Inside Look is a Fresno Bee series where we ... Woolf was thinking about the agave plant: The large, fleshy, drought-resistant succulent is used to make tequila and mezcal in Mexico, where the ...

Heading inside the distillery, the smell of sweet agave fills the air. Using a rotating crusher that Turner developed from a 300-pound forklift wheel, the caramelized sugars are extracted from the ...