El Jolgorio Ancestral Sierrudo Mezcal Opihr Gin After cooking the agaves

After cooking the agaves

which can mean even older whiskey in the bottle

or in a complex Manhattan or rich and round Negroni

then mashed the cooked agave with large hammers made of mesquite in a wooden trough

El Jolgorio Ancestral Sierrudo Mezcal Opihr Gin After cooking the agavesEl Jolgorio's Ancestral Edition Mezcals are produced exclusively using traditional, ancestral methods of production, including cooking in earthen pits, hand crushing with wooden mallets, open air fermentation in wooden vats, and perhaps most crucially for imparting a distinct old school, very traditional profile distillation in small clay pots, which creates super mineral heavy, earthy rich mezcal, but in extremely small batches. This batch of the