I was in Oaxaca drinking an agave spirit that wasn’t an agave spirit. It was distilled from penca larga, which is a furcraea. I did the least amount of digging I could do on that — on furcraea — and stumbled on a book from 1899 that discusses the reordering of several other species: Bravoa, Polianthes, and Prochnyanthes. And that made me wonder … can those be used to make spirits? If so, are they, somewhere, being used for that purpose? And when those spirits enter the market, doesn’t that further confuse the conversation, which is already convoluted enough with people lumping Sotol into Agave Spirits. All of which makes me wonder … should we be using a different name for the category? Monocot spirits? Asparagales spirits? Agave Road Trip is a critically acclaimed, award-winning podcast that helps gringx bartenders better understand agave, agave spirits, and rural Mexico. This episode is hosted by Lou Bank with special guest Linda Sullivan of seynasecreto with wisdom from Dr. Hector Ortiz Cano of the Chicago Botanic Garden.