Speaker 1: Hey, this is Anny and Samantha and.
Speaker 2: Welcome to Steff. I've never told your production of I
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Speaker 3: And welcome to another edition of Happy Hour. Go ahead
Speaker 3: and upfront, we are drinking adult beverages. So if you
Speaker 3: are partaking and whatever you're doing, do so responsibly. Annie,
Speaker 3: that's to you as well.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 3: Also, currently not sponsored by any of these products.
Speaker 1: Of course, dynamic has changed.
Speaker 3: Maybe they like our episode and they ask us to
Speaker 3: who knows, No matter what, Currently this is not a sponsorship.
Speaker 3: Today we did purchase this. I'm gonna get reimbursed this
Speaker 3: time around. I swear to god, I'm the worst about this.
Speaker 3: But today we are actually kind of going back to
Speaker 3: the root of what we were doing doing with the
Speaker 3: Happy Hour, even though we love what it is, what
Speaker 3: has become I guess what is bloomed to become. But
Speaker 3: we are featuring an actual liquor or company led by
Speaker 3: a group of women, specifically Yola Helminez as well as
Speaker 3: Leaky Lee, which is the musician as you know of it,
Speaker 3: and Gina correll Aglietti who has formed this company together
Speaker 3: very purposefully, all women led. When we'd love to see it.
Speaker 3: And here is a little bit from them, it says.
Speaker 3: After spending time abroad, Yola Jimenez was drawn back to
Speaker 3: the slow pleasures of her native Wahaka, where she inherited
Speaker 3: her grandfather's farm in two thousand and seven and began
Speaker 3: debating her relationship to the land and the mescal it produces.
Speaker 3: Is not coincidence that this moment aligns with the drink's
Speaker 3: sudden rise in popularity. Yola was one of the movement's
Speaker 3: earliest pioneers. Along with two friends, she opened one of
Speaker 3: Mexico City's first mess calarias. She sold small batches of
Speaker 3: her farm's production to a handful of innovative chefs, laying
Speaker 3: the groundwork for their current global community of creatives, and
Speaker 3: they suggested using her name to celebrate its roots as
Speaker 3: the passion project of a woman and a local. So yes,
Speaker 3: today we are drinking Yola Mescal. Go ahead and be
Speaker 3: really transparent. I do not like mescal so as I'm
Speaker 3: drinking and maybe reviewing it. If you don't hear the
Speaker 3: passion in my voice, it is because I am not
Speaker 3: the biggest fan of messcal, not necessarily this distillery, because
Speaker 3: I'm excited about what they're doing and how they're doing it.
Speaker 3: But in general, when it comes to like mescals, anything
Speaker 3: smoky like this and Scotch, all I taste is burnt
Speaker 3: duct tape and it's really hard for me to get
Speaker 3: past that. So and did make a cocktail. We're going
Speaker 3: to talk about what I made in a minute.
Speaker 1: And I still don't.
Speaker 3: Love it, but I can still taste what is quality
Speaker 3: and what isn't you know what I mean? So I
Speaker 3: will say that, but yes, complete transparency with that.
Speaker 1: I'm not the biggest fan. But any you love mescal.
Speaker 4: I love mescal. It is one of my favorites. I
Speaker 4: love Scotch. I love like kind of the in the
Speaker 4: back of your throat smoky taste. I remember the first
Speaker 4: time I had mescal and I was like, where have
Speaker 4: you been my whole life?
Speaker 2: So that's good. We can balance each other out.
Speaker 1: We do.
Speaker 3: And that's the other part to this is just because
Speaker 3: I don't like it doesn't mean it shouldn't be featured
Speaker 3: or talked about. So that's just a personal taste for
Speaker 3: me in general, because I do not enjoy the smoky taste.
Speaker 3: For me, I like the burning of liquor alcohol. I
Speaker 3: like that sensation. I don't like the actual taste of it. Again,
Speaker 3: I don't know if I've been traumatized, and I don't
Speaker 3: know if I've made up some scenario in my head
Speaker 3: because I imagine, again this is very specific and trigger warning.
Speaker 3: If anybody's been in a car wreck, don't listen to
Speaker 3: this part. But like if there was a car wreck,
Speaker 3: the car gets set on fire, the leather seats which
Speaker 3: may have had duct tape on at one point in time.
Speaker 1: I don't know why.
