Agave Road Trip sifts through fact and fiction surrounding agave spirits. Hosts Lou Bank and Salvador “Chava” Peribán serve as tour guides for gringo bartenders, sharing firsthand knowledge about heritage agave spirits in rural Mexico. This month, Agave Road Trip celebrates one year on HRN. In commemoration of their first...

Fall’s arrival is accompanied by colorful leaves and cool weather, as well as a new season of food podcasts here at HRN. This episode of Meat and Three is jam-packed with sneak peeks into our newest series. We’ll journey across the U.S. and around the world with chefs, entrepreneurs, and...

This week we wrap up the Agave Road trip with Lou Bank and Chava Periban. They discuss some of their favourite aspects of agave and the community around it. We'll be presenting an episode of their first season every Sunday this summer, but if you want to listen to them...

This week we're presenting another episode of Agave Road Trip. On this episode, Lou Bank and Chava Periban talk about the distillation process. Though a simple process, it is an essential step in production. We'll be presenting an episode of their first season every Sunday this summer, but if you...

Dr. Roberto Zenit is a highly regarded professor at Brown University. Nonetheless, he speaks with us about his recently released study of las perlas, the process by which maestro mezcaleros use the bubbles in their agave spirits to measure the alcohol content and quality of the spirits. Find extra photos...

This week we're presenting another episode of Agave Road Trip. After you cook your agave, you’ve gotta mill it – make tiny, little pieces of those giant, cooked agaves. How do you do that?Lou Bank and Chava Periban explain it here and maestro mezcalero Eduardo Angeles joins. Then we talk...

This week we're presenting another episode of Agave Road Trip. In episode 3, Lou Bank and Chava Periban talk about roasting agave. This is one of the hardest parts of the process and if you don't get it just right, you can lose a lot of it. We'll be presenting...

This week we're presenting the first episode of Agave Road Trip. Agave Road Trip is a new series from HRN that provides gringo bartenders with firsthand knowledge about heritage agave spirits from Mexico, including mezcal, raicilla, bacanora, and destilado de agave. In episode 1 our friends Lou Bank and Chava...

Today we feature episode 1 of Agave Road Trip. Agave Road Trip provides gringo bartenders with firsthand knowledge about heritage agave spirits from Mexico, including mezcal, raicilla, bacanora, and destilado de agave. But before we the episode we sit down with hosts Lou Bank and Chava Periban, plus Salvador Chavez...

We introduce ourselves and the series, but mainly because we felt obligated to do it. We think it’s more fun to let that information reveal itself naturally. Though there is a nice bit about mind-blowing arroqueño and Santa Maria Sola de Vega. Find extra photos and related links at agaveroadtrip.com...