Mezcal

Mezcal

Mezcal is a mezcal of Mexico at 42% ABV, used in 1 drink on this site.

Not to be confused withTequila (Tequila is one specific style of mezcal, made only from blue agave in a defined region; mezcal is the wider category, usually pot-distilled from a roasted, often smoky, agave heart.)
A short glass bottle of pale gold mezcal from Oaxaca, with a black cap and an illustrated label, shown from several angles
Mezcal.jpg by The original uploader was Jcmaco at English Wikipedia.
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A short glass bottle of pale gold mezcal from Oaxaca, with a black cap and an illustrated label, shown from several angles

Composition

Strength42% ABV
Density0.95 g/ml (estimated)
Sugar0 g per 100
Acid—
Energynot carried
Animal originNone
Allergensnone listed

Producer published figures · delmaguey.com/mezcal/vida (label strength, verified via retailer listing). Del Maguey Vida is taken as the reference bottle: it is the mezcal this drink's originating bar's recipe names by name, bottled at 42% alc./vol. (84 proof). The producer's own page returned a 403 on fetch, so the figure is cross-checked against a retailer's product listing quoting the same label strength rather than against the producer's site directly. No sugar or nutrition figure is published for it; mezcal is an unaged, unsweetened agave distillate, so sugarGPer100 is stated as 0 rather than omitted, but no fuller nutrition panel is available and none is estimated here. Density has no measured source and is taken from the density-classes.json 'spirit-40' class.

Used in these drinks

most first

Substitutes

Tequila: Removes the smoke rather than replacing it; a drink built to carry a trace of mezcal alongside another spirit reads plainer and cleaner with tequila in its place.

A general substitute is a browsing aid rather than a drink-specific claim. Where a particular drink has a substitution worth making, it says so on its own page and recomputes the spec for it.