angustifolia in Oaxaca?
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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The 400 decisions of Tequila
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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The day celebrating the people who work at bars
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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Another way to bring the desert to your bar
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Nov 28, 2024 |
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A different approach to additive-free Tequila
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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The physical cost of pre-industrial Mezcal
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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Can culture and commerce coexist in a bottle?
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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What happens when they stop calling it Tequila?
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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When did “smooth” become a dirty word?
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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The argument for pairing chocolate with Mezcal
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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Is Mezcal More Authentic Than Tequila?
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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There Is No Traditional Mezcal in the Marketplace
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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The World’s Most Environmentally Sustainable Mezcal Brand
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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The Argument for Pairing Tinned Fish With Mezcal
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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The Most Important Tequila of the Century
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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Does the Tequila in Your Margarita Matter?
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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The Politics of Mezcal
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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Did Salsa Change Gringos or Did Gringos Change Salsa?
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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De-caf, Non-fat Tequila
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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Mezcal Is Smoky Tequila
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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Uncertified Mezcal Can Kill You
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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Mezcal Flights or Mezcal Cocktails?
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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Tequila Cristalino: Threat or Menace?
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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Beverage Testing Institute Does Not Say Mezcal Is the Purest Distilled Alcohol
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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Horse Piss, Arm Pits, and Other Mezcal Additives
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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When Did Tequila Stop Being Fun?
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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Yes, There Can Be Additives in Mezcal
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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A $30 Chicken Dinner Is a Bargain
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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You Can’t Recycle That Bottle
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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Making Beer With Agave (And Sotol)
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May 30, 2024 |
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Cocktails as Cultural Bridges
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May 23, 2024 |
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What Is the Connection Between Mezcal, Mexican Food, and Museums?
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May 16, 2024 |
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Maybe That 12-Year-Old Agave Is Only Five Years Old…
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May 09, 2024 |
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Mezcal Moto-Rally!
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May 02, 2024 |
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What Can Cultivated Meat Teach Us About Mezcal?
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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Are the Best Bottles of the Year the Best Bets for Your Bar?
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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This Bottle Protects Jaguars
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Are Agave Straws Really Better Than Plastic?
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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How to Pair Mezcal With Food
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Why Brands Don’t Certify Their Mezcal
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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The Secret Origin of Bull-skin Fermentation in Mezcal
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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All Bino Mexcal Is Mezcal but Not All Mezcal Is Bino Mexcal
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Rowan Jacobsen Went to Mexico and All I Got Was This Podcast
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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Food Journalism Is Still Journalism
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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The Problem With the InsideHook Article About 2023 Tequila Sales
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Why Don’t More Mezcaleros Own Their Brands?
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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The Problem With the Washington Post Article About Mezcal
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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How to Take Your Pet on a Road Trip to Mexico
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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Leave Tequila Alone!
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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The Cultural Heritage of Agave Syrup
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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Wild vs Farmed: Last Pulque Standing
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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What’s Wrong With Your Stomach
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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There Is No Coffee in Mexico
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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The Cult of Hospitality
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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A Game of Chicken With the Mexican Police
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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How Not to Bring Mezcal Back From Mexico
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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Giving Tuesday
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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The Beautiful Inconsistencies of Coffee and Mezcal
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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How to Welcome the Mezcal Curious
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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The Church of Our Lady of Tequila
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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Mexican Hand Gestures in a Mezcaleria
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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Should You Worry About Plastic in Your Water-Bottle Mezcal?
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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The Best Mezcals for Mixing, According to Agave Road Trip
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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The CRT Loses Their Tequila Monopoly
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Espresso Martinis Are a Lie
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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How the Hijuelos Killed Tequila
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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The Contagious Patience of Mezcal
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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Fast Mezcal and Slow Bars
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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The Bartender’s Guide to Skittles
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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Chill Filtering: Threat or Menace
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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Mezcalarrhea: Some People Think it’s Funny, But it’s Really Hot and Runny
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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The Differences Between Tequila and Whiskey
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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Chocolate and Coffee Are Antioxidants, but What Does That Mean?
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Tequila is Doing Fine but Mexican Beer is Killing it
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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Spirits as Landscapes
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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Rules of the Road Trip
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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Every Agave Landscape Tells a Bigger Story
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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Never Use Espadin Mezcal to Make Cocktails
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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Some Drinks Don't Travel -- Pulque with the Hadza
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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1% for the Bats
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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To Keep Community Viable, You Have to Save the Water
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Can Plastic Save the World?
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May 25, 2023 |
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What Do You Do With the Tiny Sips of Mezcal Left in Your Bottles?
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May 18, 2023 |
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The Ever-Popular Tortured-Agave Effect
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May 11, 2023 |
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Let's Talk About Maguey Salmiana
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May 04, 2023 |
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Regenerative Agriculture? Biodynamic Agriculture? Climate-Smart Agriculture!
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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What Oaxaca’s New Mezcal Tax Means for You
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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The Cow/Mezcal Connection
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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Mezcal Sales in 2022 Were… Terrific? Daunting? What, Exactly?
