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Mezcal (/ m ɛ ˈ s k æ l / ⓘ, Latin American Spanish: ⓘ), sometimes spelled mescal, is a distilled alcoholic beverage made from any type of agave. Agaves or magueys are endemic to the Americas and found globally as ornamental plants.
Rượu đế is a distilled liquor from Vietnam, made of either glutinous or non-glutinous rice. It was formerly made illegally and is thus similar to moonshine. It is most typical of the Mekong Delta region of southwestern Vietnam (its equivalent in northern Vietnam is called rượu quốc lủi). Its strength varies, but is typically 40 ...
This is a list of national liquors.A national liquor is a distilled alcoholic beverage considered standard and respected in a given country. While the status of many such drinks may be informal, there is usually a consensus in a given country that a specific drink has national status or is the "most popular liquor" in a given nation.
Liquor portal Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. ... Pages in category "Mezcal" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
The other variety of "worm" in mezcal is the larva of a weevil known as picudo del agave, Scyphophorus acupunctatus, the agave snout weevil, that infests certain species of yucca and maguey. [2] They are not related to edible maguey worms. The weevil is a pest that can severely damage agave plants by eating the plant to death from the inside.
What Is Mezcal? Mezcal—derived from the Nahuatl word for “oven-cooked agave plant,” mexcalmetl—is defined as any agave-based liquor (including other popular spirits like raicilla and sotol ...
The company originally began in 2004 as an operation to import mezcal from Oaxaca, Mexico, across the border into Guatemala. [10] By 2006, the company established a formal brand, marketing itself as "Ilegal . " [ 11 ] In 2010, the company signed a United States distribution contract. [ 12 ]
For the most common distilled drinks, such as whisky (or whiskey) and vodka, the alcohol content is around 40%. The term hard liquor is used in North America to distinguish distilled drinks from undistilled ones (implicitly weaker). Brandy, gin, mezcal, rum, tequila, vodka, whisky (or wiskey), baijiu, shōchū and soju are examples of distilled ...