Tequila: Fermented Succulent Juice

Tequila is the final beverage that comes from fermenting juice from the agave succulent. By law, tequila can only be made from one kind of agave plant: the blue agave. For information on how to make tequila, and how to find the blue agave plant, read this. There are blue agave farms in Mexico. The photo below was taken at an agave farm.


The blue agave plant is cut at the root, the spiny leaves are cut off, and the heart of the agave is then used to draw liquid from for the fermentation process. As you can see, the part of the agave used for tequila looks more like a pineapple than its original form.