This week's video demystifies and deep dives into a delicious drink that is highly misunderstood and frequently overlooked. Also, I tell the story of a remarkable scientist whose drive and passion has done more to resurrect this industry than anyone else I can think of in recent memory. 🍾
Thank you so much to @InclusiveLittleUnicorn and @dr34d for making this whole experiment and video happen with me. 😍💚💜💖
@deviantollam Will check this out. I'm an occasional absinthe drinker. Hopefully, The Green Fairy will approve!
Video watched. Only one quibble: you undersold Ted Breaux. He developed #Lucid specifically to get #Absinthe back onto the US market.
I heard about Lucid and got some in the late 2000s. Good stuff! That and #Pernod are the only absinthe I can get in my part of eastern Washington state. Both are about the same quality and price.
Getting something from Jade Liqueurs is on my want list.
Not surprised on your tasting of Mephisto. It was one I was told to avoid.
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Here are a couple of interviews of Ted Breaux by Adrienne LaVey. (She's original from Selah, WA, and lives someplace in northwest Washington state.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy3iYaoGNSg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcOIoEkW_RY
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@Jason844 oh I will definitely check that out and watch!
@deviantollam Years ago, in the 90s, before the czech stuff was available in the US, I wanted to try the real thing so bad I learned the entire process of making it from scratch.
The funniest result of that, I think, was realizing green NyQuil is Absinthe flavoured, which probably explains the color.
@ra6bit wow i didn't know that this was the inspiration for their green flavor, neat!
@deviantollam Oh, I'm not saying it is or I know it to be, I'm just saying, it's bright green and tastes the same.. :)
@ra6bit ah right on
@ra6bit @deviantollam wait, what?
@deviantollam oh boy, absinthe video! Someone had an early bedtime?
Cuz that's what happens when I drink absinthe
@InclusiveLittleUnicorn @dr34d
I haven't had a chance to watch your video yet. But I adore absinthe, and learned quite a bit of history from just nerding out about it. A local bar in Louisiana had a tiny back bar where they served a dozen different absinthes, and the bartender and I would swap off answering people's questions.
TA Breaux is also from Louisiana. And one of my biggest missed opportunities was I was out of town one weekend and didn't go to that bar… and that's the weekend he stopped in. It was apparently an amazing night, and he signed a few bottles (especially the one for the company he worked for at the time).
The next weekend, every employee and half the regulars came up to me to talk about how much I missed.
@cliffb_infosec @InclusiveLittleUnicorn @dr34d i'm so curious what bar it was... do you recall?
@deviantollam @InclusiveLittleUnicorn @dr34d
Date tip: absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.
@deviantollam thank you for asap calling out the electric green absinthes as well as the flaming thing… and seeing you do the spoon and icewater and sugar cube 👌
such a good vid.
@colinstu awe, so glad you appreciated that 😁
@deviantollam I cringe so hard when I hear folks say they hate absinthe or it made them vomit and come to find out they’re chugging the green stuff directly… uh NO.. and then usually show them the right way (with the right stuff) after..