This is part 3.  To read part 2, Click Here. Pulque production is a long and delicate process.  The maguey plant needs twelve years of maturation before the sap, or aguamiel, can be extracted, but a good plant can produce for up to one year.  This aguamiel can be drunk straight, but it is alcoholic only after a fermentation process that can start in the plant itself.  This liquid is collect... more.

This is part 2.  To read part 1, click here. For the Indians of the central highlands of Mexico, the imbibing of pulque was done only by certain people, under certain conditions. It was a ritual drink, consumed during certain festivals, such as that of the goddess Mayahuel, and the god Mixcoatl. It was drunk by priests and sacrificial victims, to increase the priests' enthusiasm and to ease th... more.