And Booze is Back too...New Herbsaint on the way

[Michelino]

Now more like absinthe than ever...New Herbsaint coming out this fall.

http://www.neworleansabsinthehistory.com/

"The Sazerac Company of New Orleans will be launching a Herbsaint Absinthe product in the Fall of 2009. It will resurrect the original formula used by J. Marion Legendre from 1934 when his product was called Legendre Absinthe. He later renamed the product Herbsaint after being forced by the government to cease using the word Absinthe."

http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff235/Herbsaint/NewHerbsaintmockup.jpg

And according to these chowhounds (http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/636516), the Sazerac is now more popular than ever ...

Oh yeah babee...Cocktail hour is here at last!

[PaulC]

had to claim early entry into a thread named "and booze is back too"...

and nicely timed for the return of the bears to new orleans this weekend... :D

can you get them to release their new batch this friday please kind sir???..

[festivalgirl]

Perfect thread for this!!!

http://themoment.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/tales-of-a-cocktail-sampling-sazeracs-in-new-orleans/?hpw
Tales of a Cocktail | Sampling Sazeracs in New Orleans

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/blogs/themoment/posts/0715saz.jpg

[Zydekitten]

Agreed . . . did booze ever leave??!? ;)

I think it's great about Herbsaint's return - even though I'm not a real absinthe fan (don't really enjoy that licorice taste). :) :o

[festivalgirl]

Agreed . . . did booze ever leave??!? ;)

I think it's great about Herbsaint's return - even though I'm not a real absinthe fan (don't really enjoy that licorice taste). :) :o

Me neither ...... but I have imbibed on occasion. :p