Going to need a new name. Four Peaks ( https://www.fourpeaks.com/ ) is the name of a brewery in Tempe, AZ. Their flagship product is Kilt Lifter. The brewery is named after the large landform in the nearby Mazatzel (pronounced as Mad-as-Hell) Mts ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Peaks ).
Not a big tequila fan, but I’d buy a few bottles. They need to set up their own bottling company, named Four Peaks Bottling (credit — JTC) with their number one item being Two SIsters Tequila. (Alternative name Twin Sisters Tequila) Surefire winner!
Cannot take credit where it is not due…Four Peaks is Kafiroon’s…the edit for Four Peeks is mine. Because like I asked Chris up there when he handed out the chicken dinner, what good are Peaks without Peeks???
Out here in the People’s Republic of Californiastan we have a fun piece of vegetation which by many is called “Jerusalem Thorn.” It is a stringy green bush with small leaves and HUGE thorns. Well, inch to inch and a half on the bushes we had here. The thorns could penetrate the soles of sneakers easily. Leather soles were not quite so easy but it could happen.
We also had a problem with people “assuming” the property was public land. There was a 6′ fence they’d go over. Admittedly it saved them a 10 minute detour if they were walking. But my partner and I were unsympathetic to this due to some of them making messes and at least one break-in attempt.
I betcha see where this is going already.
Welp, we wanted to get rid of the infernal stuff. So I started with some pruning shears, heavy gloves, and some chutzpah. I at least got the two big bushes, about 30′ apart, un-interlocked. I also got a large number of fairly large branches. I had to put them somewhere – and I am indeed that kind of lady.
For some reason the intrusions mysteriously ceased.
When I first bought the house, I had a problem with neighbourhood kids using my yard as a shortcut to the corner store, there was a deep path worn the length of the backyard since going down my driveway, across the yard and through the neighbour’s driveway behind us saved a good half block’s walk and the yard was between the high school and that store.
Tried asking politely and got the expected answer.
Put up a fence, it got knocked down.
Put up fences at both ends of the yard, same thing.
Finally filled the back of the yard with blackberry canes about six feet deep.
That mostly solved the problem, the boards with nails in them ‘forgotten while fixing the fence’ lying in the midst of the patch did the rest.
Next step was going to be doing some gardening…planting landmines…luckily it didn’t come to that.
I do like blackberries though 🙂
“a stringy green bush with small leaves and HUGE thorns. Well, inch to inch and a half”
Out here in AZ, the ocotillo fills this niche. We lose tires to it. And yes, I’ve had it come up through shoes. At least it isn’t barbed like the chollas.
Perhaps they could create a suitable mixed drink, advertising the brand with it as a ‘Two Sisters Tequila Moonrise’. Suitable ad images could doubtlessly be obtained.
I imagine a bottle much like Chris’ DBD pens that allow the ladies to bare interesting parts (or the gentlemen for our female readers,) each time one fills a glass…
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Good idea, I like it.
BUT……
Still going to take awhile before they see the first dollar of income.
Need to plant, grow, harvest, process, ferment, age, and bottle before they can sell.
Need to hire/fire workers and a manager who knows how to process from plant to pint.
Then there’s the purchase and maintenance of the still and the barrels…..
OR……
They grow the plants, and then have someone else already established come and do the above paragraphs (hopefully for less cost then setting themselves up), then return bottled or barrels of tequila.
Well… Time isn’t really a factor at DBD. The twins went from prepubescents to topless in a couple of years. A tequila distillery should be profitable in about 12 months.
Next Christmas it’ll rounds of margaritas!
Many a distillery has started by buying the agave juice and fermenting, distilling, ageing, and bottling it while waiting for their crop of agave to mature. The weather extremes of west Texas should aid the ageing process. Much like Bourbon barrels, their will be an aggressive demand for the used Tequila barrels from distilleries in Scotland.
Unless it is an estate bottled winery, a winery sources their grapes from elsewhere.
The pulp fiber, or bagazo, left over after the agave pinas are harvested, baked, and mashed makes excellent animal feed resulting in a lot of happy, healthy, productive dairy and beef cattle.
