Absente - Absinthe Refined

As I sit here today, hungover and taking it easy, I reflect on the green-ness of the night. There was a break in the rain long enough for us to party last night. I had gone to the liquor store to purchase a bottle of fine bourbon and saw Absente on the shelf and stood there for awhile deciding if i wanted to buy something that much more expensive. As I stood there musing, a little green fairy, translucent and slightly diminished, whispered in my ear the words I needed to hear. I made the purchase and went home. The box was interesting in its own right, with a pretty green fairy at the top and an absinthe spoon embedded in the box. This isn't 'true' absinthe, its modern, legal absinth with a fraction of the normal thujone content.

I enjoyed the preparation ritual, we carefully measured out 2 shots to each glass and used just enough water to melt the sugar cube.

The end result is a VERY tasty drink. I was impressed, the flavor came on strong and was just sweet enough to take the bitter off, the afters were long lasting and quite enjoyable. I got fairly hot after my first one, I had to take my jacket off and spent the rest of the night in a tshirt. The party lasted into the night, and we all had fun. Well worth the money we put into it, I will certainly buy this one again. It's definately not a nightly thing, but when I do have a night out, I'll certainly be considering bringing the green fairy with me, even in her diminished form she certainly brings out the party.

If you are interested in absinthe, google should do you fine, I found eAbsinthe.com immediately and surfed on over to an Edgar Degas painting L'absinthe which is now my wallpaper.

odd bug

this odd bug was on a painting in the bathroom. neat looking thing. I wonder what it is? 

Unicum

Unicum is a Hungarian digestive liqueur, made by Zwack.

I bought a mini-bottle when I was in San Fransisco recently, and had occasion to drink a few weeks ago. Yea, yea, I'm just getting around to posting about it. STFU. Anyway, it was an enjoyable experience.
I split it into ~1/4 shot portions. I offered these to several people in my house, all who smelled it, said "yuck", tasted it, said "yuck" again and put it down. I ended up drinking all of it myself. It was good, but if you ask me how it tastes, I'd say its kind of like shooting some jagermeister while chewing on a cinnamon stick and kissing a used ashtray full of jet fuel. My tasters agree, except for the part where they don't enjoy it. Damn, what's that say about me?