Description
Mezcal Alipus is a brand that showcases diversity in terroir rather than agave variety. They work together with a collective of Mezcaleros to produce fine artisanal mezcals that showcase their surroundings. Very high quality throughout the range, and a real bang-for-the-buck mezcal.
Our first encounter with Alipus was in a garage in Guadalajara a hot day in 2010. We ran in to Esteban Morales who at the time distributed Alipus locally, which resulted in the first bottles of Alipus in Denmark. A few years later, we find ourselves on dirt-road in the back of a truck in Oaxaca, on the way to visit Eduardo Hernández, the producer at Santa Ana del Rio. Needless to say it was a town attraction when two white guys have to drop all their clothes to cross a river in a attempt to visit one of our favourite producers. Today one of the copper pots in Santa Ana carries a plate with “From Denmark With Love” on it after a fundraising made in Copenhagen to buy a new still for the family.
| Maguey: | Espadin, Agave Angustifolia Haw |
| Mezcalero: | Don Joel Cruz and his sons |
| Location: | San Juan del Rio, Oaxaca |
| Elevation: | Roughly 1400m |
| Production Date: | 02/16 |
| Batch Size: | 1910 bottles |
| Oven: | Conical oven underground, fired by wood |
| Milling: | Chilean mill pulled by horses |
| Fermentation: | Natural fermentation in 1500L Wooden vats about 6 days |
| Destillation: | Doube distilled in copper pots about 300L |
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