| Effective February 10, no longer will distillers be able to add worms, fruit, nor herbs to bottles of their mescal liquor. |
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| When cooked, the mescal is a fibrous, sticky, syrupy substance with a flavor similar to molasses. |
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| After I left him on the tiles with my mescal, I ran and prayed for luck with keys. |
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| With a small cry, she tore at his clothes, pushed down his jeans and proved that the mescal worm was the luckiest bug in history. |
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| Staggering about out of your head is not, I assure you, quite the same as being manically inspired by mescal. |
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| She grinned through an ash-blond blur of beer and mescal, giggling against his shoulder. |
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| If you think the worm in bottle of mescal is strange, you really should have a talk with Jerry. |
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| Cheap, raw mescal, the stuff you could get for three bucks a bottle on the warmer side of the border. |
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| The indigenous peoples of central America produced a wine from the agave plant which they called mescal. |
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| The roasted bola could also be left to ferment, yielding a mildly alcoholic drink known as mescal crudo. |
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| Vargas plays Death, singing in a man's suit in a barroom with a bottle of mescal. |
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| In a ramshackle home-cum-studio, he drinks mescal, enjoys Mexican movies and radio, and avoids people and painting. |
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| Steady-handed, Mosby on his patio took ice with tongs, and poured more mescal flavored with gusano de maguey — a worm or slug of delicate flavor. |
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| But still, the rent must be paid and the mescal must be bought. |
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| In certain parts of the world mescal is called the Devil's Urine. |
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| As the story goes, gangster Al Capone smuggled mescal across the border and stayed in the village's first permanent rock structure, the Marine Club, a casino in Old Port. |
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| Speaking to Weiner is a bit like dosing up on espresso and mescal. |
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| Fair Trade products now include sugar, mescal and even soccer balls. |
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| As an accompaniment, mescal is the Oaxacan liquor of choice. |
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| The stem is particularly dense in carbohydrates immediately before flowering, and it is also the source of mescal alcohols and agave nectar. |
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| The arrival of the Spaniards in the 16th century also brought with it the distillation process and the production of agave wine, or mescal. |
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| In the 1870s several mescal distillers around the town of Tequila in the central Mexican state of Jalisco began making a superior version of the product. |
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| This reminded one student of the maguey, and he enthusiastically described to the class the process of making mescal and tequila from that cactus plant. |
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| The only problem with that story is they didn't start putting the worm in the mescal until 1950, when they had much more scientific ways of testing if a liquor was up to par. |
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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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| The sale, use, or possession of dried mescal buttons or live plants is prohibited by law in many places, although a number of areas also provide exemptions for use in formal religious rites. |
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| Early coconut distillation and the origins of mescal and tequila liquor in western Mexico. |
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| Red Eagle is wearing a mescal bean and metal bead bandolier over his left shoulder. |
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| The bar, The Vinatta Project, has an entire wall full of vending machines offering Johnnie Walker Blue, red wine, mescal or tequila. |
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| The spirit appeals to travelers who have tasted mescal in Mexico and to mixologists who have embraced the smoky spirit as a differentiating ingredient in cocktails. |
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