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[Bob Nielsen]

Oh, you are making me thirsty,

I have a bottle of Pernod here which is 40%.  Perhaps it has changed over the years.  Maybe I should only cut it at 4:1 to compensate (actually I never measure, just pour),

Several years ago I had some Pernod Ricard stock.  I only had it for a few months until they were bought out but I made ~50% profit.

73, Bob N7XY
SOC #77

On Oct 3, 2011, at 3:25 PM, john bell wrote:

> Absinthe was a problem in France so the French Government outlawed it. A 
> certain Mr Pernod eventually went to the government and suggested that 
> if he made a weaker solution and called it something else perhaps they 
> could legalise his new drink. They agreed and Pernod at 45% was born.
> In the UK Absinthe was never a problem so they never declared it 
> illegal, and it is still legal now. The fact is nobody drinks it.
> The popular aniseed drinks in France are Ricard, 51, and other cheaper 
> supermarket ones (which I'm drinking at this moment). 40% and 45% proof 
> are available here, both disgusting without water added at 5:1 or 
> thereabouts.
> 
> Slurp slurp
> 
> 73/51 John
> 
> On 04/10/2011 00:00, KD7JYK DM09 wrote:
>> "I am told the real stuff ( very hard to obtain) still has Wormwood in
>> it but if you like that sot of thing Try Pastis,Ouzo,or some such
>> aniseed flavoured spirit.I am told the original was somewhat mind
>> bending I a, sure that I only have had a pale imitation"
>> 
>> Actually, they all have wormwood in them, some more than others.  Mind
>> bending?  No, never was, other than the alcohol, the wormwood was a bad
>> rumor.  About 120 years ago or so, some twit went on a bender, drank
>> everything in sight and went on a murderous rampage.  Investigators
>> discovered the clown had drunk everything he could find, including Absinthe.
>> Several days, maybe even weeks after the fact, a newspaper ran an article
>> explaining that the Absinthe was the cause.  It could have just as well be
>> red wine, white wine, whiskey, or nothing at all that caused the guy to go
>> overboard, but the newspaper, having little information and not being part
>> of the investigation, focused on the Absinthe.  The story grew to the point
>> that until 1990 Absinthe was illegal in every country except Czechoslovakia.
>> Why not there?  Because they had an entirely different liquor by that name.
>> Years ago, several bottles of "original" Absinthe was obtained by several
>> liquor producers and analyzed.  Not surprisingly the amount of wormwood
>> varied from little to none at all.
>> 
>> There IS something FAR more deadly in Absinthe, DHMO:
>> 
>> http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/dhmo.htm
>> 
>> Kurt
>> 
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