I’ve never tried pulque, which is an opaque white agave beer from Mexico. It’s evidently available in cans as well as served in restaurants. Anyone know where I can get some in the neighborhood or the Bay Area? The closest I’ve found is a taqueria outside Sacramento, which incidentally looks awesome.
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Update: coincidentally, my favorite cocktail blogger just did a post on Pulque!
http://www.alcademics.com/2012/09/drinking-pulque-in-teochitlan-mexico.html
It’s sold all over Los Angeles in supermarkets, you can always have a friend sent you a case. This is the brand that makes it: http://pulque1881.com
Thanks, Kiya!
Moyashimon!
If you did, you wouldn’t be looking for it — it’s not particularly good.
I almost included a retort to this comment in my post, cuz I knew it was coming, but I hate it when people do that. I just wanna try it!
It isn’t a fermented grain and therefore not beer. You could more acurately call it wine or cider.
I thought about this for a while and did some wiki-ing. Cider is typically made from fruit and wine is typically like 7-14% alcohol, which I don’t think pulque is. The agave they use to make pulque is more closely related to yucca than any typical fruit we would make cider out of. So I agree beer is not a perfect word, I don’t know that it’s a terrible word to use.
In a pulquería…….ZING! right over the heads of the beard and flannels.
so helpful…
yeah, its an interesting drink. I went to a pulqueria in D.F. and it was served up in a galvanized bucket with a ladle. we ordered two buckets in two flavors. plain and celery…it has the consistency of snot.
tried it once, no desire to try it again.