Too Tight To Track?

Or:  Absinthe Makes The Heart Grow... Something.

Last weekend we made the trek down to newly named Joint Base Lewis-McChord--operational cost savings through consolidation of common services and activities, good!  Name, bad--and, after picking up the Kodak Playsport waterproof "share-n-save" camcorder (Kona here we come!  Snorkling, woo-hoo!) we wandered into the Class VI*, and Mrs. Drang decided she needed the pretty bottle...

Well, absinthe is no longer banned in the USA, or in other nations.  So we picked up the bottle out of curiosity.  This evening I decided to try it, using as close to the traditional method as I could get; since we have no actual absinthe glasses, I just poured a shot of the Green Fairy into a highball glass, and held a perforated spoon with a sugar cube on  it over the glass, while dribbling about three ounces of ice water from a sports bottle on to it.

While I have never been a great fan of licorice, the anise taste of the absinthe is combined with a floral taste that is, well, pretty darned good!

Maybe we'll have to pick some glasses, a spoon or two, maybe a fountain...

Absinthe Buyers Guide.

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*The Military classes of supply include Class I, subsistence (food & drink), V, ammunition, and VI, "Personal Comfort"; ergo, the PX's liquor store is the Class VI.