Tuesday 13 October 2009

Mezcal

Mezcal is the local spirit booze made from the maguey cactus. Very potent and takes more than we had to prevent the local bacteria from entering the digestive system! Fortunately the locals also have good stocks of the right sort of anti-biotic which they will even motorcycle-courier to your door! Nuff said, apart from that both Penny and I are almost recovered after three days!
These pics show the cactus before and after the spikes have been cut off. They then use the flesh as the raw materials to ferment and distil.

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