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The tequila no history.......... no telling about the birth of anecdotes, either. It already existed in the beginning. This is a gift from the gods. It's gods, who did not provide tales. It's the dead of fright and traditional children's drink. This myth of the essence of Mexico, the world-conquering new drink. északAz drink named after the western Mexican province of Jalisco's capital, Guadalajaratól 65 kilometers to the west. This region is the land of the Nahuatl Indians of yore.
In 1530, the Spanish Juan Calero Escarcena but even in this place, at the foot of an extinct volcano establish colonies that will receive the name Tequila. Today we have more than twenty thousand inhabitants town, the inhabitants of the great pride of the recent (1974) urban rank grow up. located in Mexico tequila industry's two most important area surrounding Tequila, and east of Highlands, Los Altos. The rural hills of at least 200 million tipped blue-gray agave growing. Caring for processing and forty thousand people in their daily pursuits and livelihood. Most of these are labor-intensive work in the agave farms. The work is characterized by the dimensions of the plantations that between 2000 and 2006, 340 million agave was planted in the province. Even outside of Jalisco Nayarit, Guanajuato and Michoacan provinces have grown blue agave tequila making.
Tequila
The plant ... the agave growing tradition, the plant utilization surprisingly far, dating back about 9,000 years. Today, the agave in Mexico native herbivores has become emblematic of the new world, of which 20 the last third of the century throne after the drink, tequila is born. In industrialized societies, the arts and crafts tradition, the high labor ratio further increased the estimate and drink with the popularity of tequila bottle up nyolcesztendÅ‘nyi is.Egy preparation time is necessary but often not sufficient for twenty. The main reason is that the tequila raw material resources necessary for the fermentation of sugar a year is not harvested grain or fruit, but the blue agave (maguey). The blue agave (Agave tequilana, Weber) in Mexico is one of 136 species of agave. These plants are in the soil, climate, weather and crop conditions, according to an average of 8-14 years, but the tequilakészÃtéshez 8-10 years of age are considered the optimal harvesting them. So it is to have a planted at an annual drive (hijuelo) at the earliest only in 2016, perhaps 2020 will be harvested, which is expressed in a plant's life.
1 Myth: tequila made ​​from cactus.
The blue agave tequila is made from agave and belongs to the lily plants (Liliales) and the order is not related to the cactus. The similarity is based only thing that is agaves, cacti and succulent as well (succulent) plants.
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2 Myth: tequila and mezcal drinks the same.
The well-known logical structure: all tequila mezcal but not all mezcal tequila. Although both are made ​​from agave, but tequila is called exclusively made ​​from the blue agave mezcalt. While most of mezcal produced in Oaxaca province, while the birthplace of tequila from Jalisco province. There are many differences in the manufacturing process, which results in different flavors too.
Unfortunately, today the blue agave lost much of the fungus (Fusarium) and resilience of against a number of other diseases that pose a threat to tequila production, since the plantations to grow crops up to 25-30% of an inability to drink element prodiction .Az first tequila to 16th made centuries when the Spanish conquerors was run out of the old world and the new world italaiból plants of the Indian traditions agave sugars found most suitable for the manufacture of liquor. With the mass production of Tequila Don Pedro Sánchez de Tagle at the very end of the 1500s began, followed shortly by the alcohol production is taxed (1608). The production is spread in 19 is beginning the century, the city of Guadalajara and tied.
