You are referring to the Blue Agave, which is actually not a cactus at all. It is a member of the lily family.
It is called tequila because it is made from parts of a particular cactus plant. Alcohol made from potatoes is called vodka.
Better (and the best) tequilas are distilled from 100% blue agave. However, by law, liquors can still be called tequila if they are made from more than 50% blue agave and the remainder from cane sugar. These tequilas are referred to as mixtos.
It is a liquor similar to tequila - made from the mescal cactus.
It is not a cactus at all, it is the Blue Agave that is used to make tequila. Agave plants are succulents not cacti.
In the state of Jalisco, Mexico. The first distributor was in 1795, a distillery called Rojena in a small town called teuchitlan
Tequila (it is still made)
No. Tequila is made from Agave, and sugar. (Agave is a cactus type desert plant, similar to Yucca in appearance.)
During the 1940s and 1950s, they made furniture from the cholla (aka jumping cactus) plant. That included those lamps that had the cactus skeleton as the base. Tequila is made from agave cacti.
Mezcal is a relative of tequila except the agave cactus is smoked over a fire before fermenting. You might be able to substitute tequila, but they do have different tastes.
As far as I know the only alcoholic beverages made from Agave (not a cactus) are Mezcal and Tequila. Agave is a succulent, not a cactus.
TEQUILA, an alcoholic beverage (usually associated with Mexico), made from the agave plant (which resembles a cactus, but is not).
NO, the "worm" burrows into the cactus causing it to swell in reaction. after the cactus is harvested and processed and eventually made into tequila SOME manufacturers add one of these larva, not really a worm, to the bottle. Not sure if the larve from the actual cacti make it into the bottle, probably they are raised apart, exclusively for the bottles.