feral trade mezcal Cuish Literally the spirit of Mexican agave, a large succulent plant which grows to up to 25 years then flowers once before death. Mezcal is single-distilled from the hearts of mature agave which are roasted under hot stones for 3 days then mashed and left to ferment. The energy of a decade or so of plant life goes into the drink. Cuish is a type of agave, it also is a business proposition. The Cuish Mezcaleria in Oaxaca works with 36 producers and 8-10 agave types, mixing local art/music with the primarily wild-harvest mezcals it distributes. The Cuish Mezcal is not officially classified for export, for which you need tentacles to government, so as an internationally traded product it requires a wormhole such as Feral Trade. ferally traded since: 22/11/12. FER-1715 Mezcalería Cuish Oaxaca, Mexico to Feral Trade Bristol, UK dispatched 22/11/12 delivered 30/11/12 mezcal Cuish shipment FER-1715 REMARKS: One bottle of wildharvested mezcal from the Arraqueño agave type, wrapped in spare clothes & couriered back to UK to try its luck with the English drinking palette. QTY: 1 units at bottle each FROM: Mezcalería Cuish in Oaxaca, Mexico http://mezcalcuish.com TO: Feral Trade in Bristol, UK http://feraltrade.org SENDER: Cuish RECEIVER: kate rich REQUESTED: to ship between 23/11/12 and 30/11/12 STATUS: delivered Feral Trade 30/11/12 MAP route map www.feraltrade.org COURIER: kate rich  minerva cuevas  Dorota Prymek  Jaime Boyso  TOTAL ROUTE:  Mezcalería Cuish-guesthouse Maria-Oaxaca bus station-Puebla bus station-Cholula bus station-Mexico TAPO bus station-Mejor Vida Corporation-Mexico City Benito Juarez airport-Newark Liberty airport-London Heathrow Airport-Bristol bus station--Feral Trade             mezcal Cuish Mezcalería Cuish to Feral Trade 1. felix mezcal negotiations 2. feral sugar bag checks in mexico city airport 3. checked bag arrives newark as 2 bags 4. luggage repacked into one sugar bag newark airport 5. feral bags arrive bristol bus station 6. mezcal cuish arrives ducrow court bristol Shipping Facts FER-1715 import purchase & freight 1 x mezcal Cuish bottle gross per bottle Courier Report FER-1715 DISPATCHED: 22/11/12 DELIVERED: 30/11/12 kate rich Mezcal rolled in clothes, dragged in rolling suitcase by bus to Mexico City via a stopover in Cholula where we drank instead homemade tejacote (a local fruit) infused vodka made by Dorota Prymek a Polish woman living there. Mexico at Minerva's studio the bags are repacked, the mezcal bottle with added clothes protection transferred to the sugar bag to try its luck in obligatory checked luggage. With assistance from Minerva the now 40kg + of bags was hauled pre-dawn on the 29/11 to the metrobus stop. At the airport United ground staff was happy to apply some tiny fragile stickers to the sugarbag that immediately fell off. 5 flight hours later, feral trade was reunited with luggage at Newark Liberty airport in New Jersey where US federal law requires that transit passengers meet and greet bags to haul them through US Customs before immediately rechecking them further down the corridor. While feral trade's sugar bag had mysteriously unpacked itself inflight to the 2 smaller sugar bags inside, contents seemed all present and unscathed. A Customs desk agent took my customs declaration form in his surgically gloved hands but ignored the baggage. 40 kg down the corridor 2 very courteous United ground staff helped restore the cargo to its single sugar bag, freeing up feral trade to scoot into new york city for a few hours shore leave. 10PM that night on boarding the connecting flight to London I was fortunate enough to be seated at the rear of the aircraft, right hand window side where i could see the loading guy chucking suitcases at the baggage conveyor to the hold, sugar bag seemed to land intact. Proven at Heathrow 10AM, where it arrived at baggage retrievals in actually great shape. I shared the lift to the Heathrow Express train with a grouchy elderly US couple complaining to their concierge about damage to their armoured suitcase (1 wheel smashed out) while disembarking their cruise at Southhampton the night before, sea farers being probably rougher handlers than air folk. Heathrow train and bus staff softly handled the baggage transitions onto the Bristol departing bus from Central Bus station, where on arrival i managed to drag all gear down cobbled lanes to Ducrow Court where the mezcal was unpacked safe & sound. freight and handling mezcal Cuish to Feral Trade sponsored by             FERALTRADE products passed by hand. The word 'feral' describes a process that is deliberately wild, as in pigeon, as opposed to nature wild (wolf). Feral Trade freight operates largely outside commercial channels, using the surplus potential of social, cultural and data networks for the distribution of goods. contact kate@feraltrade.org