24/08/2026
Bienvenidos equipo de Casa Del Elfo
🚐🌽🥃 ELFO IS CLOSED TODAY — BUT WE’RE DOING OUR HOMEWORK! 🥃🌽🚐
Casa Del Elfo is closed today, Monday, August 24, for staff training, but this particular training day comes with a road trip. 😎
Team Elfo is heading to San Agustín Etla, Oaxaca, to visit Maíz Nation and the SolCraft Distillery to learn firsthand about the production of Oaxacan wh***ey.
And Maíz Nation is doing something pretty special.
Founded by distiller Jonathan Barbieri, Maíz Nation puts Oaxaca’s incredible diversity of native corn at the center of wh***ey production. Their wh***ey incorporates traditional Oaxacan corn varieties, rainwater, small-batch fermentation and distillation in solar-powered copper stills. Their approach connects wh***ey-making with Oaxaca’s agricultural traditions, native corn and the communities that grow it. 🌽☀️🥃
For us, today is about learning, tasting, asking lots of questions…and probably taking lots of notes. 📝🥃
We’re hoping the experience inspires some new ideas for Elfo — perhaps Oaxacan wh***ey tastings, wh***ey flights, new cocktails and other experiences that let us introduce our guests to another fascinating side of Oaxaca’s drinking culture.
But training isn’t only about what’s in the glass.
It’s also an opportunity for Team Elfo to spend a little time together away from the café, learn something new, have some fun and do a bit of team building along the way. ❤️🧝
We’ll be back bright and early tomorrow, Tuesday, hopefully with a little more knowledge, a lot of new ideas and plenty of fresh energy.
See you tomorrow at Elfo!