Mezcal is been around longer than tequila, that’s why mezcal is “the papa of tequila.”

When the Spanish arrived in the New World, they brought the scourge of disease and domination over the indigenous peoples. One beneficial thing they brought (for us) was the art of distillation.

For centuries before the Spanish arrived, the native people of what is now Mexico fermented the local agave plant to make a drink called pulque. With the new methods of distillation, the pulque became mezcal.

Mezcal is a distilled spirit made from the agave plant. It may be made from a number of different species of agave, and can is produced over a wide part of Mexico. This is opposed to Tequila, which is only made from the blue weber agave species and is predominantly made in the Mexican state of Jalisco.

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