Mezcal
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mezcal-213-507051
title:
Mezcal
text:
Mezcal, sometimes spelled mescal, is a distilled alcoholic beverage made from any type of agave. Agaves or magueys are endemic to the Americas and found globally as ornamental plants. Native fermented drinks from maguey plant, such as pulque, existed before the arrival of the Spanish, but the origin of mezcal is tied to the introduction of Filipino-type stills to New Spain by Filipino migrants via the Manila galleons in the late 1500s and early 1600s. These stills were initially used to make vin
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Distilled alcoholic beverage from Mexico
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezcal
date created:
2002-09-06T03:57:52Z
date modified:
2024-09-12T09:24:45Z
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