| For example, many cultures pride themselves on their foul-tasting local drinks, such as white lightning, pulque, chong, retsina, and so on. |
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| Not thinking much of the local cactus brew, Spanish conquistadors in Mexico begin distilling the Aztec's pulque and come up with a mezcal wine. |
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| The native Mexicans did, however, consume a mildly alcoholic beverage called pulque. |
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| This was essentially the diet of the peasant, with the addition of pulque, the fermented sap of the maguey, at higher altitudes. |
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| The most popular is Watermelon, made with fresh melon and lime juices, pulque, mescal and the herb epazote. |
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| When they died, Mr. Zamora said, they left their property to their gambling, liquor-loving son — his grandfather — who spent the family's pulque fortune and lost nearly all their substantial estate. |
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| It is also a major producer of rum, pulque and mezcal and even produces red wine. |
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| Tenochtitlán and Tlatelolco comprised more than 70 neighbourhoods, including some dedicated to specific tradespeople, such as goldsmiths or pulque brewers, and others occupied by foreigners. |
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| I had told Mr. Zamora, who often takes his guests to visit Tlaxcala's rural haciendas, about my appreciation of pulque — a viscous, white, lightly alcoholic beverage, historically brewed on these rural estates. |
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| Traditional beverages include pulque, aguamiel, aguardiente and mezcal as well as a purely local beverage called colonche, made by fermenting a cactus fruit. |
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