Post #568058 by TorchGuy on Wed, Dec 8, 2010 7:06 AM

Mr. Moto, have you ever found or heard of any good use for Le Tourment Verte? I first had this stuff, as I think I noted, at a friend's house - he bought and enjoyed Lucid in Washington, moved to California and, unable to find the storied BevMo, hit a local liquor dump, and it was all they had. I refused to finish my glass, which wouldn't louche, and he called it "barely tolerable" and later claimed he was able to get a weak louche using ginger ale, though I haven't seen this in action.

I have a mini of it, and it smells like aftershave - tastes like it smells, too. I took it to Murray at the Zig Zag in Seattle, who stocks about 8 absinthes, and he said "Nope, can't do anything with it. We were sent a bottle. Tried it, didn't like it, sent it back." Usually, I consider Murray's advice final, or nearly so, but have you ever seen any remotely good use for this heavily-marketed, Scope-blue, anise-light stuff? I guess this shows that not all bad absinthe is Czech...