Hard Drinkers, Lets Drink Hard (Spirits, Liquors and Cocktails)
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@Jett129 any chance you can show the side label or share which edition? Still strength blanco? I haven’t tried this yet.
ETA: never mind found it. Nuestra Raices. Looks like a more traditional production approach than they usually take. I’ll look for it!
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@mclaincausey I was thinking about you all the way when I was drinking it. Thought to tag you but figured you’d find it. This is the first Cazcanes Tequila I’m trying. They had a big sale at the liquor ,in NYC,store and I limited myself to 1 bottle,and I like getting Unicorn kind of bottles that I’m not likely to ever see in NJ.
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@Jett129 the price and industrial methods used on their other bottles make them something I’d have to sample before purchasing (seem like tahona + prices for roller mill production). But this one seems like a throwback to how tequila was produced before a lot of it kind of got ruined and industrialized. A book I’m reading gets into what happened when the government interfered and a lot of the traditional producers modernized, industrialized, and compromised to keep up with demand and maximize profit.
These guys using direct flame on the piñas and hatchets on them before the shredder sounds interesting, even if there is a lot of modern production after that.
It would be interesting to see this guy use a clay still or even a copper alembic or refrescadora, or produce expressions with highland Weber, not so much to improve as just to see how things change.
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@motojobobo I’m a Uigeadail man! Would love to taste the others
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Tree is up a little early
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BB = bourbon basics
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Usually not one for mixes but 1:4:1 of these left to right made a mean Mezcalito / mad dog margarita. A little smoke from the Rey Campero, and some vegetal jalapeño pepper from the Derrumbes which is autoclaved so no smoke went well with the jalapeño marg mix.
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@SKT @Jett129 @SourPower
Decided I needed to finally snag a bottle of this for the holidays. My favorite whiskey discovery from Ireland.
In the easy chair with my boots on, melted whiskey in my hand. Could'na been asleep for more than three hours...time to go to work again...
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@Mizmazzle oh man, wish I was there to share a dram with you…enjoy and report!
(I mean I know you’ve tried it but savoring a whole bottle will be next level)
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Picked up this cacao pechuga today. Clay still, which I especially love.
https://www.mezcalreviews.com/mezcal/macurichos-espadin-con-cacao/
!Por Lo Bueno is one of the best values in agave and I !got this sampler 6 pack of all their products as well. Excited about that too! I’ve only had the tobalá and it punches way above its price.
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@Mizmazzle How can that not elicit memories of when you first tried it. I'm glad to hear that you acquired a bottle,maybe it will inspire me to get one as I have never tried that one. And after checking,my local store is currently out of it.
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@mclaincausey i don’t think the first one is the same as the one that you got and the second one is one of their single barrels. How is the price on the first one. It’s the cheapest one they have.
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@Jett129 no it’s definitely the same bottle linked, which is their Espadin cacao pechuga. They don’t mention the cacao on the details on the back, but it is mentioned on the front label. They also had the rabbit pechuga, which is similarly labeled and made in a smaller batch.
No barrel is involved, it is Joven
It was under $90. The rabbit variant was $120. They had a tepeztate Puntas in the $200 range and a few others a bit dear for me at the moment from other producers like Pa-Alma, Rezpiral, and others.
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@mclaincausey Years ago,I had gotten a bottle of the Rezpiral on your recommendation and it still remains one of my all time favorites. They haven’t had it in stock since. Do you think the bottle they’re showing would be worth trying?…The less expensive one.
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@Jett129 which one? They had 4 at the store I went to but they were in the $150 range which was $20 over my budget.
When I land a job soon I may see if they have any left to celebrate
This is the one I really want. A shitty liquor store with zero selection of decent juice listed it online for $64. I knew it was too good to be true. Extremely primitive production from a northern Oaxacan village with its own culture and language. Should be a funky good time.
