Chapter 8: Other Agave-based Beverages

Question 1

Spirit categories used for generic agave spirits (United States and Mexico)

Answer 1

– Mexico: * Destilado de Agave * Aguardiente de Agave * Destilado de Maguey – US: * Agave Spirits * Spirits Distilled from Agave

Question 2

Fermented beverage (typically consumed locally) produced from agave

Answer 2

Pulque

Question 3

Typical base ingredient used in the production of Pulque

Answer 3

Uncooked sap of ‘Agave americana’ (aka Maguey)

Question 4

A pulque production facility

Answer 4

Tinacal

Question 5

‘Zymomonas mobilis’

Answer 5

An ethanol-producing bacteria used in the production of Pulque

Question 6

Specific type of agave-based beverage produced in Sonora

Answer 6

Bacanora

Question 7

Agave Yaquiana

Answer 7

Another name for Agave Angustifolia; used in Bacanora (100%)

Question 8

Agave-based spirit produced in Jalisco and Nayarit (NOT tequila)

Answer 8

Raicilla

Question 9

Type of agave approved for use in the production of Raicilla

Answer 9

Any type of agave EXCEPT blue agave

Question 10

Translation of the word “Raicilla”

Answer 10

“little root”

Question 11

Distilled spirit produced from the “Desert Spoon” plant

Answer 11

Sotol

Question 12

(3) Mexican States of production for Sotol

Answer 12

• Chihuahua, Durango, Coahuila

Question 13

Botanical name for the Desert Spoon (Sotol) plant

Answer 13

‘Dasylirion wheeleri’