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.

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