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Fellow Drammers!
We’re delighted to announce this special event on Mar. 16th at 8pm EST with the founders and distillers behind the wonderful Mezcal Tosba. We visited their distillery in October, when Elisandro very generously picked us up in Oaxaca Centro and drove us 5 hours North into the mountains of the Sierra Norte to visit their distillery which is truly beautiful beyond words. It feels like you’re on a movie set, the idyllic life of living off the land in the jungle of Mexico, where Edgar grows everything he wants to consume (even his own coffee!). Elisandro even studied distilling and blending with our friends at Kings County Distillery before moving back to Oaxaca after the pandemic hit. The name tosba is a reference a local phrase, where drinking friends are trying to get you to stay for one more drink. Come on, just one more, ok? One more. “Tosba”. Ha. This perfectly captures their wonderful and fun sensibilities, and a little bit of their rebellion. After all, everyone in their town thought they were nuts for sinking everything they had into building the first distillery in the area (that, btw, is where the name for the rum brand comes from “dakabend”, which we’ll also be trying). In fact, we’ll be trying not only their unaged rum, which you can find here in the US, but also one of the very few bottles of their aged rum (they only have like 4 barrels of it total, and as far as we know you can only get it at the distillery, which of course we did. We have a little less than a full bottle of that, so it might be a smaller pour, FYI. We’ll also be trying several of their mezcal: Due Warash, Tobala and Tepextate for sure, maybe more, we’ll see, but at least those 5 expressions (3 mezcal, 2 rum). Btw, they were featured on an episode of NPR all about their incredible journey which you can find here:
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/02/04/269483956/can-homemade-liquor-jumpstart-a-local-economy
And we’re delighted of course to welcome Elisandro as our guest speaker (we’ll try to get him to rope his brother in if he has time). Elisandro joined us briefly for our online murder mystery holiday party, as well as the kickoff event of our Drammers Oaxaca chapter last month btw. Great stuff.
We hope you can join us!
$40/person for Drammers Members
$55/ person for Drammers Observers