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  • Thank you for this video. Honestly, on a whim I bought one of the brands that "Took the anise character down" on the hype and just wanted to taste it and I liked it. Now I can't wait to try St. Georges. This video was very informative as to what makes a true Absinthe. You seem very passionate about creating this unique product. Must be nice to enjoy what you do every day. You are a very lucky man indeed.

  • This guy make me want to distill my own absinthe

  • This video is like Candy!  :-D

  • "Or because they think it's going to make them hallucinate and chop their ear off"

    I SPAT OUT MY DRINK

  • i thought i liked st. george spirits but it turns out in reality i LOVE THEM.

  • I know what I'll be doing when I turn 21. In fact, when I retire, I can imagine myself opening a brewery. Women drink free on friday nights. ;p

  • steampunk drink much?

    

  • Glad to know about not using sugar, I knew not to light it but the sugar thing means I can try it all over again!

  • this guy is awesome

  • What's the name of the absinth he shows at around 8.00, seems quite nice. Would like to find out where to get a quality like that ;)

  • This is a cool video, very informative.

    I was given a bottle of St. George by my father over the weekend. He is a 'pastis' drinker, with Paul Ricard being his favorite, but found the St. George to be too much for him. It's sat in his cabinet for 3 years since he got it as a gift, and now it's mine. Can't wait to try it.

    What is the green one with the "bullshit color" he's bagging on at the end?

  • @Ironhandjohn I'd like to know about the "bullshit color" one too, so i can stay away from it..

    Does anyone know?

  • @NeoTranshuman

    Me, too...

  • @NeoTranshuman I think he's talking about Lucid since they were the first to import it. Could be wrong though. I think there are many others but he made it pretty clear it was the first brand to reenter the U.S. It is damn tasty but I can't wait to try St Georges now.

  • So, what was the brand he was referring to that "dumbed down" the flavor profile and anybody want to hazard a guess as to what he had to say about Manson's bit off-camera?

  • "oh this is smoooth" It certainly is a bullshit compliment to the harshness of alcohol (well......liquor, generally) ;]

  • "This reminds me of when i was a kid." Is'nt it kinda bad to be reminded of your childhood when you drink alcoholic beverages?

  • what an absinthe hipster

  • I want to try it!!! Anything for a moment of clarity!!!

  • why would breathing CO2 on it cause it to start on fire...I don't think so

  • @csaxon128 sarcasm? i dont think he really thinks that but idk?

  • @soldier4God01 I wasn't trying to be rude or anything...I was just wondering why he would say that and perhaps you are right. It just didn't sound like sarcasm to me but I have been wrong more than once. Cheers

  • @csaxon128 Cheers my friend

  • cool guy and very passionate about his work

  • this nigga is baaaaked haha

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  • Wow

  • drinking alcohol should not remind you of when you where a kid.

  • @ArielGingerman I was literally just about to type the same joke. Hard liquor should not remind people of youth.

  • @ArielGingerman You just had a boring life as a kid.

  • pls can somebody help me with the key ingredients ???star anise , wormwood,fennel,lemonbalm,mead­osweet and .... (didnt understood the last part , after the meadosweet ...) help pls , im really curious

  • @g3r0n1m033 stinging nettle

  • @g3r0n1m033

    Absinthe's basic ingredients are known as "The Trinity". Aniseed, Fennel, and Wormwood.

    Everything else is up to the distiller. In this case, St. George actually deviated from the traditional aniseed and went with the slightly different taste of star anise (which comes from China).

  • @g3r0n1m033

    Absinthe's basic ingredients are known as "The Trinity". Aniseed, Fennel, and Wormwood.

    Everything else is up to the distiller. In this case, St. George actually deviated from the traditional aniseed and went with the slightly different taste of star anise (which comes from China).

  • How does Absinthe remind you of being a kid ?

  • @EoinTheInsomniac absinthe tastes like licorice i think thats how its spelt well that flavors in alot of candies

  • this guy is amazing. haha.

  • @Ethanual haha I was trying to think of who this guy reminded me of and you hit the nail on the head

  • short version-"this will get you fucked UP"

  • Insanely jealous of this dude and his smooth vocation. sigh.

  • @AlphagraphicsCary You'll get there one day! Just practice being true to yourself, this man seems to be at peace with himself and keeps a creative spirit which not many people have.

  • Lmao At 3:55 xD

  • for more information, please visit: absinthefilm. c o m

  • "First batch was completely undrinkable.... drank it anyway"

  • @zachsworlds

    Dedication in a single sentence =)

  • awesome vid, I love Absinthe

  • I had a teacher that talked just like this guy. I fell asleep in his class all the time because his voice was so calming.

  • when he was talking about the company that uses less anise he was talking about le tourment verte right?

