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Podcast: Agave Road Trip
Episode: Historically, Mezcal is Made with Steam
Description: Read almost any of those “differences between tequila and mezcal” articles, and they’ll tell you that tequila steams their agave, mezcal roasts it underground. But in the cover to this week’s episode, you can see Chava and me sitting in the skeleton of a century-old boiler at an even older mezcal fabrica in Guanajuato. So when exactly does tradition start? We get the purists hot under the collar in this episode of Agave Road Trip!Find extra photos and related links at agaveroadtrip.comHRN is home to transformative exchanges about food. Our 35+ member-su...