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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A Fistful of Pesos
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Do You Prefer to Drink Your Calories?
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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Can Alcohol Warm the Body? Or Cool it Down?
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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Can Drinking Snake-Venom Mezcal Kill You?
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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Chocolate and Coffee Road Trip!
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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Can Mezcal Help You Sleep?
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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What Does it Mean to Support Mezcal Communities?
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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This Car Runs on Mezcal – Agave as Biofuel
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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Do Consumers Really Care if Mezcal is Sustainable? (Sustainability Miniseries, Part 3 of 3)
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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Is Anything Sustainable? (Sustainability Miniseries, Part 2 of 3)
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Is Mezcal Sustainable? (Sustainability Miniseries, Part 1 of 3)
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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Mezcal is a Nine Million-Liter Monster!
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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The Rainbow of Problems with Food Coloring
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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What’s the Craft in Craft Spirits?
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Dec 29, 2022 |
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What’s the Big Deal about Bats and Agave?
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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Can Coffee Supercharge Mezcal?
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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Agave Syrup: Threat or Menace?
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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What Makes Mezcal Taste like Mezcal?
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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Mezcal: The Aphrodisiac that Makes you Strong as a Rhino
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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The Long, Long History of Aging Mezcal in a Barrel
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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Why Lou Says “Agave Spirits” Instead of “Mezcal”
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Activated Charcoal Makes your Cocktails Black, Your Teeth White, and Your Poop Firm
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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What You Don’t Know About Pulque, Part Two
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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What You Don't Know About Pulque, Part One
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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Hernán Cortés Declares Pulque was Always for the People
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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The Secret Origin of Rick Bayless
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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Your Perfect Thanksgiving in Mexico City!
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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Babies or Booze? Agaves Can’t Make Both… or Can They?
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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Tequila and the Myth of the Low-Glycemic Index
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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Is the Mezcal Worm Cultural Heritage or Crass Marketing?
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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Mezcal Cristalino: Threat or Menace?
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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Does Bottling Mezcal and Tequila in Mexico Save Jobs?
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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Is Mezcal Pechuga Cultural Heritage or Crass Marketing?
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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Why Does Mezcal in the USA Have a Higher Minimum ABV than Mexico?
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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Does Mezcal Help You Hydrate?
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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Historically, Mezcal is Made with Steam
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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Mezcal Can Be Made From (A Lot) More Than 40 Kinds of Agave
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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How Much Alcohol is in Mezcal?
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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How Dangerous is Mexico?
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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Who Put the "Vino" in the "Vino de Mezcal"?
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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Healthy Living Through Mezcal
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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The Value of Spirits Awards Competitions
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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Attack of the 50-foot Chava
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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Chava's Incredible Shrinking Brain
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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Another Drink Towards Oblivion
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May 26, 2022 |
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Are We Drinking Ourselves Into Extinction?
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May 19, 2022 |
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The Effects of Alcohol and Your Shrinking Brain
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May 12, 2022 |
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How Many Dogs Can You Bring Back from Mexico?
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May 05, 2022 |
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A Small Amount of Alcohol a Day May Make You Healthier?
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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When You Capon the Quiote Do You Get Better Mezcal?
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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Travel Mexico -- You'll Love it to Death!
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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And Sometimes, Even When It's Certified, It Still Ain't Mezcal
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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Can Mezcal be Medicine?
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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Immature Agave Makes Better Mezcal
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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Super Sugar Tequila: Fortified with Four Essential Additives
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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You Think Tequila is Better if you Pay More for It
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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It Ain't Mezcal if it Ain't Certified
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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Tequila: The Perfect Hangover Cure (Cocktail MD Special)
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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Mallory O'Meara Drinks like a Woman
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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Is Texas Messing with Sotol?
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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What Exactly is Artisanal about Artesenal Mezcal?
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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There's Mezcal for Geeks, and There's Mezcal that Sells
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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You Got Your Pulque in my Tepache
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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Give That Juice Another Sniff....
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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The Perfect Recipe for Mezcal
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Jan 06, 2022 |
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Puntas and Colas and the Heart of Distillation
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Dec 30, 2021 |
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The Many Different Flavors of Mezcal
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Dec 23, 2021 |
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Can You be Allergic to Mezcal?
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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Zero-proof, Non-alcoholic Mexican Cocktails
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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Should Mezcaleros Sign Exclusive Contracts?
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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The Best Gifts for the Biggest Mezcal Fans
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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Liquid nitrogen cocktails! What could possibly go wrong? (Cocktail MD special)
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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Everyone Talks about Mezcal, but No One Drinks It
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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I Brought it Back from Mexico! Can I Serve it in My Bar?
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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A Paloma to Die For? A “Cocktail MD” Special
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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Tequila Sunrise and Mexican Moonshine
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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Better Soil makes Better Mezcal
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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All Tequila used to be Mezcal, but now Mezcal is becoming Tequila
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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Chava's Hair Malfunction
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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Mezcal on Ice? Hey. that's Nice!