  • He looks like some kind of James Hetfield brother

  • He looks like some kind of James Hetfield brother

  • Yea I brought it for hallucination..just further proof that history is so fucking subjective...gave that shit away and got some weed like everyone else should. Alcohol handicapped the Native Americans so alcohol sucks

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  • We squeeza tha grapes *tit squeeze hands*

  • "If you want to hallucinate, there are alot of other fabulous ways of doing that ;)"

    This guy kicks ass.

  • what s his brand of absinthe cant read botle

  • @demlikposet i think it said st. george, absinthe verte

  • @sjjdiienno1 GSP!!! GSP!!! GSP!!!! GSP!!!!! GSP!!! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA­AAAAAAAAA!!!!!

  • im drinking my glass of st george right now... what are your thoughts on absinthe cocktails, as in mixing it with other drinks, etc? are you for it, against it, do you even care, or do you think that absinthe should be enjoyed just the way it is?

  • @furvert101 is st george any good??

  • @sinokman i personally think st george is amazing. i just recently bought my 3rd bottle, and i can say ive tried many different absinthes and this one is not by far my fav, but my fav nevertheless. its tied at no.1 with mansinthe. why? i prefer mansinthe on overall general flavor and physical effects, and i prefer st. george because of its overall general flavor. its different than mansinthe, it has more character, has a nice sweet aroma, but still i like them both equally for different reasons.

  • @sinokman i would write more but im limited on space for leaving a comment. but with what i said in my other comment, it all remains true. i have never had 'true original authentic' absinthe or vintage since im new to absinthe. im not sure if i have a sophisticated pallet, but i know something good when i find it, and that has been true with just about everything i have tasted... so maybe i do have a sophisticated pallet. lol. im just a noob to absinthe tho, so its hard to say if im accurate

  • i just bought the last bottle but i must not open till x-mas

  • @jlmpeace27 !!!SPOILER ALERT!!! its super delicious! hahaha!!!

  • Blimey, I want some.

  • this guy should do MAC conferences... this guy could sell anything... not kiddin

  • @daxplil you must be a windows owner... sounds like your implying mac sucks and if they had him speak it would make the company successful.

  • @furvert101 Im a linux/windows owner... what i was saying he could be *any product or brand* salesman and he would sell it.... y? I watched so many absinthe vids and this guy convinced me of buying a bottle... I like Mac too xD

  • @daxplil oh... ok then. i stand corrected... lol! yes absinthe is delicious, and i got a bottle of this stuff a couple nights ago, and i would have to say its really great!

  • As someone who does not like vodka at all, i'm a huge fan of their Hangar One mandarin vodka.

    So, as an absinthe lover, it's no surprise that I am so anxious to find a bottle of their absinthe.

  • 4:00

    You can breathe heavily enough on 60% (120proof) liquor to ignite it? No shit?

    I'd love for you to make a video of you doing that. I bet it'd get millions of views in just days.

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  • this video is so smooth

  • fuk me a chow vid that actually taught me something

  • CAN ANYONE HELP ME? where can i get a good absinthe, with a good "louche" taste etc.. in the UK pref under £40 ?

  • His passion is absolutely contagious

  • haha So blunt! and no bullshit...what a legend!

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  • Hes so passionate about absinthe- I want to go on a pilgrimage just to drink it with this guy.

  • This guy's funny!

  • Good video. I disagree with his choice of botanicals, but he's pretty genuine. I did notice that the plant he showed at 6:45 in the vid was not grand wormwood (A. absinthium) but, probably, A. "powis castle"

    Of course, that's just a plant outside the shop for decoration. Oh, but really, star anise and no anise?

  • Good video. I disagree with his choice of botanicals, but he's pretty genuine. I did notice that the plant he showed at 6:45 in the vid was not grand wormwood (A. absinthium) but, probably, A. "powis castle"

    Of course, that's just a plant outside the shop for decoration.

  • That's a helluva nice jacket that guy has on. I want it lol

  • 5:16 MARILYN MANSON!!!!!!

  • Plus he's hot in a beatnik sorta way. Helps hold the attention.

  • you can call it euphoria

  • 3:53 "Its not hallucination though, if you want to hallucinate there are a lot of other fabulous ways of doing that"

  • What a great video and a great product. To think this brewery has been in my backyard this whole time and I never new. Sounds like it is time to take a field trip.

  • "if you want to hallucinate there are a lot of other fabulous ways of doing that"

    lmao!

  • That dude is awesome...I hope to be able to visit his distillery one day.

  • That brewery is ASTOUNDING! It's a steampunks wet dream!!

