What happens when you eat the worm in tequila?

There are no proven side effects that come with consuming a Tequila worm. While the worm is popularly called the tequila worm, it is only found on the bottom of a bottle of mezcal, a variety of tequila obtained from distilling blue agave and similar plants.

Does the worm in Mezcal do anything?

Depending on who you ask, the worm has the powers of an aphrodisiac, can make you hallucinate, or will make you look hella dope in front of your friends. That last one might be true, but eating the worm won’t really accomplish anything other than making you a little drunker thanks to the alcohol it has absorbed.

Does the mezcal worm make you hallucinate?

The worm does not give you hallucinations, and it is not an aphrodisiac. The credit here goes to the amount of Tequila or Mezcal a person consumes. Oddly enough, there are many kinds of gusano de maguey (Agave Worms), but only the Chinicuil Gusano is used. So, when you eat the worm, you are partaking in tradition.

Does eating the worm make you drunk?

Does the tequila worm get you drunk? No, although it’s soaked and pickled in mezcal, there isn’t enough booze on the warm itself to get you drunk. The shots you take to build yourself up to eating it however, might just do the job.

What is the liquor with the worm in it?

mezcal
So tequila is a type of mezcal, but mezcal is not tequila, and only mezcal has worms. According to Anthony Dias Blue’s Complete Book of Spirits, that “worm” is actually a larva from one of two types of moths, known as maguey worms, that live on the agave plant.

Why there is a worm in your Tequila?

Some think the worm in the bottle started as a marketing ploy , to get people to drink more mezcal in the 1940s and 1950s. Tequila was flooding the American market and mezcal needed a way to stand out.

What Tequila has the worm in it?

While the worm is popularly called the tequila worm , it is only found on the bottom of a bottle of mezcal, a variety of tequila obtained from distilling blue agave and similar plants. The meriposa worm is grown on agave from which mezcal is made, and when a worm is added to the mezcal, it is known as mezcal con gusano.

What is the story behind the worm in Tequila?

The Real Story Behind The Tequila Worm. The worm itself is actually a moth larvae called a gusano de maguey—since it feeds off of the maguey plant. If they weren’t being drowned in booze, each of these little guys would actually turn into a night butterfly called the Mariposa. And believe it or not, gusano de maguey are eaten,…

Is there really a worm in a bottle of tequila?

There has never been a “worm” at the bottom of a Tequila bottle. Tequila to be Tequila must contain 51\% Blue Agave. There is a law in Jalisco , Mexico – where ALL Tequilas originate and are controlled very carefully – which makes it illegal to put any insect or larvae into a bottle of Tequila.