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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It's All About the Water
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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I Know Art When I Drink It
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Sep 09, 2021 |
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The Secret Origin of Mezcal
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Sep 02, 2021 |
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How to Start Your Own Mezcal Brand
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Aug 26, 2021 |
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You Can’t Judge a Mezcal by its Bottle
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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The Best Mezcal is the Most Highly Awarded Mezcal
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Aug 12, 2021 |
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Welcome to Agave Road Trip
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Aug 05, 2021 |
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The Golden Age of Mezcal
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Aug 05, 2021 |
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What is Going on with Bacanora?
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Jul 29, 2021 |
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Mezcal: The Pick-me-up Alcohol that Makes You Fertile but Doesn’t Cause a Hangover
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Jul 22, 2021 |
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They Make Mezcal in California! Or Do They?
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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Does Mezcal Change When Aged in Glass?
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Jul 08, 2021 |
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The Intersection Between Wine and Mezcal
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Jul 01, 2021 |
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What Does It Mean, that My Mezcal is an Ensamble?
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Jun 24, 2021 |
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There’s Something about Kendall Jenner in a Huipil
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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I've Got a Theory About Long-growth Agaves
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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Maybe Syrup Isn't All That Simple
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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The Birth and Death of the CRM (NOM mini-series #4 of 3)
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May 23, 2021 |
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If You Can't Ferment Raw Agave, How Do We Have Pulque?
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May 20, 2021 |
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Why are So Many Mezcaleros Named Don?
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May 13, 2021 |
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The World’s Most Expensive Bottle of Mezcal!
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May 06, 2021 |
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If They Kill NOM 199, will That Kill Uncertified Agave Spirits? (NOM mini-series #3 of 3)
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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The Clay Copita: Authentic Hipster Culture?
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Apr 29, 2021 |
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Who Decides if it’s Mezcal? (NOM mini-series #2 of 3)
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Apr 23, 2021 |
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The Diffuser: Nature’s Answer to Better Tequila
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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What's in a NOM? (NOM Miniseries #1 of 3)
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Apr 16, 2021 |
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Drink More Wild Agave
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Apr 15, 2021 |
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River Rocks, Mountain Rocks, Volcanic Rocks: Mezcal Rocks
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Apr 08, 2021 |
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What's Smoke Got to Do with It?
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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Looks Like Mexico, Tastes Like India
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Mar 25, 2021 |
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To Monte Alban Mezcal, with Love
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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Tequila vs Mezcal: The Rematch
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Mar 11, 2021 |
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The Only Correct Way to Drink Mezcal
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Mar 04, 2021 |
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You Can Master the Strange Secrets of Mezcal!
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Feb 25, 2021 |
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MEZcal or meZCAL? How Do You Pronounce It?
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Feb 18, 2021 |
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How Many Agaves Does it Take to Make a Bottle of Mezcal?
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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"Milpa" is Spanish for "Regenerative Viticulture"
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Feb 04, 2021 |
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Mezcal 2099: The Future of Agave
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Jan 28, 2021 |
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Certified Tacos
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Jan 21, 2021 |
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Another Freaking Gringo Looking for Jabali…
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Jan 14, 2021 |
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Modern Bar Cart take-over
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Jan 07, 2021 |
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The Mezcal with the Chicken — Pechuga!
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Dec 31, 2020 |
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Did Mezcal Save Fiestas, or Did Fiestas Save Mezcal?
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Dec 24, 2020 |
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Mezcal Cocktails, Cocktail Mezcal
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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Bad Mezcal
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Dec 10, 2020 |
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Who Says It's Not Mezcal?
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Dec 03, 2020 |
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Heads, Hearts, and Tails: Where You Cut Matters
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Nov 24, 2020 |
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How to Drive in Mexico Without Getting Killed - S2E11
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Nov 19, 2020 |
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The Difference Between Tequila and Mezcal - S2E10
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Nov 12, 2020 |
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Mercado Day in Mexico - S2E9
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Nov 05, 2020 |
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How Much Can I Bring Back? - S2E8
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Oct 29, 2020 |
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How to Drink Spirits Neat - S2E7
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Oct 22, 2020 |
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15 Days to Distill - S2E6
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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What’s Heritage, Anyway? - S2E5
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Oct 08, 2020 |
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No Tequila is Mezcal - S2E4
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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Gringo Guero - S2E3
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Sep 24, 2020 |
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The Arnold Palmer of Pulque - S2E2
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Sep 17, 2020 |
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What's in My Tequila? - S2E1
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Sep 10, 2020 |
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Perlas Before Swine - S1E9
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Aug 06, 2020 |
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Hasta Pronto! - S1E8
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Jun 17, 2020 |
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Oh, Wood You? - S1E7
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Jun 17, 2020 |
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Be Still My Heart - S1E6
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Jun 16, 2020 |
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Fantastic Fermentation - S1E5
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Jun 16, 2020 |
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The Grind - S1E4
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Jun 16, 2020 |
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Get Roasted - S1E3
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Jun 16, 2020 |
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What is Agave? - S1E2
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Jun 16, 2020 |
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Jump In! - S1E1
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Jun 09, 2020 |
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Coming Soon, from HRN: Agave Road Trip
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Jun 08, 2020 |