What colonel during the Mexican Revolution owned a factory that distilled an alcoholic beverage made from any type of agave plant native to Mexico?
Mezcal Mezcal (or mescal) ( ) is a distilled alcoholic beverage made from any type of agave plant native to Mexico. The word "mezcal" comes from Nahuatl "mexcalli" ] "metl" ] and "ixcalli" ] which means "oven-cooked agave".
Hacienda San José de Miravalle Hacienda San José de Miravalle is a former mezcal-producing hacienda and currently a rural inactive community of the municipality of San Martín de Hidalgo in central Jalisco, Mexico. During the early twentieth-century, the hacienda was known for its productivity of mezcal business until the Mexican agrarian reform and other uprisings caused it dissolution.