AGAVE SPIRITS FROM FAMILY DESTILERÍAS
COMUNIDAD
preserving the culture that distills great spirits from the wondrous agave
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Visiting Alberto Ortiz
COMUNIDAD Bramaderos is hand-distilled by Alberto “Don Beto” Ortiz.
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Don Beto’s destilería is located near Bramaderos (pop. 558) in Miahuatlan, about two hours south of Oaxaca City. The altitude is some 3300 feet.
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Miahuatlan is open, with rolling hills and shaley ferriferous soils. It is well known for distillation of semi-wild Karwinskii agaves.
Don Beto’s tinas (fermentation tanks).
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The mazos, mallets used to crush the roasted agaves for fermentation. It takes 3 men eight hours to crush enough to fill a tina.
Maturing madrecuishe, one of the agaves of the Karwinskii family. Its high acids give structure and definition to many of Don Beto’s distillates.
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