Beginner’s Guide to Mezcal

What is Mezcal? Mezcal: that clear, bitter, smoky spirit you tried once with a worm in the bottle – or potentially have never heard of at all. While most of us have had plenty of exposure to Tequila, an agave spirit (blue agave, specifically) commonly paired with lime, salt, and questionable decisions, many on this side of the Atlantic have had little access to the other agave spirits that exist in Mexico.