Ramón García Sánchez

Ramón García Sanchez, was born in 1987, and vividly remembers making his first batch of mezcal - pure Bicuixe - after finishing middle school in 2000, under the watchful eyes of his father, Constantino, and grandfather, Don Nicolás. His brother Wilfredo, aka Wili, was born in 1989, and also stepped into their grandfather’s palenque as a teenager to make his first batch in 2004. Risking everything, the two left shortly after accompanying Elvia, their older sister. They saved money from their time working in chicken processing plants and other gigs in the South, and boys returned home as young men ready to work the agave that their mother, Margarita, had been planting in their absence. Waiting for them, as well, were participatory rolls in the cooperative Grupo Logoche, founded in 2008 by their mother, uncles, and neighbors.

Soil types: colorada, roja, cascajudo, blanca, negra

Oven: 10-ton capacity, conical, earthen oven

Mashing: machete, axe, and shredder

Fermentation: 4 Montezuma cypress sabino wood tanks. 1200-liter capacity.

Distillation: Los Carnales use two different copper pot stills, one with a 250-liter capacity, and the other, slightly larger at 300 liters.