I went to Mexico for four days, and it was a crash course in tequila if there ever was one.

I learned the lay of the tequila land, riding through the most difficult to reach corners of the agave fields only accessible by mule or ATV. I hung out with locals, took a cooking class in authentic Mexican cuisine, toured the Altos tequila distillery and obviously drank a lot of local spirit. I learned a lot about the liquor most of us associate with an especially wild night out. Here are five of the most surprising things I discovered:

Only tourists and hipsters order anything else in Mexico

As one local put it, “If you’re at a bar in Mexico and order something besides tequila, you’re either clearly not from here or are doing it to be different for attention.”