  • yeay i learned stuff

  • what a babe

  • but doesn't the light makes it turn a dead green ,if you wanted to keep that nice green color wouldn't you just sell it in a dark bottle

  • If you want to retain the color certainly. Some makers want customers to be able to see that nice, attractive green color. Personally I would rather know that wonderful green color is going to stay that way though, so I prefer the dark bottles. This is my absolute only beef with the Delaware Phoenix absinthes. It's about as close to true peridot as you can find in a commercial absinthe, but it doesn't stay that way for long.

  • halusinating,just take allot off wormwood XD

  • Im not even taking in what hes saying, I just weridly love his voice and could listen to it all day !

  • Very informative and well presented. Terrific video.

  • Nice to see a man who values, and promotes authenticity-genuine experience can only be appreciated with dedication to understanding what you are doing-this goes for Absinthe as much as music. Art, or Life.

  • Poetry in a glass-love it!

  • Does not halluinate!!!?Then why did i wake up with the bottle of absinthe half way up my crack?Damn.

  • This guy is an awesome salesman

  • stamp collection?!?!? HA HA >

  • the colour that I see more in absinthe is red!!

  • I do not drink at all, and he made it sound lovely.

  • My personal absinthe hangover was different just like the intoxication. It is what I imagine a weak dose of exstasy would be ( never done drugs.) All I know is that when I woke up I just wallowed around on my bed and the cool sheets felt so cool and smooth., Wonderful stuff.

  • The threshold physical sensation is very similar, yes :)

  • In Mykonos, I was taught to pour water into my shot of oozo. It was delicious and the colour turned from clear to opalescent. That accompanied my breakfast of a small piece of bread and cheese, then I was off to the beach via boat! (I love Lance's absinthe-colored scarf.) Since I live in SF, I need to visit him!!!

  • Absinthe tastes and smells beautiful. I love it. :)

  • how many shot 25ml can a person drink?

  • @197anthony, Well bro, I have drank 3-4 louched drinks, with the proper measurements, and it was good enough. I hear that sugar cubes are not recommended for a good Absinthe. I have some from Germany, and it was not what I expected, but that is understandable. Folks tend to say you will have hallucinations, but that's a misnomer. Remember this, you need 30ml or 1 liquid ounce of Absinthe, and add 6 parts of ice cold water to it. Btw, we have a VERY close name ha! Good drinking man, and have fun!

  • you don't drink absinthe in shots. It's a concentrate, its meant to be diluted to be drunk properly.

  • absinthe in shots=down on the floor unconsious

  • @mysticalclown Absinthe in shots = projectile hurl. Dilute it, definitely!

  • @mysticalclown ...and with psychotic behaviour from the big amount of thuagen

  • How many shot can you drink?

  • This guy is pretty cool, great information

  • When I was drinking absinthe I always had that "drugged "feeling which you get on some drugs.

    never hallucinated though.

  • hahahaha "This reminds me of my childhood." That's messed up. xD

  • this guy is cool and funny with his comments.... he's real!

  • make me want to start making my own absinthe, I wish I could work in an absinthe distillery and learn and one day build my own, that would be amazing

  • haha .

    this guy is really cool for some reason.

  • Can anyone tell me if LUCID is any good? What should I buy thats on the shelves these days? Thanx!

  • Lucid isn't all that bad. Granted, I haven't tasted an absinthe with a cost in the triple digits, but Lucid seemed to me to be good for those curious about the drink.

  • as far as actual absinthes go, lucid is pretty bottom-of-the-barrel. However, it's distinguished among most liquor store offerings in that, unlike king of spirits or le tourment vert, it IS actual absinthe.

    If you want to try absinthe but don't want to pay AS much, get lucid. If you want to try absinthe and want to shell out a chunk of money, I'd suggest ordering a bottle of Delaware Phoenix Meadow of Love, or PA Distillery's Vieux Carre.

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  • I love this guy. He could talk about insuring his stamp collection and I'd listen.

  • @hitchcockm00

    I was just coming down here to write more or less the same comment. I effing love this guy.

  • Kubler.

    That's a good absinthe. It's like drinking a dream you had as a child.

  • Drinking absinthe is ONLY a BODY trip feeling! Kind of vibe-like & in-tune with things, but he's right : no hallucinations!

    The way people would often add a hallucinogenic effect in the 1800's was by taking 4-5 drops of an opiate called Laudanum & they would drop it on a sugar cube on the absinthe spoon. Then they would light the absinthe with a match, absinthe's about 100 proof, they would replace the spoon with the sugar cube over top to melt. Once melted, it was dropped in, stirred & drank!

  • no they didnt

  • Yes they did!

    Laudanum was used with Absinth, as well as, whiskey! It's proven, documented & even played on the History Channel! Also, my aunt is Anne Woosley of the Arizona Historical Society. In my 28 years, I have visited her only about 100 times & of those 100 times, 50 of them must've been spent talking about Arizona history. I've also read numerous newspapers (1850-1910 or so) reporting on deaths from the concoctions

    Arizona is known for the

    Wild West towns like Tucson & Tombstone!