Speaker 3: This is very specific to me, and it burns and
Speaker 3: then you walk to it that says freshly burned, that's
Speaker 3: what it tastes like.
Speaker 2: To me, Well, that's very funny.
Speaker 4: And you say that because there is a distillery in
Speaker 4: Atlanta that has a scotch that is called tire Fire.
Speaker 1: Yes they do. They have that scotch whiskey, and I
Speaker 1: also hate that one.
Speaker 4: But it's a very specific. It is like a burning
Speaker 4: smoky taste.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, yes, the smoky that is the best description.
Speaker 3: And I will and their site continues. I do want
Speaker 3: to say, like, outside of this what they say, it
Speaker 3: says it's clear from the start that a women led
Speaker 3: company from Wahaka should also be women operated. Our mester Mescallera,
Speaker 3: a role traditionally held by men. Is Guadalupe Batista, who
Speaker 3: is Javier's daughter, and I are mezcal is distilled and
Speaker 3: bottled by an all female team on our namesakes farm
Speaker 3: from the most intimate dinners to a massive music festival.
Speaker 3: We've produced and hosted dozens of events where women had
Speaker 3: the tables, chefs, artists, musicians, So you know, we love
Speaker 3: that and we celebrate that as well. So therefore, of
Speaker 3: course we have to talk about this and celebrate it
Speaker 3: as well. I actually did have to order it. I
Speaker 3: couldn't find any locally. I think there was one in
Speaker 3: like Alfaretta, Georgia, So if you're from Georgia, you know
Speaker 3: that's about forty minutes out of Atlanta, so it was
Speaker 3: a little farther away. So I did get it directly
Speaker 3: from the company. I think they use a third party system.
Speaker 3: It came so quickly, too, like so quickly. I was
Speaker 3: very surprised how quickly it came, because I think I
Speaker 3: ordered on Wednesday, Tuesday, I told you I was going
Speaker 3: to do it, and it came Friday, and I was like, wow, okay,
Speaker 3: then they're ready and the bottle is very cute. My
Speaker 3: partner is very excited because he also loves Moscow, and
Speaker 3: I can't stay this so that don't have it because
Speaker 3: typically I'm much like the statistics. I'm the purchaser in
Speaker 3: the house, so I don't get it if I don't
Speaker 3: like it. Kind of same thing with Mayah. I never
Speaker 3: bought it until I had moved in with my partner
Speaker 3: who loves me, and I'm like, this is disgusting. So
Speaker 3: I very rarely get it and I never think about it.
Speaker 3: But then I'm like, oh, yeah, I guess he does
Speaker 3: like it. But mescal is also on that list, so
Speaker 3: very impressive how quickly it came. He's excited. It is
Speaker 3: very beautiful bottle, very wonderfully done, and you can go
Speaker 3: on their site and see their whole process. They talk
Speaker 3: about the distillery, they talk about how they get it done,
Speaker 3: the agave process, the distilling process, and it's a whole.
Speaker 3: I mean, just like with any fine liquors, you know,
Speaker 3: it's a process and it is a craft.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, so.
Speaker 3: In According to one mescal review I believe it's called
Speaker 3: miscal review dot com, they say, Yolo Mescal is handcrafted
Speaker 3: using a family recipe, using agaves, harvested on a family
Speaker 3: farm that was purchased in nineteen seventy one. It is
Speaker 3: produced in San Juan del Rio. Agaves are roasted in
Speaker 3: an earthen oven for seventy five hours in the spring
Speaker 3: and summer and eighty six hours in the fall and winter.
Speaker 3: The cooked plants are crushed by tahona and then fermented
Speaker 3: in oak barrels with filtered spring water and captured rainwater.
Speaker 3: The first distillation takes about ten hours and the second
Speaker 3: is slower and takes about fifteen hours. The copper pot
Speaker 3: made at Mescal is distilled to proof and hand bottled
Speaker 3: on site.
Speaker 1: So very very thorough. Interesting.
Speaker 3: Back to the Yolow Mescal site, it says the tasting
Speaker 3: notes are opens with striking flavors of peppered citrus that
Speaker 3: give way to a soothing, smoky finish, and then the
Speaker 3: Mescal review says the flavors are bright and refreshing, yet
Speaker 3: complex with earthy mineral flavors. So, Annie, did you actually
Speaker 3: take a sip of it on its own? What is
Speaker 3: your flavor profile to this?
