pacificobob - 1-5-2017 at 07:43 AM
from huffington post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com.mx/2016/12/05/bat-friendly-par...
It is very simple, without bats there is neither tequila nor mezcal. That is why under an initiative of the National Autonomous University of Mexico
(UNAM), four brands of tequila and mezcal launched the first 300 thousand bottles of these beverages with the distinctive "Bat Friendly".
The project was joined by the Tequila Interchange Project and aims to rescue the genetic diversity of the agaves, which is carried out naturally by
pollination of bats.
In this way, the bottles that carry the hologram "Bat Friendly" will indicate which drinks come from crops where 5% of the agaves per hectare,
approximately 200 plants, are allowed to flourish so that the bats can feed on their pollen and in turn The task of pollination.
The fastest creature in the world
"Sacrificing 200 plants per hectare implies making an investment of 80 thousand pesos in agaves that are not going to be used to produce tequila, it
is an economic effort of us producers, but we are seeing it as an investment because we are not only propitiating the survival of the Bat, is that of
tequila itself, "said Carlos Camarena, director of Tequila Tapatío, one of the four tequila houses that make up the pilot project to El Norte.
BigBearRider - 1-5-2017 at 07:51 AM
How interesting!
bajabuddha - 1-5-2017 at 08:55 AM
No wonder the bat caves on Ted Turner's ranch up here smell like rot-gut Tekillya! 
chuckie - 1-5-2017 at 11:39 AM
Didn't see you turnin it down when we wuz up there....
bajagrouper - 1-6-2017 at 03:36 PM
Weber Blue Agave used to make Tequila never is allowed to flower, if it did all the carbs would be used to produce the stalk and flower so no carbs to
turn into the sugars needed for the fermentation process...
Blue Agave is propagated by off shoots the parent plant gives off at the soil line.
Maybe some wild agaves that flower are pollenated by bats but the production of Tequila does not use wild agaves, some Mescals are made from wild
agaves.
Remember:
All Tequilas are Mescals but not all Mescals are Tequila.
[Edited on 1-6-2017 by bajagrouper]
blackwolfmt - 1-6-2017 at 06:12 PM
GRT info thanks