What İs Tequila ? How to Made Tequila ? How to Drink Tequila ?

 What is Tequila? How to made Tequila ?

 Tequila is Indispensable drink in all conversation about bar, that's why I would like start with Tequila to my article. Here you are. All about Tequila

What is Tequila? How to made ? How to drink?

The history of Tequila

Olmeca Figure

Centuries ago, the Aztecs tribes living in the Mexico  were prepared a drink named Pulique , by fermenting the Agave plant  and they drank this light drink in their religious ceremonies, and devoted themselves to the great Mayan god Olmeca.

At the beginning of the 1600's.  for the spanish who came to the region with geographical discoveries, this mild drink could not meet the hard drink needs and they distilated Pulique for having a hard drink. as a result  tequila came out

It's took his name from the tequila town of Jalisco, Mexico. Tequila town's most important feature is the having  best climate and soil conditions for groving Ageve plant. And Tequila is only made in this part of the world.

How to Made Tequila?

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Himadore and Blue agave

es workers called “Himadore” have grove amd harvest to the blue agave plant for tequila. This palnt’s maturation time takes approximately seven years, even today harvesting made by hand by Himadores.

Himadores prune off the gren leaves untill all thats left and remains the huge core , called “Pina”. Pina looks like a giant pineapple.

After harvesting and pruning pinas sended to the Distillery . First of all workers divide pinas into quarter pieces . That is more manageable size for baking. And than they transferred to cohopped pinas to big brick owen . Pinas slowly baked for seventynine hours in here, this process convert the agave starch to sugar. Also in this process  the pinas softened and the clolors turned to Brown .

After baking pinas sent to shredder and rotates to long thin fibers. Shredded pinas land in apit and squeezzed by big  stone Wheel, called as a “Tahona”. It takes two hours of crushing to extract all the agave juices.

After this process juicing mash transfereed to wooden tanks for fermentation . In fermentation process mashes sugar transform into alcohol. After seventytwo hours of fermentation the alcohol content reaches %5. Farter the fermented mash transferred to small copper tanks for distillation , after two times distillation cycles they have alcohol content %55 Tequila.

After all those process Tequila transferred to steel tanks for extinguishing. They add pure water for alcohol content biringed down to %40.

Tequila is now ready to be classified according to its genus and quality.

Let's give a brief information about  according to their kind.

• Reposado:  rested from two months to one year

• Anejo: rested for more than a year.

• Blanco: Colorless, waited in metal or glass tanks.

• Gold: composed of Blanco and Anejo blend

• Extra Anejo: rested for at least three years.

Tequila and worm's legend

 Contrary to popular myth, the worm is not related with Tequila. It is belongs to Mezcal, a very hard drink made from Maguey plant, a variant of agave, unique to Mexico. In the 1940s, Jacobo Lozano Paez, a vigorous commercial entrepreneur who was a maker of Mezcal in Mexico spread the rumor that the worms, called Gusano, raised sexual power, and planned to increase sales by putting these worms into the Mescal jars.In fact He has been a little successful, even he wanted to export his domestic produce to europe, but at that time the country which was going to make his first exports ( as I remember Germany ) returned goods from customs because of the animal importation ban.

How to drink Tequila ?

The most common method of drinking tequila with lemon and salt   I do not need to tell you this, but what if you went to a bar in Mexico and ordered tequila? Here you are confronted with a variety of different forms of drink according to your desire.

Tequila Sangrita : When you order the sangrita, you will get two shoot glasses, one of them your Tequila of course, and the other will be sangrita whichs  prepaired by salted tomato juice, lime juice, tobasco sauce and spices. You can enjoy your sips

Tequila Sol de Gusano : If you believe the worm's legend,  you can order a "Sol de Gusano" . Your Tequila will be served with lime slices and Sol de Gusano .  So what is Sol de Gusano? . It is a kind of worm which is thrown into the Mezcal bottles , they roasted with chili pepper and spices. and after made into powder, Sprinkled on a lime or orange slices for served with Tequila 

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