All Aboard the Pineapple Express, It’s Tepache Time

There’s a strain of evangelism that infects people when they get hooked on a new streaming show, or they learn about a certain indie band, or they buy an air fryer. You know how it goes: “Did you hear me? You have to try this!”

That’s how people get when they discover tepache.

“Why isn’t everyone making this?! It’s pretty foolproof,” says Jazzton Rodriguez, an Oklahoma-based bartender and cofounder of Very Good Drinks, a cocktail test kitchen and bar consultancy company.