It has been a couple years since I had time or money to devote to looking for decent absinthe to keep on hand, so all that is left is shit. I prefer le bleue or others with a less anisey taste. What do you guys make sure to keep around lately?

An off putting attitude.

There is no decent commercial absinthe

In the US you mean.

Plenty here.

Name two.

There is nothing but crap sold commercially and you all are getting suckered outta your $$ with every purchase!



Wow. I think Dr. O just ...

The Le P'tite is one of the better (few decent) COs and it is a la Blue.

Mystique
PF1901
Blanchette
Segarra 45
Clandestine
Jade VS
Jade Edouard
Jade NO
Kallnacher Red
Eichelberger
Eichelberger 60°
Eichelberger Blanche
1797
CCC
Bdf
VdF
Blanche Heure Verte
Valdetra Verte
Libertine 68
Kallnacher
Montmartre
Duplais
Duplais Blanche
Duplais Balance
Du Vallon
Helfrich
La P'tite
La Philosophe
La 55
Capricieuse
Absintissimo Verte
Absintissimo Blanche
Brevans
Twin Tec
La Fée XS Française
La Fée XS Suisse
...

To name a few, I forgot some for sure.
All decent afaik, even the FG is decent.

What are these? Never heard of them.

Verte and Blanche from a little Swiss producer.

Discussed here

Fuck, I am gettin' senile, I was partakin' in that discussion. Thanx, Socky.

Yeah, thanks Sox.
I like when Tits tells the truth.

I always tell the truth, iffen if it is bitter™.

Bitter truth is good.

Mystique - never heard of it
PF1901 - now that's a joke putting this on the list
Blanchette - prolly Linus' fav
Segarra 45 - ansie flavoured brandy
Clandestine - just barely above mediocre
Jade VS - HAHA!!! yeah well worth every penny
Jade Edouard - sewage
Jade NO - NO is correct!
Kallnacher Red - you gotta be xitting me? BTW - Peter Shaft deliberately ripped off my colouring technique on this one and even bragged about it..scumbag piece of xit...
Eichelberger - mediocre at best
Eichelberger 60° - mediocre at wurst
Eichelberger Blanche - liver wurst
1797 - a Czeckerlanderland clone at best
CCC - core crew clubhouse
Bdf - crap
VdF - crap
Blanche Heure Verte - dunno
Valdetra Verte - dunno
Libertine 68 - xit!
Kallnacher - what a waste of crappy base alcohol
Montmartre - decent
Duplais - crap
Duplais Blanche - white crap
Duplais Balance - unbalanced crap
Du Vallon - haven't tried tit
Helfrich - almost good in the sack, I hear...
La P'tite - dunno 'boot dat
La Philosophe - ? ? ?
La 55 - The Mayor's real age
Capricieuse - Carpicidon't!
Absintissimo Verte - never tried it
Absintissimo Blanche - prolly never will
Brevans - Not Breve 'nuff to try it
Twin Tec - Twin Blech
La Fée XS Française - XS'essively crappy
La Fée XS Suisse - does the XS stand for Xitty 'Sinthe?

Funny xit.

>Kallnacher Red - you gotta be xitting me? BTW - Peter Shaft deliberately ripped off my colouring technique on this one and even bragged about it..scumbag piece of xit...

um, no...but whatever keeps you going...nice to see you didn't retire!

So Montmarte got the only
positive on Jack's list?
I've actually always liked
the Montmarte but never
got around to buying some.
Guess I gotta buy a bottle
now.

And the Core Crew Clubhouse
sounds good too.

I love Montmartre,
you've prolly had it over my place.

I didn't like it.

Crazy xit, absinthe.

Or-
Crazy xit, me.

That was a good'un once but now 'tis average at best.

As compared twat?

