Tequila

Last weekend I went to Tequila what is like 2 hours from Guadalajara. The family of a Mexican friend, two Germans working at the same company and I:

Do you know what it takes to produce really good Tequila?

HOW TEQUILA IS MADE

Some facts:

• To obtain one litre of Tequila you need seven kilos of agave.
• Before you can harvest the plant it needs seven years to grow.
• The agave needs to be roasted 72 hours in the oven.
• Afterwards it is shredded.
• The sweet juice of the agave plant is fermented for several hours at a temperature of ~34°C
• Then the almost ready Tequila is distilled two times
• Before adding water, the Tequila contains 80% alcohol
• Depending on what kind of Tequila you want, the Tequila passes not one day up to several years in a oak barrel what gives it the fine and delicious taste

 The village of Tequila is an awesome, calm place where people move slower, no one is stressed and it takes quite a long time before you see you ordered meal on the table. That is nothing negative, it is life just not as fast as you may be used to.

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