Production of Pulque and Mescal in Mexico, 1887
From American Druggist, Volume 16 (May, 1887). Pulque and mescal, which are fermented and distilled liquors with a great variety of modifications, are made from the sap and root of the maguey plant or aloe, known as the Agave americana. This plant, in some thirty varieties, grows wild throughout Mexico, and in many districts it …