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[Anonymous No.18922399]

Is mezcal a meme or is it actually worth trying?

[Anonymous No.18922412]

>>18922399
Too smokey. I hate it. Also hate scotch for the same reason

[Anonymous No.18922442]

I don't help financially support mexico or mexicans so I wouldn't know.

[Anonymous No.18922449]

>>18922442
If you eat food you're supporting Mexicans

[Anonymous No.18922457]

>>18922399
Nice and Smokey. Love it. Also love scotch for the same reason

[Anonymous No.18922458]

>>18922399
It is absolutely worth trying a quality mezcal. Very wide array of possible flavors. Del maguey is a good starting brand.

[Anonymous No.18922470]

>>18922449
Nah I grow my own.

[Anonymous No.18922478]

>>18922470
do you grow your Mexicans free range or keep cooped up?

[Anonymous No.18922707]

>>18922412
>>18922457
The duality of smokey

[Anonymous No.18922711]

>>18922399
>Is mezcal a meme
No, it's an alcoholic beverage.

[Anonymous No.18922712]

>>18922707
Smokelet vs. Smoking.

[Anonymous No.18922907]

>>18922712
Filter(ed)

[Anonymous No.18922924]

>>18922707
>>18922457
>>18922412
put me in the reddit!!!!!111!

[Anonymous No.18922925]

>>18922442
Mor liek Mexican'ts!

[Anonymous No.18922928]

I like it. Reminds me of when I'd drink new make scotch in the Highlands for pure enjoyment. It's clean and has good body for the ABV.
>>18922412
You know you can get non-smoky Mezcal right? Mezcals made using Agave durangensis are more fruity and not as smoke driven, but smoke is also depending on quality. Higher quality mezcal usually isn't as smoky so the better bottlings of Del Maguey may be your best bet.

[Anonymous No.18922954]

>>18922412
there is also plenty of scotch that isn't smokey. any scotch other than Islay, really.

[Anonymous No.18924074]

Picked this up. First time trying mezcal while sampling at the store. He stated he had one that taste like blue cheese which I passed on.

[Anonymous No.18924547]

>>18922399
Mezcal is kind of a hobby. There are your entry mezcals which give you a feel for the smokiness and some of the complexity to expect, sipping young and neat. After that point, taste taste taste. The pervasive quality is that mezcals are all small batches, imported into select regions (if at all), and will differ distinctly from batch to batch from the same distiller. It's like tasting wine vintages x5.
The other thing I've heard consistently is that the best mezcals don't leave their villages, so to really get into it eventually you'd want to visit a tasting festival in Mexico (there's shitloads to see for any interest in Mexico anyway, so no need to make that your only reason to go).

If you like agave-forward tequila, mezcal is a natural next step. If you like the finer aspects of vintages etc in wine, it's definitely a spirit to look into, though you'll probably also want to look at the various European brandies. If the whole craft brewing, hand-made, stone-ground, traditional oven-roasted pitch appeals to you, then mezcal's the place. But it's only getting more expensive as Mexico, slowly, gets more developed and the export market continues to grow following a boom over the last decade.

>>18922412
Mezcal doesn't have to be smokey. Nothing in its specification requires it.

>>18922954
Scotch also doesn't have to be smokey, or peated (which you might be confusing as the same thing). There's a new Islay distiller that doesn't peat anything.

[Anonymous No.18924575]

Mezcal> tequila

[Anonymous No.18924932]

>>18924575
good anejo comes close

[Anonymous No.18924948]

>>18922399
I like it. If you're into Islay scotch you for sure should give it a go. Sotol is nice too from time to time.

[Anonymous No.18924958]

Mods, can you ban threads that ask if a specific food/drink is a meme

[Anonymous No.18924960]

>>18924958
Still better than another fast food kraft mac and cheese soda thread

[Anonymous No.18925038]

>>18924960
actually its not
we aren't talking about food, we are talking about people
it's food adjacent, at least fast food is legally still food

[Anonymous No.18925186]

>>18925038
Only legally and even there the line is very thin

[Anonymous No.18925491]

>>18924932
>>18924575
>good anejo comes close
They're completely different classes at that point. Most mezcal is presented young and judged on its young expressions, whereas for tequila you evaluate it different levels of aging in oak. If you prefer one class of spirit generally over another, fine, but tequila and mezcal are not compared side-by-side as if one is simply a better spirit than another.

[sage No.18925536]

>>18922399
It's good if you like smoke. Lot of options for unique cocktails. I recently had one that used something beet based for the mixer, lemon/salt/pepper/sugar on rim.

[Anonymous No.18925673]

>>18922399
It's all the worst part of tequila, which is also a garbage liquor. I have never had or even heard of good Mezcal.

[Anonymous No.18925695]

i love this lil nigga like you wouldn't believe. 75mL of this and as much lime as you like, shaken over ice.

[Anonymous No.18925701]

>>18925695
> not drinking in room temperature neat
go fuck yourself faggot

[Anonymous No.18926145]

I bought the meme one that comes with the worm at the bottom
The mezcal tasted real good but I was too scared to try the worm, my cousin had said he would do it but when the time came he chickened out too

[Anonymous No.18926148]

>>18922399
So drink enough of that stuff and you'll ride around on a bull naked?

[Anonymous No.18926159]

>>18926145
A cousin and I and a Japanese friend did the mezcal worm thing one summer, we'd get the worm from the bottom of the mezcal bottle then chop it up into three bits to we each got an even portion then go swimming in the Atlantic with rip tides and stuff, none of us were ever harmed from that.

[Anonymous No.18926478]

>>18925673
What do you prefer to drink?

[Anonymous No.18926484]

My big bro, a bartender of about 16 years, says it is his favorite.

[Anonymous No.18927511]

Kinda related but is fortaleza good or a meme? My favorite so far is ocho tequila and wanna try out more

[Anonymous No.18927674]

>>18922399
>2oz mezcal
>1oz lime juice
>0.75oz 1:1 honey syrup (simple syrup but with honey instead of sugar)
>shake shake shake with some ice
>dump
>enjoy

>2oz mezcal
>1oz lime juice
>0.5oz agave syrup
>0.5oz dry Curacao
>shake shake shake with ice
>dump
>enjoy

[Anonymous No.18927691]

like mezcal but people I know dislike the smokiness so I stick with tequila

[Anonymous No.18927714]

>>18922707
>>18922412
>smokey

[Anonymous No.18927834]

>>18927714
i'm gonna smooooke