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« Reply #200 on: April 11, 2008, 11:15:35 pm » |
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Yeah, but most poets writers and painters were drunks, harlots and beggars. Mind you, Absinthe was probably a hell of a lot cheaper back then.
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« Reply #201 on: April 12, 2008, 11:59:28 am » |
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I love the way in which so many people revere what is effectively the drink of drunks, harlots and beggars.
Gin? Oh, absinthe... I see. It has an allure and mystique that seems to put people in touch with a past they find somehow romantic. I daresay that this what this forum is about, is it not? A celebration of a distant past, recalled through rose lensed brass goggles. |
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« Reply #202 on: April 12, 2008, 10:33:12 pm » |
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« Reply #203 on: April 13, 2008, 12:47:24 pm » |
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A second tasting of Hill's done while cleaning muskets yesterday (and I might add at this point that brass, while lovely, can take forever to clean black powder fouling from), and in the style of the times with spoon, sugar cube, et cetera, lead me to the same conclusion. Vile. I was tempted to pour it down the drain. As I sat and polished brass, the Hill's sat too. I noticed the taste seemed to improve over time. I'd conduct another experiment, but there's rum to drink instead.
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« Reply #204 on: April 13, 2008, 02:18:26 pm » |
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Perhaps the Hills will work good for polishing the brass.
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« Reply #205 on: April 13, 2008, 04:54:30 pm » |
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Dear Atterton,
Drat, you beat me to that suggestion.
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« Reply #206 on: April 13, 2008, 10:18:18 pm » |
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Mix it with Red Bull, if you get a particularly bad batch of absinthe. It increases the palateability immensely.
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« Reply #207 on: April 14, 2008, 05:23:33 am » |
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Mix it with Red Bull, if you get a particularly bad batch of absinthe. It increases the palateability immensely.
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Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam.
(Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. But deserve a nice glass of absinthe. I have some Montemarte in the cabinet, if you wish.)
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« Reply #208 on: April 14, 2008, 09:32:09 am » |
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But Red Bull is so right!! Of course the side effect of bugjuice is it keeps you awake for hours...
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« Reply #209 on: June 03, 2008, 04:25:04 pm » |
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« Reply #210 on: June 03, 2008, 09:33:23 pm » |
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I've had an absinthe lollypop - but I love gummis. Now if only Haribo made and stocked those so I could find them here.
And yikes! 85% absinthe - no water to temper it? That'll be one rough little bear.
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« Reply #211 on: June 04, 2008, 06:10:42 pm » |
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To answer your question, ordering said gummi bears would be next! |
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« Reply #212 on: June 05, 2008, 05:14:19 am » |
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why is absinthe called "the green fairy" ? wikipedia says nothing about it, and i dont think anyone here has mentioned..... its such a strange nickname  |
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« Reply #213 on: June 05, 2008, 02:45:01 pm » |
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Among the reasons is that when absinthe is properly prepared (a slow water drip) - sometimes the cloudy trails of the louche can form wing shapes in the absinthe.
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« Reply #214 on: June 05, 2008, 05:38:27 pm » |
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And according to Oxygenee's history: Legend has it, that the inventor of the drink was Dr. Pierre Ordinaire, who in 1792, shortly after the French revolution, travelled around the Val de Travers on his faithfull horse Rocket, and produced the first commercial absinthe, initially as an all-purpose remedy or cure-all. It was nicknamed "La Fée Verte" - "The Green Fairy" - and this name stuck throughout absinthe's heyday. |
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« Reply #215 on: June 05, 2008, 10:54:17 pm » |
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Wow... this time last year I wouldn't have thought that the pricey part in an absinthe party would be the glasses and spoons... Does anyone know where they can be picked up en masse on the cheap? I reckon I'll need about eight glasses and at least three spoons, but something about spending $15-20 per glass and $8-13 per spoon strikes me as a bit unnecessarily expensive.
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« Reply #216 on: June 05, 2008, 11:19:46 pm » |
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Authentic ones are expensive. Even replicas.
But you can get away with using a vintage parfait set (if you can find one). I saw one at our closest thrift shop going for about 15 dollars for a set of 8.
Spoons are another matter, but you can get them cheaper if you don't mind the stamped metal variety.
Also - Unless you need a tonne of them. They're still cheaper than the average cost of a couple good bottles of green stuff.
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« Reply #218 on: June 06, 2008, 01:56:29 am » |
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« Reply #219 on: June 06, 2008, 02:48:28 am » |
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« Reply #220 on: June 06, 2008, 06:48:25 am » |
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I do fear that lack of the green stuff (or lack of the brown, purple or red stuff as the case may be in England), leads to lack of the Green stuff.
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« Reply #222 on: June 06, 2008, 07:14:19 am » |
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I personally have a La Fee absinthe glass, liberated from my local arthouse cinema that serves absinthe. Ahh, Sweeny Todd and absinthe... heaven...
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« Reply #223 on: June 06, 2008, 07:26:28 am » |
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Aye, I have a La Fee glass from when I ordered one of their sample sets last year as well, but I worry about addiction running in my family (both my parents are smokers and I have a few aunts and uncles on both sides that have had problems with alcohol), so I'm trying to steer clear of drinking alone (no matter HOW tasty rum & coke is!). The problem is that one glass does not a party make...  |
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« Reply #224 on: June 06, 2008, 07:29:15 am » |
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Aye, I have a La Fee glass from when I ordered one of their sample sets last year as well, but I worry about addiction running in my family (both my parents are smokers and I have a few aunts and uncles on both sides that have had problems with alcohol), so I'm trying to steer clear of drinking alone (no matter HOW tasty rum & coke is!). The problem is that one glass does not a party make... Trust me, if you have the will power addictions do not pass over, in fact they probably are avoided by the next generation because of the fact their parents do. My parents are alcoholics, but i'm not *hic*. |
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