Heladio Lopez
craft distillers
Heladio Lopez made what’s inside the bottle in your hand.
He’s young, gifted, innovative, learns from his work, and is using 70-liter clay potstills to distill some of the finest mezcals we have tasted: impressive character, definition, finesse. His
focus is tiny batches of local agaves.
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Heladio's small roasting pit-oven(horno)
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Where he hand-crushes the roasted agaves
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Checking a fermentation. Great distillers display intense focus.
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Removing agave solids (bagasso) after a run
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Emplacing the condensation chamber
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Sealing the still with bagasso for the next run
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Cooling water for the condensing pan
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Tending the fire with care. Ready heat is crucial