Artisanal Process of Making Mezcal Broken Down

Observe the artisanal process of making mezcal broken down into 5 key steps. What exactly does it mean to call the process "artisanal"? This video will answer that question with vivid certainty.
From harvesting by hand, to trimming the agaves, to the earth oven horno pit, to the 3 ways of crushing the cooked agaves, to open air fermentation, to 3 different distillation pots, you will see each step of the process and the artisanal nuances that make it so unique.
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The clay pot still is the Asian still,called the Filipino still in Mexico, brought over by Filipinos to distill lambanog from tuba in Colima during the late 1500's.In the early 1600's lambanog distillation was forbidden by the Spanish and all the coconut trees cut down to stop competition against their own European alcohol imports.With no tuba to distill,maguey distillation begun in ernest and the rest as they say, is history.

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