If the bottle says Hogshead
Hogshead Tequila is made by Tusk’ave
Hogshead Single Barrel Añejo is the name of our collections. Tusk’ave is the house that selects each cask, ages it in Los Altos de Jalisco and bottles it on its own.
Two names, one house
The house
Tusk’ave
Who we are. Tusk’ave chooses the casks, follows each one through the years it ages, and decides when it is ready. This site is the house.
The collection
Hogshead
What the label says. A hogshead is an old cooper’s word for a large cask, and we gave it to our single-barrel añejos because the barrel is the whole idea. Collection I is Hogshead Travesía, and the collections after it carry the name too.
Reading the label
Everything on the front of a Hogshead bottle is about one barrel. Here is what each line means.
- Single Barrel
- One cask, bottled on its own. Never blended with another barrel to make it taste like last year's.
- Añejo · Months
- More than two years in oak. The label states how many months this cask rested: 27 or 29 in Collection I, and 27 to 31 in Collection II.
- Barrel No. · Bottle No. of
- Which cask your bottle was drawn from, and where it falls in that cask's run.
- % Alc Vol · Proof
- Each cask is bottled at the strength it earned, so this number changes from barrel to barrel.
- 100% Agave · NOM 1634 · CRT
- Blue agave only, made at registered distillery NOM 1634 in Los Altos de Jalisco and certified by the Tequila Regulatory Council.
Have a bottle? Write to us with its barrel and bottle number and we will tell you about the cask it came from. Contact us →
The collections
Questions people ask
Is Hogshead Tequila a different company from Tusk’ave?
No. It is the same house. Hogshead is the name of our single-barrel añejo collections; Tusk’ave is the house that selects, ages and bottles them.
Where is it made?
In Los Altos de Jalisco, the highlands of the tequila region. It is produced and bottled by our partner distillery, NOM 1634, from estate-grown blue agave.
Where can I buy it?
The casks and bottles available now are listed on the inventory. If you are looking for a store near you, write to us and we will tell you where.
I used to visit hogshead-tequila.com. Where did it go?
That site has closed and its address now brings you here. The private-label, brand-development and production work it described is now part of Tusk’ave, under Special Projects.
Private labels, brand development and production for other brands: Special Projects →