Anyone tried this place?

Philsinthe???

He sells alot of shit on ebay. In fact, a large number of the repro spoons offered bear his mark. Never tried the page, however.

I'm positive it will be crap.

Nice spoons for the price.

I've got one of each coming,
we shall see.
Maybe I'll send samples to LCLF.

Recipe #2 doesn't look too bad.

I wonder if he strains the maceration before bottling... or just pours it in, chunky-style?

I did a quite tiresome Google-translation through a thread over at the Heure-Verte forum in French, where he talked about the MDF a while back...

Apparently he uses badiane-essence to get the louche going, and refers to an old Duplais or Bedel text saying that essences in some cases can be used, to justify it.

However, I don't know if that was only in the lab-samples or also in these.

I too have one of each coming my way next week, so we'll see.

There's a thread about it over at FV.

Looks like there's a few posts about it here too.

You'll have to scroll down the page a little ways.

In a bizzare way, #1 turned out to be better than what #2 was made of. But it used mint or peppermint, and lots of it, and that gave it a rather unpleasant taste. It was, however, indeed very wormwoody (unsurprising, given the bucketloads of wormwood used). #2 is quite a bit more flimsy.

#1 contained bucketloads of absinthe because it was PhiL's way of verifying the t-jone myth, and it was actually something good about it (of course, he ignored the historical evidence suggesting that the ordinaire used lots of wormwood merely because it used crappy A. absinthium and was watered down, mind you).

I suggested that if he were to make a Suisse recipe, he use a Besançon or Nîmes recipe to retain that character, but that's not what he did - he used many recipes (but no Nîmes or Besançon, IIRC) and #2 is based on what some French and Dutch tasters thought about these.

As a first attempt, I think it's OK. I suspect #1 is what I tasted with some of the more objectionable things (like the peppermint) removed.

Compared to decent HG coming from a country that shall remain nameless, and most better commercial products, they're both shit - Absinthe Montmartre is a much better (albeit idiosyncratic) first attempt at making a little experiment grow into a commercial product.

To his credit, PhiL actually obliquely acknowledges it on his site it's an experimental product with lots of variability between the batches.

Lemercier doesn't yet know a lot about distillation of a macerate like this -- the Lemercier Abisinthe is an assemblage of distillates. They also can't get a decent louche without adding gobs of star anise, and the colouration process appears to be hit-and-miss with these batches.

As I expected.

As I expected.

Sounds like #1 and #2 were appropriately named.

Tardo.

Just when I thought you'd actually developed a modicum of maturity, you lapse into your old convenient near-monosyllabic alleged insults.

Big surprise, shitferbrains.

Like I said.

Lemme just flip you the old ass end of the

But I do that only with , ya big lug.

Tone, please. Gentlemen, please watch the tone. The Lounge already has sufficient Epitome.

Hey, they got tone (unlike the epitome).

Well, at least one of 'em does, the other lacks finesse.

But not girth.

And just for the record, girth is very important.

Not that girth.

Cf. Ned's use of italics in this post in FV's Eddie thread ...

Oh, yeah...

Well I happen to have big feet.*












* O.K. Kirk, you win...they're size 10, and I'm a lying sack of pig excrement.

I'm glad that you dug up that post, Gertz. I clued into the italicized message "hidden" in the post at the time but the recent developments have put Ned's jab into proper context. And make it considerably funnier.

While reading this I was reminded of ET's Pepperminty Fresh HG and it brought back wonderful memories of days gone by...

When I was all so new and innocent to this scene.

So Gertz! You found the secret hidden code as well! Woohoo!
Now, if I could only find the truth about absinthe in there somewhere...

I thought absinthe was truth...

Have you been reading Evan Hunter's "Last Summer", Green?

Oops, sorry, that was beer.

The secret hidden code is...











































































Drink more Ovaltine.

I think Jean Shepard probably died with that on his lips, Rimmy.

(in response to Rimmy)

I don't know what the fuck Assy's talkin' 'bout.

Do I amuse you, Mistress?...

Do you think I'm FUNNY???

Good, then may I have my whipping now, PLEASE?

This guy?

You betcha...

I wouldn't have bought a used car from that feller...

That there's a child-fondlin' bowtie, I reckon.

Bigo, Rimmy...

Geoff Smith,the Friggin' Gourmet wore the same bowtie in the 80s, in Seattle, whilst he was molesting the little whitebreads in this part of our fair land!

I knew it.

I bet it even smells like children.

Even worse...

Childrens' asses.

This fuck bothering you, Glassy?

I didn't notice.....

Hee! All righty, then.

Aw, shucks, I was hopin' one of you pulchritudinous wenches would slap me around some...

For FREE?!?!?!!!!!

This is all free will get you: