May 30, 2012

• spirited. away.

  Agave hava mi some tequila!… what a wretched play on words; oh the pun of it all.  tequila. let’s talk agave spirits. stories and trade some recipe action.

   

  Tequila of course, is a spirit made from agave- blue agave.  it like a bordeaux is made only in jalasco a mexico last time i checked under some form of law governing the fact it is tequila not mezcal which is also made from agave but not  just blue agave any agave and isn’t as tightly governed. 

   

  

  

  now that we’ve pictures of lalisco mexico, agave and a fancy tequila there for those who like to skip my lessons in meandering grammar, let’s talk some more

   

  first, I don’t know if porfidio tequila is still sold – I know fmore now than I did wheen I bought it- it is a rebrand of major tequila houses down there and I had heard it’s defunct for pissing off people, and not paying it’s taxes and at one point may have changed ownership having sold the mold for those distinctive bottles.

  http://www.winepatrol.com/tequila/tasting/Porfidio.htm

  yes, spot the gringo -take his wallet….ahhhhhhhhh what funny joke. but, none the same good tequila and the best I ever had. @ $38 a shot? geez, I get a 15 shot bottle and share one shot with the lightweight, have two of my own and mr doesn’t drink slurps down the whole bottle like it’s water.  geeze such treachery was repaid- he offered me a job jelping move a couple courtesy of family family favors and they had  no dough it was a horrible move and when I begged off to go feed my cat…legit but not lefit excuse, I offered his driving skills up for the trip to roswell new mecxico about a nasty day’s drive away to continue the misery … drink my tequila, Asshole?  I got mine in a liquor warehouse somewhere between 98 and 02 I wish I could remember better as then I could trace the actual company and simply skip the middle man and buy the good stuff. 

  the second best agave experience was

  http://www.cuervo.com/products/black.aspx

  

  Jose Cuervo black was about the last great bottle of tequila I bought.  I had to give it away as it was too good and I know this because one is not supposed to wake up drunk 12 hours later face down in the carpet after 3.  no. just not supposed to happen. I gave it away to my mother…sacrilage I know. 

   

  the best margarita I can afford to make is

  jose black

  gran gala(half the price of it’s competitor  Grand Mariner and a lot orangier)

  mr and mrs t’s margarita mix original green 

  ice

  and if you make this right and you will they’ll not be green but brown margaritas and you’ll be very very much in danger as I was of story telling.

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   I’ll admit past joys are to inclue the  jose cuervo blue  margarita mix and a blender.  ..

  now let’s talk agave  but now?  mezcal.  Mezcal is usually the stuff with the worm.  don’t tax people’s brains they do not care or wanna have the hip knowledge/grasp of life. let ‘em.   now I think I remember drinking  my roommates last of and or something way long ago so I bought him a bottle of ron zacappa rum from guatemala pricey lil bottle good rum.  and a bottle of scorpion brand mezcal  clear/silver/blanco- I had my savoring heart broke when I found out he wasn’t more than a swiller. aw.  what a waste of good booze on those  greedy and asteful

   

  I didn’t get a try of the scorpian mezcal ug. 

   

  later on a more budget friendly excursion I got mezcal after a line in a beautiful south song your fathe rand I – which I still find funny as hell   it’s a song about where junior came from and which is the real truth about romance heheheh. it’s not particularly crude but it will make you think it is youtubeable  -  so

   

  I’m a wimp and still haven’t ate the worm at the bottom of a mezcal bottle.  but

  mountain dew throwback – the real sugar mountain dew- with mezcal is a simple dimple weid but drinkable coctail 4 soda parts to one mezcal and it’ll taste like a margarita sorta   I posit to you   if you are really gung ho then put a splash of strawberry nectar  jumex or similar brand and then the mt dew throwback! if you make this with corn syrup mt dw it’s lame and gross and a waste pour it down the sink. spend the dough get the real sugar pop this time it counts very very much. 

   

   

  

  (shaddup, it was all I could afford )

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  now oddly enough I thought when I traveled to elpaso texas I’d have little trouble obtaining my mezcal fix- I went to a neighborhood bar  in  a place where it wouldn’t  be out of place to describe as stabbie.  I got my mezcal ah the lengths I will go to to get what i want

   

  now, because you cant mention tequila without somehow associating mexico..then mexican beer, beach living ahhh. so

  josh hates corona yuck don’t waste that on me gross.  I like el pacifico, tecate and cartablanca- I find that they all doctor nicely with orange spirits from triple sec to grand mariner to cointreaux in the case of carta blanca.  I’ve heard of sol. not sure.

  sodo you have any religious recipes for tequila mezcal or beer?  it is time to await ou with jimmy buffet’s margaritaville.  some people claim, there’s a woman to blame …but?

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