For the Love of Dogs

04/25/24 • 18 min

For a while I was not sure if I wanted to publish this episode. But I think there are quite a few things hiding in the middle of this conversation that somehow relate to the clash of cultures within mezcal.

Without further adieu please welcome Dalton Kreiss and his impressive affection for dogs.

Without further adieu please welcome Dalton Kreiss and his impressive affection for dogs.

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Mezcal Puritans

This episode is not about a new religion, so don't you worry.

This episode is about trying to better understand some of the people in the tequila, mezcal and agave spirits multiverse that I would say have a very clear and unmovable set of ideas of how these categories should behave.

So I decided to do an episode, with my good friend Jon Darby. I've referred to him before as one of the worst purists in the business, but he knows I say with affection.

Without further adieu please welcome Jon and his intense and tender love for mezcalito.

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Spiky Agave

Like many agricultural products, agaves have developed a complex relationship with humans over millennia.

Some agaves were chosen to make rope, others to extract pulque and maybe the luckiest of them all to create mezcal.

But there've been many other more subtle ways in which people have chosen their favorite agaves to deal with. In this conversation with Fabio Raya we talk about the agaves that were favored in Brazil versus those that we decided to love in Mexico.