LeRoy Report post Posted May 20, 2007 http://www.ratebeer.com/Beer/gluek-stite-light-lager/31314/ Holy shit. I figured you would get a laff outta that! Hopefully you will never be unfortunate enough to taste any of it! When I first moved here I was told this was the xit. Then I tasted it! Enough said. Member to Advanced Member transition! 499...500...501... Yeah! Alright, I know it is just a numbers game, but it still calls for a Duplais Blanche! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dakini_painter Report post Posted May 20, 2007 So why do I see reviewers from the Ukraine and Denmark in the reviews (for gluek). Don't tell me America exports this stuff? And I'm astounded at the number of beers this company makes. And how low their ratings are. How does a company like this stay in business? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Absomphe Report post Posted May 20, 2007 I guss now that would b Hills, Th Snitty Absinth™. You were so right, Grey. Amended, as suggested. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Proteus Report post Posted May 20, 2007 Ike 68, then Duplais 'Balance', then maybe a Duplais. I really need to find an English site that sells the other Ike labels. Yesterday, I tried Montmarte for the first time. I've read some good reviews about the Montmarte. Apparently my taste isn't yet refined enough to appreciate this one. It was easily the least enjoyable of the eight absinthes I've tried thus far. Please tell me it (or I) will get better with age... John Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Martin Lake Report post Posted May 20, 2007 Hard to say. I think Montmarte does get better with age, but not liking it may not be a matter of your palate not being refined enough yet. A lot of people don't like it on their first try or ever. It's a bit of a weird flavor for an absinthe. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
peridot Report post Posted May 20, 2007 I think it's weird tasting. I love cinnamon but I feel like it's overbearing in the Montmartre. I'm not too much of a fan of it, but it's my girlfriend's favourite. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pan Buh Report post Posted May 20, 2007 Tonight it's been big, thirsty glassfuls of Blackwood's gin and tonics. Followed by a couple of Urquells. Last night a Balance in a plastic cup while sitting next to our tent in Germany. It was a very good weekend. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Brooks Report post Posted May 20, 2007 Yesterday, I tried Montmarte for the first time. It was easily the least enjoyable of the eight absinthes I've tried thus far.Proteus, there are few fence-straddlers on this one. People like Montmartre, or they don't. It took me a year-and-a-half to polish off my one bottle. I found the last glass as strange as the first. (Post script: Just remembered that by the end I was mixing it 1:1 with Kübler. Kübler's simple flavor profile took the edge off the cinnamon.) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
OMG_Bill Report post Posted May 21, 2007 Slerpis. Now my face is all sticky. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Joe Legate Report post Posted May 21, 2007 Ah, I hate that. If I fall on the floor, my Cocker Spaniel tries to wash my face. Yesterday, I tried Montmarte for the first time. I've read some good reviews about the Montmarte. Apparently my taste isn't yet refined enough to appreciate this one. Maybe it's not your palate, John. Maybe you just don't like it. Last night a Balance in a plastic cup while sitting next to our tent in Germany. It was a very good weekend. Last night I gave my glass to a friend and drank my absinthe out of a plastic cup, too. It was also a very good weekend here. Proteus, there are few fence-straddlers on this one. People like Montmartre, or they don't. Don't. But to each his own and I have several excellent absinthes that serve me very well. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Le Gimp Report post Posted May 21, 2007 Sierra Nevada Summer Pils while working in the garden this afternoon. I had a Manhattan while making dinner and a glass of NO after dinner. I was going to make a lavender crème brulée tonight but I can't find my lavender flowers. I do have a lavender plant growing in the garden so I might wait till I get flowers from it. Right now I'm drinking ice water. I'll hit the beer soon. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Stomp Brockmore Report post Posted May 21, 2007 Some Duplais Verte after watching Inland Empire. Wow! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
elfnmagik Report post Posted May 21, 2007 P33 at the B&B in Terminus this weekend Oh, and beers Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Absomphe Report post Posted May 21, 2007 Nice green! Is that a slight sediment haze, or just the photo? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
