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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.
Mezcal worms. A mezcal worm is an insect larva found in some types of mezcal produced in Oaxaca, Mexico. The larva is a red maguey worm, the caterpillar of the Comadia redtenbacheri moth, usually called chinicuil or gusano rojo ("red worm"). The red worm is typically considered tastier than a white maguey worm. [1]
Mescal agave, alternative name of the plant, Agave parryi; Mescal bean, alternative name of the plant, Dermatophyllum; Mescal, a Coahuiltecan tribe; Mescal, a character in the 1924 film The Heritage of the Desert played by Bebe Daniels
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 ...
Pulque is a milk-colored, somewhat viscous liquid that produces a light foam. It is made by fermenting the sap of certain types of maguey (agave) plants. In contrast, mezcal is made from the cooked heart of certain agave plants, and tequila is made all or mostly from the blue agave.
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Pulque, tequila, mezcal Bacanora is an agave -derived liquor made in the Mexican state of Sonora . The distillation of Bacanora was illegal until 1992 despite being bootlegged by vinateros for many generations.
This technology and the knowledge of liquor production were acquired by the indigenous peoples who worked in the coconut plantations. They were then used to distill native drinks, resulting in the mezcal and the sotol. [2] The beverage was illegal in Mexico until 1994, and it was granted a denomination of origin (DO) in 2002. [1]