Growing and harvesting the pinas is largely manual labor, but once established, there is little required in the way of cultivation other than cutting off the flowering stalks when they appear every few years. The blue agave will self-propagate and choke out everything else.
A mature pina grown in the lowlands of Brewster County, TX will average 150 pounds, while those grown in the uplands, above 5000, feet will average 240 pounds making the yield to labor required much higher than that of grapes, barley, corn, rye, and wheat.
It is, though no one liked the reminder a couple days ago. That said,
1 – there are some very cool terms American distillers are coming up with to not have to bother with such laws, and no one who tastes it will doubt that it’s simply tequila with a more northerly source
2 – tequila is a subset of mezcal, much like a square is a subset of rectangle, so there are options even from the original
November 30, 2023 at 11:25 am
Oldarmourer
‘Kickapoo joy Juice’ is already taken.
How about ‘DD Stupid Sauce” 😉
“There’s a pine slab shack on the prairie;
That’s home to the Double-D Girls.
They make the finest te-quiii-laaaaa!
What they doesn’t drink they sells!
The first time I seen the Double-D Girls
They were drivin’ a blue Cadillac
With a longhorn on the front bumper
and a full hogshead in the back!
When you come by next Monday
Please bring me a jug or five;
When the sun comes up on Thurrrsdaaayyy,
Don’t figger to be alive!
Wake up, wake up, Double-D Girls!
What makes you sleep so sound?
The orders just keep on a cooomiiiin’
Now get up and make your rooouuuunds!
With a hat tip to the Kingston Trio/Darlin’ Corrie
Zar Belk!
November 30, 2023 at 10:30 am
C. M.
My old man calls it “tekillya”. Should be sufficiently different and still convey the message…
The Two Sisters name is great as well as four peaks bottling Co. Maybe sell it in “uniquely” shaped, lifesize bottles, shrink wrapped in flesh tone, (get my drift?) Sell them 4 bottles at the time in a unique container that that tastefully displays the cleavage and call it a double rack. When you visit your local beverage store just ask for a Two Sisters’ Double Rack.
Tequila can only be called tequila if it is made from 100 percent Blue Weber agave and produced in the state of Jalisco, Mexico, as well as some municipalities in Guanajuato, Michoacán, Nayarit, and Tamaulipas. Anything else made with Blue Weber Agave outside these areas, or from agave that is not Blue Agave, is not legally tequila.
Trade agreements between Mexico and other countries ensure that this designation is followed — so what happens when an enterprising individual wants to make tequila in another country, like the United States? They’re stuck referring to the resulting liquid as the very unsexy: “spirit distilled/produced from 100 percent Blue Agave.” Some producers have tried to give this spirit names that sound similar to tequila — Temequila is one such example given to a liquid made identically in Temecula, Calif., to the process used to make tequila — but these names, despite how clever, all risk cease-and-desist orders and potential lawsuits.
It’s like Ouso. That is The Greek name only, Raki, is about the same only it’s Turkey, Arak, is Israel. There are more, all similar, all with local added flavors/spices, all with different names because of made in different countries laws etc.
Well, she’ll be sourcing part of her supply from Roma, which at one point was a part of the Tamaulipas territory, so maybe there’s a little wiggle room here.
One of my Eagle Scouts is heavily involved in selling tequila and has posted on the process when visiting growers. It takes about 5 years to go from planting to harvesting. Illegal aliens will trample the young plants before they become formidable.
The young man’s father owns a liquor store in Chicago. Just before the pandemic he took a lease on the storefront next door and turned it into an upscale speakeasy-style establishment. He’s got around 100 different kinds of tequila and related liquors. It’s made several publications’ lists of “Places to go in Chicago”, his guests have included the Mayor of Chicago and he’s been making a name for himself. It’s great to see.
November 30, 2023 at 12:51 pm
Hotrod Lincoln
To protect the cash crop from getting damaged by the “undocumented tourists”, it would be a good idea to plant a perimeter fence of Cholla cactus about 20 feet wide!
“Four Peaks”
Pure Texas-Loudmouth Soup
Try it you’ll like it, Guaranteed to make the girls in YOUR Bar look like the girls that grow and bottle it, (at least sort of)…
No need to wait until closing time for the Girls to get Prettier.
