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Blind Tasting With...Dan (Mezcal Room)

Maestros del Mezcal Podcast - May 08, 2024 20:12 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 38 ratings
Welcome to the first Blind Tasting With... Episode; In this series we will try to understand the processes that different people go through when decifering what is in their copita during a blind tasting. 

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Diana Pinzón - Defense of Endemic Agave in Mexico - Questions for California Agave Council

Maestros del Mezcal Podcast - February 24, 2024 16:47 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 38 ratings
We interview Diana Pinzón, a biologist, conservationist and co-founder of Zinacantan mezcal. Diana poses 10 questions for the California Agave Council and expresses her concern for protecting endemic agave in Mexico and the bio-cultural heritage they represent. 

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The Great Espadin Investigation - Part 2 - Genetics - Dr. Jorge Nieto Sotelo

Maestros del Mezcal Podcast - January 05, 2024 13:33 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 38 ratings
We continue our investgation into the plant known as Espadin in Oaxaca; This time following genetic trail. Dr. Jorge Nieto Sotelo from UNAM in Mexico City talks to us about Agave angustifolia and it's possible origins among other things. 

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Mezcal and Cheese, a Great Pairing - with Cheesemonger Julia Gross.

Maestros del Mezcal Podcast - December 16, 2023 16:34 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 38 ratings
Recorded sometime in 2022 - we finally edited this interview / tasting we did with professional cheesemonger, Julia Gross. Some fun and insightful stuff about cheese and mezcal pairing in general.

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The Great Espadin Investigation - Part 1

Maestros del Mezcal Podcast - December 12, 2023 15:07 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 38 ratings
We begin to research the origins of the plant known as "Espadin" in Oaxaca. 

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Hablamos con Raul Chavez, un Agricultor de Agave en California

Maestros del Mezcal Podcast - October 16, 2023 20:17 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 38 ratings
Hablamos con Raul Chavez, un Agricultor de Agave en California

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Craig Reynolds of the California Agave Council

Maestros del Mezcal Podcast - October 09, 2023 15:09 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 38 ratings
A conversation with Craig Reynolds of the California Agave Council

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The Importance of Words in Preserving Traditional Mezcal

Maestros del Mezcal Podcast - September 13, 2023 14:33 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 38 ratings
Our new host Vinik Jure and Rion Toal talk about the importance of words when it comes to the preservation of traditional mezcal. 

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Season 3 Episode 7 - Aromatic Compounds in Mezcal

Maestros del Mezcal Podcast - June 30, 2021 13:35 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 38 ratings
We talk with analytical chemist Adam Floyd about the mezcal samples he ran through Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometry

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Season 3 Episode 6 - Aging Mezcal

Maestros del Mezcal Podcast - May 01, 2021 02:38 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 38 ratings
We start to dive into how mezcal ages and which mezcal ages best.

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Season 3 Episode 5 - The Karwinskii of Santa Catarina Minas

Maestros del Mezcal Podcast - May 01, 2021 02:31 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 38 ratings
Lalo Angeles sheds some light on the karwinskii of Minas

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Season 3 Episode 3 - An Interview with a Yeast Whisperer

Maestros del Mezcal Podcast - April 01, 2021 02:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 38 ratings
Shea Comfort talks to us about Fermentation, Durian Fruits, and Location Specific Microbial Influence on Wine Barrel Wood among other things.

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Season 3 Episode 3 - Agave asperrima

Maestros del Mezcal Podcast - March 25, 2021 15:59 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 38 ratings
Luis Loya of Lamata talks with us about Agave asperrima

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Season 3 Episode 2 - Interview Dr. Joaliné Pardo Nuñez

Maestros del Mezcal Podcast - February 25, 2021 00:15 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 38 ratings
We interview Dr. Joaliné Pardo Nuñez about an experiment she is helping to conduct concerning mezcal producers perception of the flavors in mezcal.

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Season 3 Episode 1 - The Tobalá Complex

Maestros del Mezcal Podcast - February 24, 2021 23:38 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 38 ratings
We talk about the Agave species within the Tobalá Complex and the common names used to refer to them.

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Episode 10 - The Great Fly Experiment - Part III

Maestros del Mezcal Podcast - July 16, 2020 02:30 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 38 ratings
We continue to bother fruit flies with questions about their pallets. They are starting to get annoyed.

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Episode 9 - The Great Fly Experiment - Part II

Maestros del Mezcal Podcast - May 21, 2020 13:51 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 38 ratings
We continue to try to decipher fruit fly's mezcal preferences. 

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Episode 8 - Agave Genetics - Dr. Jorge Nieto Sotelo

Maestros del Mezcal Podcast - May 12, 2020 12:38 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 38 ratings
We talk with Dr. Jorge Nieto Sotelo about his recent study that sheds some light on the genetic origins of Agave tequilana, Espadín and other species and varieties. 

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Episode 7 - The Great Fly Experiment - Part I

Maestros del Mezcal Podcast - May 04, 2020 01:08 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 38 ratings
Borrachitos: Those little flies in your copita; what can they tell us?

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Episode 6 - Mezonte Project and Mezcales of Jalisco

Maestros del Mezcal Podcast - September 26, 2019 17:19 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 38 ratings
Did you know there may be thousands of Traditional Mezcal producers in Jalisco? In this episode we talk with Pedro Jimenez Gurría of Mezonte and Pare de Surfir about his projects and about the diverse mezcales of Jalisco. 

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Episode 5

Maestros del Mezcal Podcast - July 19, 2019 20:14 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 38 ratings
In this episode with talk with Silvia Philion of Mezcaloteca to discuss her thinking behind the recent decision to remove essential information from the labels. We also discuss what happens when mezcal becomes more about business and less about tradition, and a quickly changing Oaxaca. 

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Episode # 4 - Karwinskiis in Miahuatlan

Maestros del Mezcal Podcast - July 02, 2019 14:07 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 38 ratings
We talk with Max Rosenstock of Neta Spirits about Karwinskiis in Miahuatlan, Oaxaca. 

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Episode 3

Maestros del Mezcal Podcast - December 01, 2018 06:17 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 38 ratings
We talk about our new map with 16 Oaxacan mezcal regions and common and scientific agave names.

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Episode 2 - Mezcal Distillation in Oaxaca

Maestros del Mezcal Podcast - April 26, 2018 21:22 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 38 ratings
All about mezcal distillation in Oaxaca

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Maestros del Mezcal Podcast # 1

Maestros del Mezcal Podcast - March 08, 2018 01:17 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 38 ratings
A quick but detailed introduction to mezcal. 

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Juego Adictivo

César Arreortúa - January 03, 2011 16:25 - application/x-shockwave-flash
Hola lectores de mi blog, no pude hacer un post de año nuevo porque andaba cansadon, pero aquí les traigo un juego muuuy adictivo que me encontre en la red en estos dias, y pues el reto casi imposible de cumplir es conseguir 1,800 puntos que es una autentica hazaña, pero para que les digo mas; me...

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