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PASTIS

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  • 11-09-2008 7:25pm
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    glynngo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37 ✭


    just back from France and have a new favorite tipple.
    Pastis, if you like the taste of licorice and aniseed..
    Apparently its like absinthe.
    Mixer is creme de cassis (blackcurrant liquer)
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    oblivious
    Registered Users Posts: 4,381 ✭✭✭oblivious


    glynngo wrote: »
    just back from France and have a new favorite tipple.
    Pastis, if you like the taste of licorice and aniseed..
    Apparently its like absinthe.
    Mixer is creme de cassis (blackcurrant liquer)

    Love it to, i like it straight up with a llittle water, also great aperitif


    Pernod is probably the most common incarnate, but i would be surprised if you could not prick up one of the French brands in a good off licence

    glynngo wrote: »
    Mixer is creme de cassis (blackcurrant liquer)

    Pernod and black down your local, not quite the same though


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    BeerNut
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    oblivious wrote: »
    Pernod and black down your local, not quite the same though
    In my days behind the bar they were called "Leg-openers". Classy.

    I love pastis too, and will normally pick up one of those double packs of one litre plastic bottles of Pastis 51 when I'm going through a French airport.

    Absinthe trivia: Pastis is what Pernod started making when wormwood was made illegal. Today's pastis is just wormwood-free absinthe.

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    Hagar
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    Don't ask for pastis ask for a brand name. I'd recommend Ricard.

    Pernod, Ricard, 51 all top brands.


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