Wild Yeast, Open-Air Fermentation & Tequila: What Really Happens Before Distillation The most important ingredient you never see on the front of most tequila bottles may be alive. Yeast. Before tequila reaches a still, before oak shapes a Reposado or Añejo, and...
Open-Air Fermentation in Tequila: Where Agave, Yeast, Time and Place Meet You can grow beautiful agave. Wait years for it to mature. Harvest it, cook it and extract its sugars. And you still don’t have tequila. Something remarkable has to happen first....
Tequila Is a Living System, Not Just a Product: From Soil and Agave to Fermentation and Glass A bottle of tequila looks finished. Glass. Cork. Label. Proof. Price. Everything about it suggests a completed product. But follow tequila backward from the bottle and it...
