The name of this beer, Nochtli, is the word in Nahuatl for prickly pear. It is the fruit of Nopal, a cactus that Mexico has adopted as a national symbol. The legend says that the god of the sun, Huitzilopochtli, ordered the Aztecs to settle and build their empire wherever they found an eagle poised on a nopal devouring a rattlesnake. Thus it was that on a little island in the middle of the ancient lake that now sits beneath Mexico City where the ancient Great Tenochtitlan was founded.

Ingredients: water, barley malt, prickly pear, lemon balm, hops, yeast.