Lou Bank has sold more copies of a single comic book than anyone else in America. He helped bring Pokemon to the masses, Star Wars to the cereal aisle, and Morimoto to the beer geeks ... launched the first soundtrack to a novel and the second major ebook deal ... participated in the birth of a lobbying group that has eliminated the incest-exception laws in seven states and convinced the feds to overhaul and fund their Internet Crimes Against Children program. In 2017, Lou founded SACRED, an organization that helps improve quality of life in the rural Mexican communities where heritage agave spirits are made. Since then, he's attracted enough financial support from hospitality workers, agave enthusiasts, restaurateurs, and spirits brands to distribute over 70,000 agave seedlings to families outside the Tequila and Mezcal D.O.s, support the build-out of five water-security systems (rain-harvest systems and wells), underwrite the construction of five greenhouses and nurseries, and make possible the reconstruction of a collapsing family distillery and the construction of a library in rural Jalisco. Lou is also the host of Agave Road Trip, a critically acclaimed, award-winning podcast the helps gringx bartenders better understand agave, agave spirits, and rural Mexico.