Speaker 4: I think that's really accurate because the first when I
Speaker 4: took a sip, at first, I was like, oh wow,
Speaker 4: you know, this is a very light. The smokiness isn't
Speaker 4: really there as strongly as I'm used to with mezcal,
Speaker 4: but then in the finish it came in. So I
Speaker 4: think these are these are great descriptions because it does
Speaker 4: open kind of like you can still taste that smokiness,
Speaker 4: but it's a bit lighter. But as the as the
Speaker 4: taste continues and builds, it comes in at the end.
Speaker 2: Am I doing well?
Speaker 1: You were doing such a great job.
Speaker 3: It's been a long time since we've done I will say,
Speaker 3: while you were doing that, I decided to take a
Speaker 3: taste on my own because I'm doing it.
Speaker 1: I was like, you know, I'll do it on Mike,
Speaker 1: just making faces at you.
Speaker 2: I don't mean I was like, oh wow, she thinks
Speaker 2: I'm a total more.
Speaker 3: I think you did a great job because I need
Speaker 3: I will depend on you because all I can focus
Speaker 3: on is this moment. But I will say it does
Speaker 3: have the beginning. It does have the beginning of a
Speaker 3: tequila where it has that shot very quickly, very strong,
Speaker 3: and then it I taste the duct tape at the end. No,
Speaker 3: just kidding, you know, hell, you know we're talking about
Speaker 3: when you rip open duct tape and you smelled it
Speaker 3: hits you, you'll think about it like when you like,
Speaker 3: oh there's a smell as you rip open duct tape,
Speaker 3: you're like wow. Anyway, but it does finish with that.
Speaker 3: But I will say, because it is sweet, it's not
Speaker 3: the worst. Like I've definitely had.
Speaker 1: Worse alcohols, a lot of worse alcohols.
Speaker 3: With with my flavor tasting on that and it's not
Speaker 3: so bad that I couldn't but I needed an immediate
Speaker 3: aftershot because it does stay on my tongue and I
Speaker 3: could see why people like it.
Speaker 1: This is just not my preference in like what I
Speaker 1: would have, but it.
Speaker 3: Does very It's sweeter than I anticipated as well as
Speaker 3: it sits on the tongue. It kind of is a
Speaker 3: sweetened taste almost as I guess the gave and like you,
Speaker 3: if you are familiar and use a gave, then you
Speaker 3: know that that levelsweetness. And it's not overwhelming because it
Speaker 3: doesn't taste like anything but sweetness to me. Like honey
Speaker 3: has a very specific sweet taste. This is kind of
Speaker 3: that level of that difference. So yeah, I can see
Speaker 3: why it's uh loved by so many. It smells like
Speaker 3: a sweet or tequila with some smokiness. To me, I
Speaker 3: guess that's a good way for me to describe it
Speaker 3: in my reference because I don't drink mescal in general
Speaker 3: as a thing. So and then I was trying to
Speaker 3: see if we could find any of their own respaces.
Speaker 3: Many of their companies have create their own signature cocktails,
Speaker 3: but I couldn't find it. And it may just been
Speaker 3: like they have their own separate thing, but that means
Speaker 3: that meant that I was like, hey, can you do
Speaker 3: your own cocktail? And he's like, of course, so, any
Speaker 3: what did you make?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 4: I don't think this will surprise anyone, but I made
Speaker 4: the most simple cocktail. I looked up like mescal cocktails
Speaker 4: and pretty much the only one I had all the
Speaker 4: ingredients for was called mescal water and oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: it's just like mezcal, the sparkling water and then a
Speaker 4: citrus and I use lime, so it is sort of
Speaker 4: a not quite margarita, but in that realm. Yeah, and
Speaker 4: it's very lovely and very refreshing.
Speaker 1: I saw that.
Speaker 3: I was like, okay, So I went through different different
Speaker 3: recipes and I do have a pretty stock bar and
Speaker 3: I found one in Food and Wine that calls for
Speaker 3: tart cherry slurry. I guess where you make your own,
Speaker 3: and I'm not doing that or puree.
Speaker 1: I did not do that.
Speaker 3: I have a tart cherry juice because I have been
Speaker 3: drinking the Sleepy Time mocktails for those of you who
Speaker 3: are familiar from TikTok, I've been doing those and tart
Speaker 3: cherry juices. Now I'm my refrigerator, so I was like,
Speaker 3: I'll just use that.
