Wikipedia Article About Pulque on Wikipedia Pulque, or octli, is an alcoholic beverage made from the fermented juice of the maguey, and is a traditional native beverage of Mesoamerica. The maguey plant is not a cactus (as has sometimes been mistakenly suggested) but an agave elsewhere called the "century plant". And has been caught in Mexico and had a prominent place in mythology, religious rituals, and Meso-American industry.