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It had been determined several years ago that the old Absinthe was nothing 
special.  The currently made Absinthe is for the most part the same recipe 
with the same amount of wormwood.  The hype was over some twit who drank for 
a week straight, then murdered his family.  When they went to his house, 
they found an Absinthe bottle on the table and blamed it for the murderous 
rampage, rather than the several gallons equivelent of other bottles around 
the house and no evidence that the fellow had eaten anything during his 
drinking spree.  I think it had also been determined the fellow was manic as 
well.  Anyway, media being what it still is to this day, fabricated a story 
and hyped it up until Absinthe was illegal for some 110 years.

I drink "Lucid", 50/50, water/Absinthe, none of that pussy 5:1 with a sugar 
cube BS.

I was recently given a bottle of Absente from Europe in exchange for some 
computer work.  It smells good, but it's flavor is weak and it has a bitter 
aftertaste that even when made "correctly" with sugar, can't be covered.

Kurt

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Coslo" <mjc5 at psu.edu>

: Hey, is the Absinthe that you get in the US today, the old recipe or the
: tamed down one? I'd heard a few years ago that the old fashioned one with
: (wormwood?) in it was being made again.
: With a complete absinthe of malice.