elfnmagik Report post Posted May 21, 2007 Good question. It's not sediment, but it is what I described in my post a couple of days ago as dense green. It has no clarity like say the Balance. "Crystal" is not a word to describe its appearance. I picked up a bottle of Avery Collaboration Not Litigation this weekend not knowing fully what it was. I wished I would have gotten two . Also got some Head Midas Touch, Oak Aged Yeti, and a 12 of Dale. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GrayWolf Report post Posted May 21, 2007 Tonight it'll be a nice glass of L'Artisanale while remembering the way the Cutty Sark used to look Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mindshifter Report post Posted May 21, 2007 Despite fallacies galore, and convoluted logic... and tortuous reasoning... weaving a web oh so tangled, getting his way by labyrinthine maneuvering... In some strange way I can't be anything but just thankful to the great Radomil Hill, for now I know better: without his eruditeness I would most certainly not be sitting here this Monday evening, all on my own, drinking some high quality absinthes! Genuine absinthes that proudly make use of the suffix e. In this order they slip, and have slipped, down my sore throat and eased it this evening: Good: Absinthe Helfrich Gooder: Absinthe Duplais Balance Goodest: Absinthe Duplais (well aged indeed. What a fantastic wormwood this has! Have you noticed that?) to our newest member Tom Hill, and - above all - to his great ancestor! I'm having a GREAT time here ploughing through this fabulously amusing thread about Hill's, and their bitter, odd decoction. I'm only halfways yet, and I think I'll need another glass or two in order to finish it to the bitter end. Wherever and whatever it will be. Thank Odin my supply of well crafted absinthes is good. Så skål på er, bröder och systrar! And to you GrayWolf, for the epitome of the great age of sail! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gertz Report post Posted May 21, 2007 I see a strong signal coming through on my drunken-swede-o-meter (a useful tool in Copenhagen). So, skål ... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mindshifter Report post Posted May 21, 2007 *beep beep beeeeep* Hell yeah. Stronger than evah tror jag bestämt. Saving some of my supply for this year's Scandi Moot though. The time is ripe to make another attempt, and so is some of the green stuff here. Again, skål (and good night)! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Absomphe Report post Posted May 21, 2007 Good question. It's not sediment, but it is what I described in my post a couple of days ago as dense green. I still think it might not have been thoroughly filtered, and, if it sits around long enough it will probably clear up some, and show a better refractiveness. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
OMG_Bill Report post Posted May 22, 2007 Just had to finish a bottle of Plymouth Gin. Okay, it works. Yadda yadda blah blah. G'night and good luck with Hills. ( I quit following that thread. It's like sand in underwear. No thanks!) Ya'll! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Joe Legate Report post Posted May 22, 2007 You're a smart man, OMG. Nothing like a little colloquial wisdom to put things in perspective. Maggie, Silent and I are still wallowing through our beginner's lessons in Martini-ness*. Tonight's lesson was in Vermouth: Martini & Rossi vs Tribuno vs Noilly Prat. I think I preferred the Tribuno with the Hendrix Gin although Silent opted for the Noilly Prat. Maggie is still choosing. Guidance and suggestions (and the usual cheap jokes) will be appreciated. *Orange Bitters still aren't in so our recipe is simply this. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bluescat Report post Posted May 22, 2007 We have only tried the Noilly Pratt. Sonny makes mine at a ratio of 2 parts gin to 1 part vermouth with 3 or 4 drops of bitters (alternating Fees+Regans-I like both). Very delicious. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Stomp Brockmore Report post Posted May 22, 2007 A Lagunitas Hairy Eyeball Ale. I love this one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Grey Boy Report post Posted May 22, 2007 A shitload of cellared beers from and with local brewers, damn did we have fun picking on the CO brewers(ie, the big micro guys, no names, sorry, but their beers sucked.) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Absomphe Report post Posted May 22, 2007 big micro Really an oxymoronic phrase that should have no meaning, although I understand your reference. Whatever happened to the good old days when a microbrewer had to produce 10,000 gallons, or fewer, to achieve that designation (and get the concomitant tax breaks). Oh, yeah, Redhook sold out to Anheuser Putsch, and then lobbied to have those tax breaks rescinded, and the rest was history. Grow, or die...nice economic precept, except somehow the quality of the product always suffers, so the brewery manages to do both. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Grey Boy Report post Posted May 22, 2007 I actually meant big-ego micro guys. I was refering to a couple cult-of-personality types and how crappy their beers tasted. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gertz Report post Posted May 22, 2007 while remembering the way the Cutty Sark used to look Didn't realize what you meant until I caught up on the news today. That is really sad. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Absomphe Report post Posted May 22, 2007 I actually meant big-ego micro guys.I was refering to a couple cult-of-personality types and how crappy their beers tasted. Ah, gotcha. Greg Kochitis, I believe it's called, though many are infected. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Boggy Report post Posted May 22, 2007 while remembering the way the Cutty Sark used to look Didn't realize what you meant until I caught up on the news today. That is really sad. Still the whisky is available, at least in warsaw I have seen it, so there is something to commemorate with. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites