The good ole' days are always gooder than the nowadays.

I guess that depends on who you are and how you view your future. You couldn't fucking pay me to go back more than five minutes. Well, if you've got Oxy's money, you might be able to buy a year. Pretty much any thing before that, no.

You could pay me to be Cros.

But only for a few mintutes.
And only for more than what I'd make in ten years.

Lucid Tip of the Day:

Putting your lucid in a half gallon glass jug and shaking it a few times a day(aerating it) seems to have softened it out a little. Remember a similer trick was needed for Un Emile 68, coincidence maybe?

Trick 2:

water it 2-1. If still not satsified, save it for visitors.

Good times?

I don't 'member them
as such-
Head and I were both
pretty much reviled back
then, and both would quit
FV off and on. My marriage
was becoming even more
a rent partner relationship.
I was drinking ungodly
amounts all by my lonesome.
FV was uptight and oh, so
very circumspect.
Weren't really no LFs.
HG knowledge was kept under
tight wraps and the sharing
of such was almost nonexistent.
What was available, absinthe
wise was risalbe, and either
cheap and crappy (pre 9/11
shipping from SC), or expensive
and a crap shoot. Or, expensive
and crappy.

So-
Um, no...

Dinky and I could
prolly swap places.

Cros and I, when
together, seem
inhabit the same
place where a soul
should be.

Dinky+Cros are like
those magnetic Scotty
dogs you could buy
outtah vending
machines-
turn 'em face to face
and they'd spin away
from each other, turn
'em front to back and
they'd sniff each the
other's ass.

I tried to get inside
Wogger.

I didn't mean to infer that those days were all about glory.
There were some awfully dark times ('04)
but also some good moments we all managed to share.

Umm, I never even considered trying to get inside wogger. That would be like incest.
I like drinking with her though.
I'd fly 3000 miles just to get a buzz on with A.B.

And I thought my bar was creepy.

I'm impressed a woman exists that Dinky respects.

I wouldn't go that far.

Dinks,
I was referring to
der Cros' statement
about FV circa 01-02
or so.

Nympin'+Not Pimpin',
Dinks respects
every woman
until she says-
"Yes".

That's going to make it quite low on G&C's scale, though.

Onacuz he drinks much better stuff, always.

Don't rub it in.

You and I don't have it all that bad.

But it's too transparent, so by Oxy's score card it's not that good, eh?

Overnight shipping means three+ days, so I dunno. I'll be gone for the better part of this week, so I'll be the last to know.
On a positive note, I should be able to kill a work obligation and a passion for hot, dry, dead, old places in one shot.

Visiting Dr. O's wit?

Yeah, three plus days. I haven't got mine yet either and I'm only in the next state over. Sheesh. I'll hold my breath today until it gets here.

Patience, it ain't worth holding your breath for.

Watch it. You're not so grate yourself, you know.

IMHO you can't buy much better than the Jades (if you leave out the N.O.).
If so, please drop me a link.

Depends on what you mean by "good".

To give but one example, HGers that like their products to be ultra clean might dislike the choices Ted has made because they see some choices as defects - more than mere mortals would.

In that sense, a lot of products can be "better" than Jade - it's not a one-dimensional linear scale.

Are you saying a lot of current products are "better" than Jade, or that there exists a potential for products to be "better" than Jade?

I agree that a "better" product is possible, and that "better" is a widely subjective term, but I'm refering to "better" as an average. I believe that the Jades are, for the most part, the best of both worlds for the average to above average absinthe consumer.

Let's not include outliers such as crotchety HG'ers. Everyone knows you can never make them happy...

I made a similar argument myself on another forum, but I would hesitate to word it this way. Even this is a reductionism.

I haven't had anything Jade in so long I don't actually even remember how it tastes.

Burnt™

Of the COs, I like the Fou verte, Eichelberger and Brut alambic as well if not more than the jades and some would say the Duplais is up there as well. The L' Artisanale was much better to my tastes.

I agree on the L'artisinale... but it's NLA

Drat it!

Ditto.
I liked the Brut a lot as well.
Out of stock until Sept, though.

FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


It just arrived, finally, and I think it's o.k.

Seriously though, I just had a Jade N.O. and an Eich verte and after having those two and making the Lucid the exact same way, it's like I am having another one of the two of those combined. The aroma, louche, taste, it's all there. Wow, I'm impressed. It is truly like a real absinthe from across the pond legal right here in the good ol' US of A. This is a big thing for the absintheurs of America. Excellent! Bravo! Now what's next? Dinky asked who was getting in on the American made stuff. I'll put in on that.

It is ok.
better than ok
Just not grate.

4 years ago wolfgang would have made a killing with this stuff.
Now...

We're spoiled.

I didn't say it was a "Felix" or anything. To me it tastes just like the N.O. or the Eich verte I just had. They are pretty good commercial products. I'm not trying to compare them to the HG's or even to the best commercials out there, which I don't think I've even tried yet. I haven't had any of the LaBleu's or the L'Artisanal or any of the newer stuff yet. The newest stuff I've had commercially is the Eich. So I think it is on par with the N.O. or the Eich. That's all. And that's pretty good.

Good to hear.

Funny you should mention that.
I did think Lucid tastes like less flavorful N.O.

Is that what Teddy's doing with all the N.O. nobody wants? Adding some beet alcohol and reselling it un Lucid.

Ever notice that Lucid spelled backwards is Dicul?
..and that Dicul was a Celtic Monk, from the Late 7th cent. Born in Ireland, he preached Christ in England in Norfolk and in Sussex. *

...and that Dickleburgh in Norfolk may be named after him.

...and there's a LF in Norfolk.

Makes you think.

* (http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/saintsd.htm)

Um, no butt you sound like a friend of mine who does that kind of thing as a joke. He's a cool guy and a real BSer.

Well, Dinky's a real BS'er anyway.

Only if you have vageene.

What about a copy of the novel...

A lot of the new LBs are better. Most of the stuff Peter has brought to market post Jade, some with Oxy's help, are MUCH better.

Um, no.

Sorry.

Glad it's legal and all that good stuff, but Segarra and Serpis 65 are better.

And there is nothing "Lucid" about it. I feel nothing but booze, bad booze. Neat this crap has the aroma of dried vomit in the Las Vegas sun. And yeah, it tastes like fucked up Jade NO.

Am I happy I can buy this in the USA? Only if it leads to a better product in the future. I can say fo' sure, just like the Jade NO, I'll never buy another bottle of this shit.

So you're saying you don't like it?

I wonder if it has to be this thin to get it to pass the t-jones test?

Thin wouldn't be so bad, if it wasn't cheap and dirty too. Don't let that comment get you too wet.

Thin, cheap, dirty, vomit.

You're almost there, just
add piss.