And friskier,
“One shot I can feel it, Three shots anybody Can”-actual testimony from a UT cheerleader
Pssst…the guy that names it should get a Cameo in a toon.
Some years back there was a contest for Naming the Bar, with a cameo as the prize. I won! Then the story line changed and the “Long Shot Bar” was never built. My chance at infamy and fame went down the ice Tub drain.
“I had a bright future, sometime way back in my Past”
Somebody mentioned Texquilla as an alternate name. Texkeela or Texqueela could work too. And if the finished product was 100 proof they could use that “bottled in bond” thing that the bourbon folks go for. I’ve never seen 100 proof tequila, but come on, it’s from Texas so being 25% stronger than usual would have it’s own appeal.
I came up with Texquila yesterday, but any of the ‘Tex’ variations would work. I actually like the Texquilla suggestion best, and make the l’s silent. That would be true to Texican language heritage and further distance it from Tequila both in spelling and phonetically. It would be far more likely to take hold than Temiquila. Temecula is just a region of a lesser
state. Texas is a state that was formerly a country and has an independent heritage that a little region in a smaller state simply lacks. I think it would be prudent to follow suit to Tequila and make Texquilla strictly a Texas product, forbidding anything made outside of Texas from being called Texquilla.
Plant some Russian olive trees as a hedge, they are impenetrable, filled with massive amounts of brutal 2inch thorns . Anything gets through them , just follow the blood trail.
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I like it! True about the quiet ones.
Sounds like a win win situation… 🙂
Call it 4Peaks.
Or 4Peeks!
Winner winner chicken dinner, Kafiroon
But, but…but what are Peaks without Peeks????
That’s what Peaks are for! Sightseeing!
Roger that
Going to need a new name. Four Peaks ( https://www.fourpeaks.com/ ) is the name of a brewery in Tempe, AZ. Their flagship product is Kilt Lifter. The brewery is named after the large landform in the nearby Mazatzel (pronounced as Mad-as-Hell) Mts ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Peaks ).
I thot the whole joke was that he already knew that!
I’d buy a bottle or three.
Tequila, or maybe Mescal, for the discerning palate….
I cannot stomach Tequila, but I would buy a bottle or two just to keep on hand
Not a big tequila fan, but I’d buy a few bottles. They need to set up their own bottling company, named Four Peaks Bottling (credit — JTC) with their number one item being Two SIsters Tequila. (Alternative name Twin Sisters Tequila) Surefire winner!
Cannot take credit where it is not due…Four Peaks is Kafiroon’s…the edit for Four Peeks is mine. Because like I asked Chris up there when he handed out the chicken dinner, what good are Peaks without Peeks???
Might have a problem with the name, as there already is a Four Peaks Brewery, started here in Aridzona. But I like the idea….
Out here in the People’s Republic of Californiastan we have a fun piece of vegetation which by many is called “Jerusalem Thorn.” It is a stringy green bush with small leaves and HUGE thorns. Well, inch to inch and a half on the bushes we had here. The thorns could penetrate the soles of sneakers easily. Leather soles were not quite so easy but it could happen.
We also had a problem with people “assuming” the property was public land. There was a 6′ fence they’d go over. Admittedly it saved them a 10 minute detour if they were walking. But my partner and I were unsympathetic to this due to some of them making messes and at least one break-in attempt.
I betcha see where this is going already.
Welp, we wanted to get rid of the infernal stuff. So I started with some pruning shears, heavy gloves, and some chutzpah. I at least got the two big bushes, about 30′ apart, un-interlocked. I also got a large number of fairly large branches. I had to put them somewhere – and I am indeed that kind of lady.
For some reason the intrusions mysteriously ceased.
{^_-}
Sometimes a thorny problem has a thorny solution.
When I first bought the house, I had a problem with neighbourhood kids using my yard as a shortcut to the corner store, there was a deep path worn the length of the backyard since going down my driveway, across the yard and through the neighbour’s driveway behind us saved a good half block’s walk and the yard was between the high school and that store.
Tried asking politely and got the expected answer.
Put up a fence, it got knocked down.
Put up fences at both ends of the yard, same thing.
Finally filled the back of the yard with blackberry canes about six feet deep.
That mostly solved the problem, the boards with nails in them ‘forgotten while fixing the fence’ lying in the midst of the patch did the rest.
Next step was going to be doing some gardening…planting landmines…luckily it didn’t come to that.
I do like blackberries though 🙂
“a stringy green bush with small leaves and HUGE thorns. Well, inch to inch and a half”
Out here in AZ, the ocotillo fills this niche. We lose tires to it. And yes, I’ve had it come up through shoes. At least it isn’t barbed like the chollas.
Perhaps they could create a suitable mixed drink, advertising the brand with it as a ‘Two Sisters Tequila Moonrise’. Suitable ad images could doubtlessly be obtained.
I imagine a bottle much like Chris’ DBD pens that allow the ladies to bare interesting parts (or the gentlemen for our female readers,) each time one fills a glass…
Good idea, I like it.
BUT……
Still going to take awhile before they see the first dollar of income.
Need to plant, grow, harvest, process, ferment, age, and bottle before they can sell.
Need to hire/fire workers and a manager who knows how to process from plant to pint.
Then there’s the purchase and maintenance of the still and the barrels…..
OR……
They grow the plants, and then have someone else already established come and do the above paragraphs (hopefully for less cost then setting themselves up), then return bottled or barrels of tequila.
Well… Time isn’t really a factor at DBD. The twins went from prepubescents to topless in a couple of years. A tequila distillery should be profitable in about 12 months.
Next Christmas it’ll rounds of margaritas!
Many a distillery has started by buying the agave juice and fermenting, distilling, ageing, and bottling it while waiting for their crop of agave to mature. The weather extremes of west Texas should aid the ageing process. Much like Bourbon barrels, their will be an aggressive demand for the used Tequila barrels from distilleries in Scotland.
Unless it is an estate bottled winery, a winery sources their grapes from elsewhere.
The pulp fiber, or bagazo, left over after the agave pinas are harvested, baked, and mashed makes excellent animal feed resulting in a lot of happy, healthy, productive dairy and beef cattle.
Growing and harvesting the pinas is largely manual labor, but once established, there is little required in the way of cultivation other than cutting off the flowering stalks when they appear every few years. The blue agave will self-propagate and choke out everything else.
A mature pina grown in the lowlands of Brewster County, TX will average 150 pounds, while those grown in the uplands, above 5000, feet will average 240 pounds making the yield to labor required much higher than that of grapes, barley, corn, rye, and wheat.
Tequila makes me make bad decisions-the first of which is always that I can handle tequila…..
The quiet ones are always watchin’, always thinkin’.
According to U.S. law tequila must be manufactured in Mexico in accordance with Mexican laws. Gonna need a different name.
Is that true?
It is, though no one liked the reminder a couple days ago. That said,
1 – there are some very cool terms American distillers are coming up with to not have to bother with such laws, and no one who tastes it will doubt that it’s simply tequila with a more northerly source
2 – tequila is a subset of mezcal, much like a square is a subset of rectangle, so there are options even from the original
‘Kickapoo joy Juice’ is already taken.
How about ‘DD Stupid Sauce” 😉
Better yet STUPOR Sauce!
“There’s a pine slab shack on the prairie;
That’s home to the Double-D Girls.
They make the finest te-quiii-laaaaa!
What they doesn’t drink they sells!
The first time I seen the Double-D Girls
They were drivin’ a blue Cadillac
With a longhorn on the front bumper
and a full hogshead in the back!
When you come by next Monday
Please bring me a jug or five;
When the sun comes up on Thurrrsdaaayyy,
Don’t figger to be alive!
Wake up, wake up, Double-D Girls!
What makes you sleep so sound?
The orders just keep on a cooomiiiin’
Now get up and make your rooouuuunds!
With a hat tip to the Kingston Trio/Darlin’ Corrie
Zar Belk!
My old man calls it “tekillya”. Should be sufficiently different and still convey the message…
Just thinking of that great country Song “Tequila makes her(their!) clothes fall off!”
