Distillery Diary: Episode 05

Agave plants sprout ‘hijuelos’ throughout their growing life, which are exact clones of the main plant.

Some people replant these hijuelos and allow them to grow to full size and use them to distill. However, we grow all our agave from seed to allow for a strong genetic diversification of our crop.

So instead, we cut the hijuelos away from the mother agaves so they don’t suck the nutrients from them, allowing our agaves to grow strong and healthy.