That Montmartyr is insipid, watery
and has some kind of bullxit spicy taste (like cinnamon)\that doesn't belong.
I've never had a commercial absinthe that passed as absinthe,
except maybe some of the pre ban
but it was commercial too.
Oh and, I thought we settled the old:
"you may be able to make great absinthe in your little 10 liter still but
scaling up to (x) liters is a whole different story"
bullxit.
What? You expect me to wade in there? Sure, OK
I've got nothing to lose so. .. .
I thought we settled that a year or two ago?

The best of the "Jades", onacuz it isn't one of the "Jades".

Kirk, if you can't say anything nice, don't give me something commercial. You can still tell me what is at the top o' the list. Since pre ban commercial was commercial does that mean it was xit? I couldn't tell what you meant.

No, just as prohibition destroyed the American brewing tradition and left us with Buttwiper and Coors, the absinthe ban left us with Ned Brew and Hiram. There are a few people out there trying to do better, butt it’s gonna be a long wait, just like with micro-brews. A lawyer finally bedded Ted and brought us Lucid. This might be a first step, butt it is a truly bad absinthe. Personally, I’m not even convinced that it really is absinthe. Someone, on the other forum(The one that is currently hosting the periodic Ted circle jerk. I guess he didn’t my analogy that the birth of Lucid was the equivalent of him giving a wino a blowjob for a quarter. Or, maybe it was the part about him having to swallow.), pointed out that Luxit is about a third of the price of Jade. This is true, butt, as hard as it might be for some to believe, it’s a lot worse than Jade. A bottle of Bud is a lot cheaper than a good beer. Not that I would compare Jade to a good beer, the good beer would win. Jade was the first not-that bad absinthe, it just couldn’t live up to the hype Ted surrounded it with. Not to mention all of the outright lies from Ted that surrounded its release. I’d have to say Helfrich makes the only really good absinthe the average person can buy today. The only problem is you have to buy it from that pretentious German douche-bag.

I can see why Jack is bored with all of this.

That's the one I like the less from that list, funny that's the only one Jack lists as 'decent', says a lot.

Cros', maybe butt that's not a good reason enough to loathe anything Co.

Jack's always been
bored w/this, but
here he found some
like minded individuals.

Ok, Cros, so is their clear stuff tasty, or should I go for that damned green stuff? I think I had a traumatic experience I don't recall associated with a low quality verte, which is why I avoid them now.

"Tell me why you're doing what you do
Is it someone else now, or is it you?
You tell me you aren't in it for the wealth
But you're just there for the
profit, yeah and nothing else"

If I understand Cros correctly.

PTFA!!! I didn't say I liked it, I said it was 'decent.' Tuivel is my hero. Why? Cuz he made sumfin' that he thought he'd like and didn't give a foo 'bout what anyone else thought.... there's this herbal tea called "Licorice Spice" that tastes just like the Montmartre...cinnamon, licorice, star anus, orange peel...

And Peter Shaft, you're a liar and you know it...scumbag piece of xit...

I thought MontyMarty
tasted too much like
the schnapps they
usually make.

thanks rupaul! you're the best!

You ever hear
Rupaul's duet
w/Elton John?

does it repeat the same xit over and over, fade out until you think it's over and then come back and repeat the same xit over and over again?

Rootbeersinthe! is da boom shits!

At least he's consistent.

I like 'em both.

Had it at your place. Had it at a 'fest.
I thought it was pretty good. I guess
I just liked the differentness of it.

I'd bet on the:

Crazy xit, you.

I say get the Helfrich Blanche.

Hmmm.

I just got pkg.
from Delftrich
that I've not had
time to open.

The post office I
had to go pick it
up @ looked just
like the processing
area of a federal
prison. Complete
w/a bank of 2 way
mirrors bumped out
of the wall near the
ceiling.

The post office
in Allentown was
built in 1933.
Except for the lighting
and the obvious
additions from the
70s, a cool place.
Part of my walking
tour of Atown.

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Never send an absinthe to do a Midol's job.

They now have medication to address that.

It's been tested
on rabbits.

The rabbit died.