    =)

  • yeah, no. Fire and Absinthe were only ever associated after the 1990's, when Czech "Absinth" (actually Wormwood Vodka) distillers convinced people to burn sugar to disguise the absolutely terrible flavor of their product.

  • Yeah..wrong!

    It's documented well in the towns Silver Springs, Kansas City, San Francisco & Tombstone that people used sugar & fire to mask the ANISE flavor from 1870 to about 1915! Not ONLY that, but the ONLY absinthe in the United States in the 1800's was FRENCH - NOT CZECH! Oh, and in the 1990's absinth was ILLEGAL in the United States! NOBODY was using sugar in ANY sort of absinth as it wasn't a popular drink here in the latter part of the 20th century!

    Get your facts straight buddy!

  • documented well, eh? then why don't you provide said documentation that the fire ritual was EVER used before 1990. Because the Wormwood Society is easily one of the largest and most reputable sources of absinthe history and information in the world, and they've shown time and time again that the fire ritual did not exist before 1990 when Czech distilleries exploited a loophole to export faux-absinthe into the United Kingdom.

    Absinthe was never burned until 1990.

  • Can I see your sources?

  • "if you really want to hallucinate there are a lot of other really FABULOUS ways of doing that."

    Nice, I love this guy

  • I Could listen to this man talk all day. he speaks with wonderful pronunciation. sorry i know it sound odd but its true

  • same, he has a great voice.

  • Exactly, this guy explains it to you in very understandable terms, and its very easy to comprehend what he says, I cant wait to order some Absinthe next month.

  • @abalas08 its cuz hes educated lol. unlike 90% of the people in this goddamn world, he cares about how he sounds. i cant stand when people have the attitude of "i do what i want." those people talk however they want and dont care about whether or not theyre saying the right things as long as they get their point across. people butcher the english language nd everyday theres something even worse than the day before.

  • I suppose an Absinthe distiller would be insulted if someone broke out a sugar cube before trying the Absinthe- like tossing salt on a gourmet dinner prepared by a master chef- good way to get pummeled with a meat tenderizer or stabbed repeatedly with a sugar cube holder (wouldn't do too much damage- but would leave a mark)

  • nah a dont think so. only lighing it on fire

  • Right on, that's the way I see it as well.

  • is this shit still banned in the US i only watched this vid with my friend and he said it was banned in the US

  • It was until 2007 i think.

  • What i read is that the chemical thujone in the worm wood that makes absinthe unique is banned and to be FDA approved there cant be any in it. The impression I got is that while you can buy a bottle of booze that says absinthe on it in the USA its not the real deal.

  • Did you not pay attention to the video at all?

    What, do you have the attention span of a log?

  • you know... it didn't state anywhere in the video that it was made legal or if it was still illegal this video could have been mad years and yeaars ago

  • Why in the world would someone go to the trouble of producing something they can't even sell?

    He says right in the video that Wormwood isn't illegal.

    He shows you a wormwood plant.

    You really are dense.

  • The video could have been mad outside the US so that's why i asked, why did you need to be suck an asshole about it?

  • Because stupid should hurt.

  • you're really an asshole you know that? why did you have to go and make something like this such a big deal?

  • pwned

  • why do you have to use such foul language, justin?

    Rude!

  • you know why i am using "such foul language" because an asshole like you had to go and get me pissed off about something so small i was having a great week untill you came along im going to block you because i can't have any more stress than i need for my show friday

  • LOL!

    You can't block people on someone else's videos, you moron.

    You really are stupid.

  • not on this video dipshit

  • Justin! I am sick of your fowl language, and your absolute lack of intelligent comment. You should be ashamed.

    Now, leave the nice man alone and go play in traffic.

    Damarei is obviously made of win and cast iron testicles, so leave him be, so that he can bask in his own awesome, or something else befitting a man of his standing.

  • Damn it to hell. I used the wrong 'foul'. I guess Justin's been using bird language, and I'm /still/ sick of it. I mean, seriously, what the hell, man.

  • you say im an unintelligent commenter whe he's the one who said, and i quote, "stop being fat" and a reply to the comment i gave after that "That's illegal"

    if you are saying i'm the stupid one then you must not have been reading any of the comments he has been replying to me.

  • you haven't "met" them.

  • what do you mean i haven't met them, what does that have to do with anything?

  • Why thank you, good sirrah, in assisting me with dealing with this riff raff and squabhobble.

  • stop being fat

  • what made you think i was fat? that was a really stupid comment. I weigh about 130lbs... I can't believe you were the one calling me stupid...

  • That's illegal

  • There you go again with the stupid ass comments. If I did anything illegal in talking to you, I would love to see proof...