“With 38 to 40 percent alcohol in most bottles, tequila is no more potent that its fellow distilled spirits. And it has nothing to do with mind-bending cactus sap: tequila’s key ingredient is the blue agave, a member of the innocuous lily family. So if your last tequila session left you swearing never to touch the evil juice again, it’s probably because you machine-gunned the drinks straight into your bloodstream.”
Tequila
Eat magazine, issue 15
“With 38 to 40 percent alcohol in most bottles, tequila is no more potent that its fellow distilled spirits. And it has nothing to do with mind-bending cactus sap: tequila’s key ingredient is the blue agave, a member of the innocuous lily family. So if your last tequila session left you swearing never to touch the evil juice again, it’s probably because you machine-gunned the drinks straight into your bloodstream.”