Harvesting Agave (2/3) | How to Brew Mezcal and Tequila

previously I got to learn firsthand the process and making mezcal in Oaxaca but perhaps most popular variety of mezcal especially outside Mexico is tequila well each year in Mexico produces over 6 million liters of mezcal over 260 million litres of tequila is produced the production of tequila is very similar to mezcal but with a few very distinct differences most mezcal production is centered around the state of Oaxaca while tequila is produced in the state of Jalisco home to its birth city tequila the source of its name make my own tequila I visited tequila Herradura and join them in agave fields to learn first hand now we're at the city of tequila I'm here with Anne Hill with Herradura is gonna show me how to make tequila so what's so special about Blue Agave Tequila well in Mexico are about a hundred and thirty six different types of agave only five states in the country and allowed to produce tequila for us take us at least seven years to obtain the mature agave so how many feels like this you have then to keep production going year round whoa per year we plan to millions of a spout oh wow I'm to plan those to millions we need about 600 hectares total Casa Laguna has at least 14 million plants for today total Himalayas are about in this field 17 they are going to harvest sixty tons so Extremadura is going to make around one hundred hundred and twenty plants in less than six hours and is about three three and a half tons very mellow we use agave from the highlands of Jalisco we set up from Nigeria and wanna Watteau and of course from this area that is known as the lowlands what's the name for the people who are harvesting them timid or mid or the harvester is le Jimador okay so that's how we do year-round service they learn generation by generation maybe the father of this guy was sucking my lure and his grandfather was a Commodore and generation by generation that's how they drink how to so are doing this job by hand for more than 150 years you will see how they are kinda leaves you will try and that's how you are going to respect tequila so one of them is going to show me how to do it on sure let's go this guy his name is Santos he's a franchising scheme and oh thank you 22 years doing this job but a new case always we made the load cut in spinal cord humahuaca why because all the leaves contain some kind of waxes so details mature have a low cut and at the end always a split arabic here in the field moves in the party over there in the center the rabbit is always important to cut this is small par in the top of the heart that is called Koguryo if we don't cut this in small part that is called 400 from here we want to use of sugar only watches and during cooking a step is going to change the flavor not appear in the next W you will try how to harvest and believe me is a very hard and dangerous job what's name little co-op coffee or a poor ok is your turn are you right hand or left hand right ended okay yeah like that and the other in the other sash yeah like that look here yes you did next up I'll head to the distillery to learn how these agave plants are turned into liquor

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Length: 5min 15sec (315 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 02 2016