The Two Sisters name is great as well as four peaks bottling Co. Maybe sell it in “uniquely” shaped, lifesize bottles, shrink wrapped in flesh tone, (get my drift?) Sell them 4 bottles at the time in a unique container that that tastefully displays the cleavage and call it a double rack. When you visit your local beverage store just ask for a Two Sisters’ Double Rack.
From Vinepair.com
Tequila can only be called tequila if it is made from 100 percent Blue Weber agave and produced in the state of Jalisco, Mexico, as well as some municipalities in Guanajuato, Michoacán, Nayarit, and Tamaulipas. Anything else made with Blue Weber Agave outside these areas, or from agave that is not Blue Agave, is not legally tequila.
Trade agreements between Mexico and other countries ensure that this designation is followed — so what happens when an enterprising individual wants to make tequila in another country, like the United States? They’re stuck referring to the resulting liquid as the very unsexy: “spirit distilled/produced from 100 percent Blue Agave.” Some producers have tried to give this spirit names that sound similar to tequila — Temequila is one such example given to a liquid made identically in Temecula, Calif., to the process used to make tequila — but these names, despite how clever, all risk cease-and-desist orders and potential lawsuits.
Maybe just translate tequila to Japanese – Tekīra?
It’s like Ouso. That is The Greek name only, Raki, is about the same only it’s Turkey, Arak, is Israel. There are more, all similar, all with local added flavors/spices, all with different names because of made in different countries laws etc.
Well, she’ll be sourcing part of her supply from Roma, which at one point was a part of the Tamaulipas territory, so maybe there’s a little wiggle room here.
One of my Eagle Scouts is heavily involved in selling tequila and has posted on the process when visiting growers. It takes about 5 years to go from planting to harvesting. Illegal aliens will trample the young plants before they become formidable.
“One of my Eagle Scouts is heavily involved in selling tequila”
This is quite possibly the first time this sentence has ever been written.
LOL you may be right!
The young man’s father owns a liquor store in Chicago. Just before the pandemic he took a lease on the storefront next door and turned it into an upscale speakeasy-style establishment. He’s got around 100 different kinds of tequila and related liquors. It’s made several publications’ lists of “Places to go in Chicago”, his guests have included the Mayor of Chicago and he’s been making a name for himself. It’s great to see.
To protect the cash crop from getting damaged by the “undocumented tourists”, it would be a good idea to plant a perimeter fence of Cholla cactus about 20 feet wide!
“Four Peaks”
Pure Texas-Loudmouth Soup
Try it you’ll like it, Guaranteed to make the girls in YOUR Bar look like the girls that grow and bottle it, (at least sort of)…
No need to wait until closing time for the Girls to get Prettier.
And friskier,
“One shot I can feel it, Three shots anybody Can”-actual testimony from a UT cheerleader
Pssst…the guy that names it should get a Cameo in a toon.
Some years back there was a contest for Naming the Bar, with a cameo as the prize. I won! Then the story line changed and the “Long Shot Bar” was never built. My chance at infamy and fame went down the ice Tub drain.
“I had a bright future, sometime way back in my Past”
Yup—It’s the quiet ones. I’m reminded every time I hear CSN do “Fair Game”.
Somebody mentioned Texquilla as an alternate name. Texkeela or Texqueela could work too. And if the finished product was 100 proof they could use that “bottled in bond” thing that the bourbon folks go for. I’ve never seen 100 proof tequila, but come on, it’s from Texas so being 25% stronger than usual would have it’s own appeal.
I came up with Texquila yesterday, but any of the ‘Tex’ variations would work. I actually like the Texquilla suggestion best, and make the l’s silent. That would be true to Texican language heritage and further distance it from Tequila both in spelling and phonetically. It would be far more likely to take hold than Temiquila. Temecula is just a region of a lesser
state. Texas is a state that was formerly a country and has an independent heritage that a little region in a smaller state simply lacks. I think it would be prudent to follow suit to Tequila and make Texquilla strictly a Texas product, forbidding anything made outside of Texas from being called Texquilla.
“Texaquilla” rolls off the tongue better, at least when ordering the first one.
Plant some Russian olive trees as a hedge, they are impenetrable, filled with massive amounts of brutal 2inch thorns . Anything gets through them , just follow the blood trail.