Tequila Dream

[mash rookie]

Okay, I know this is crazy but I had a dream last night about a tequila recipe. I am going to have to try it. Tequila is the one recipe that we have not been able to mimic.

Here are my thoughts and plans. I have a couple of bottles of Agave syrup. I am going to use them with………..Garbanzo beans. Yeah crazy huh? I think my flute might pull this off.

Here is the part I think we may be missing. Backset. Even if we are not getting our hands on the plants or enough Agave syrup for conventional Tequila, maybe we can achieve good flavor by using backset.

My plan. I will nock up five gallons with my two bottles of agave syrup. I will run it and keep it as feints after tasting. I will use backset to nock up another batch. Maybe even boil the backset for awhile to concentrate it.

Of course, I will have to buy some tequila to do flavor comparing and see what we might do from there.

Not only did I dream this, in the next dream I was explaining it to someone. Crazy.

I know what instigated this. My girlfriend asked me last night why I did not make Tequila. I said, we cant get the plants and we don’t know how to fake it..


Crazy

[Bushman]

We get ideas and we experiment with them this is normal, when we start having dreams at night about them I fear it is becomes all incompassing. Let us know your results, I believe there is also another substitute for the agave plant that a member from Texas mentions in another thread!

[mash rookie]

Yes, I need a vacation. Crazy.

[Dnderhead]

using the syrups from anything is not going to git you there.the impurities add so much.
most have been "cleared" so much that the flavor has been removed.this goes for most all the
syrups.be it corn,algarve etc. or even fruit juice.you mite make something that is "OK" but not
the same..

[mash rookie]

using the syrups from anything is not going to git you there.the impurities add so much.
most have been "cleared" so much that the flavor has been removed.this goes for most all the
syrups.be it corn,algarve etc. or even fruit juice.you mite make something that is "OK" but not
the same..

Yes, even if backset helps concentrate flavors it might take twenty generations to get there. By then what flavor are you going to have? I cant help but think that someday we can figure out how to mimic tequila.

[rtalbigr]

Hope ya can figure somethin out here MR. I have a really weak spot for good tequila.

Big R

[Dnderhead]

"I have a really weak spot for good tequila.""
move to Mexico???

[blind drunk]

"I have a dream ... to make Tequila from Garbanzo beans."

Has a nice ring to it. Good luck.

[WalkingWolf]

A dream with direction = a vision

good luck (and cut back on the pepper with your evening meals )

[mash rookie]

If i cant inspire you guys at least I can make you laugh......And I will try the garbanzo beans... Bushman maybe right, I might need a HD intervention..

[rtalbigr]

"I have a really weak spot for good tequila.""
move to Mexico???

Might not be a bad idea if they weren't killin everybody down there. I don't like tequila that good.

Big R

[Mashy]

I've tried the raw blue agave syrup route. If you're hell bent on trying this you can get a couple large bottles off of Amazon pretty cheap. If I remember right I used the two bottles and 2 or 3 lbs of sugar. The end result was nothing like tequila or anything else I have ever tried. It wasn't good different either. It was shit. Found out later they ferment tequila on the actual baked agave root. Who knew?