Elizabeth Guagrilla recalls the sunny days of her childhood in the Ecuadorian highlands, drinking the sweet nectar of the blue agave plant on visits to her great-grandmother’s house. Back then, she wasn’t a fan of its earthy taste. Now, she’s made it her life’s work to bring agave to a global audience, carrying on a tradition that was dying out with the older generations. Guagrilla is the head distiller of Chawar, a company that produces an emerging agave spirit called miske, a distilled version of the agave sap that became…
