Wines and SpiritsMy Full Lucid Absinthe Review
After some experimenting during my college years in the eighties, I have completely given up on on everything save for a cocktail now and again with my wife in the evenings. She has never so much as tried a puff of pot, so between the two of us we figured that we would never be able to make absinthe a part of out evening cocktail hour.
Its too bad too, because I had heard so much about absinthe recently but with so many questions about its actual contents and what all is actually in it I fugued that she and I would just have to go without it.
Then a couple of friends at work mentioned that they had tried a bottle of Lucid absinthe that they had bought in a liquor store here in town and explained that it was a ò€œlegalò€ brand of absinthe that had passed U.S. Government inspection. Not only was it ò€œcertified top shelfò€ as far as the quality was concerned but there was nothing in it that would send me into the ò€œozone layerò€.
To make a long story short, I bought a bottle and brought it home and showed it to my wife and we got out the glasses to give it a try. The alcohol content was high, so we mixed it with some water and a t-spoon full of sugar like my friend at work instructed me to do.
The flavor was definitely dominated by black licorice and to be honest I could take it or leave it, because frankly, I don"t like sweet drinks. My wife loved it though and has drank it every evening out on the deck with me since that first night and I have had to bring home another bottle since the first one ran out three days later.