Speaker 1: So I made that with a little bit of a gave.
Speaker 3: A lash of orange bitters cointroll because it does call
Speaker 3: for that, and I like it sparkly, so I added
Speaker 3: little bit of ginger el, but it was flat.
Speaker 1: Oh no, the tonic water, so that did help.
Speaker 3: So they're calling it a sour cherry margarita, very simple.
Speaker 3: I want to messcal margarita. I'm gonna call it something
Speaker 3: else because obviously I did it something odd completely on
Speaker 3: its own. I'm not really sure what I would call it,
Speaker 3: so and you'll have to think of help me think
Speaker 3: of a name. Yeah, but yeah, So I tried it,
Speaker 3: and because all I could taste was muscal, it's like,
Speaker 3: oh my gosh, So it tastes like smoky cherry juice
Speaker 3: to me, but it's actually getting better with some ice
Speaker 3: in it. It's delicious. Actually, I'm like, okay, I wouldn't drink.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't choose this drink, right. I did have someone,
Speaker 3: my partner, who does like messcal.
Speaker 2: He tried it.
Speaker 3: He really liked it, so he's like, oh, oh yeah,
Speaker 3: I like that. I was like, so, yay, I made
Speaker 3: a successful cocktail. And I don't know what I'm.
Speaker 1: Going to call it.
Speaker 3: We have time to workshop, we have to workship this
Speaker 3: cherry cherry smoky cherry smoky cherry bomb. I don't know
Speaker 3: about it. Cherry bomb. The bomb means that it needs
Speaker 3: something to it. But I guess if you have it
Speaker 3: sparkly as I try to intend to do, it would
Speaker 3: have made it be like a bomb.
Speaker 2: And you had like if you had a cherry, like
Speaker 2: a whole cherry in it.
Speaker 3: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 2: I mean true, there's true. We can work on this.
Speaker 3: We're gonna work on this. But yeah, so that's it.
Speaker 3: That's the Yola Mezcal, y O l A Mezcal. And
Speaker 3: again they do have their own site and they do
Speaker 3: sell it on their site. I'm sure there may be
Speaker 3: regulations according to whichever state you are in. But if
Speaker 3: you might want to check and see if your local
Speaker 3: liquor store or packaging stores as some are called them,
Speaker 3: or not that weird.
Speaker 2: Don't get me started on weird alcohols.
Speaker 1: The red dot the South Carolina and the red dot
Speaker 1: that always threw me off.
Speaker 3: Anyway, perhaps you can go and grab a bottle. Support Uh,
Speaker 3: you know women led distilleries. There's not enough women in
Speaker 3: the industry. They even talked about how the pandemic did
Speaker 3: hit them much like many other businesses. So go and
Speaker 3: support women led businesses like this. And yeah, if you
Speaker 3: have it, if you like it, send us your cocktail
Speaker 3: recipe because we've got plenty left over. I know, I
Speaker 3: guess it's quite a bit home with Annie.
Speaker 4: It was very very nice of you. We got to
Speaker 4: hang out for the New Year's New Year celebration and
Speaker 4: you gave me some mescal to go.
Speaker 2: It was a wonderful experience.
Speaker 3: I'm the mama who sends home food with people. But yes,
Speaker 3: or liquor in this but yeah, so yeah, if you
Speaker 3: have other women led companies that you think we need
Speaker 3: a feature, please let us know.
Speaker 1: We would love to do so. We're always going.
Speaker 3: To keep doing this it may be a little more sparse,
Speaker 3: but we do want to keep recognizing the hard working
Speaker 3: women and non binary peoples who are doing this hard
Speaker 3: our work and amazing work, so that we continue to
Speaker 3: recognize them and uplift their businesses. Yes.
Speaker 4: Yes, and we were loosely at one point planning on
Speaker 4: doing like a a roundup of Sminty recipes. So if
Speaker 4: you have any cocktail recipes or just recipes in general, great,
Speaker 4: we would love to hear them. I think that'd be
Speaker 4: a great episode. Thank you as always to you Samantha
Speaker 4: for finding this for gifting me with alcohol.
Speaker 2: Though you should get reimbursed, you should do it this time,
Speaker 2: I do it.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it.
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