I have (yesterday) tried the commercial release of Boggy, and gave Boggy some comments - he asked that they be published here verbatim, so here it is (apologies to all for not taking the time to write it up in French):

It is not nearly as brown as it appeared in those pictures by Frenchman. It is a nice feuille morte color.

The scent is not powerful, but not unpleasant in any way. I can detect of course, anise and wormwood, but it is really quite seamless, with no alcohol obstrusiveness. Allowed to air out for a little while, it develops a faint, pleasant buttery nuance. There are no off or unpleasant nuances of any kind.

Louched carefully with cold water, the scent sharpens somewhat, a little minty, but does not really blossom or fill the room. Still, nothing unpleasant. The louche is very respectable, a nice opaque yellowish-white.

The feel in the mouth is nice and creamy.

The flavor is good - it has a good balance, quite seamless. No off tastes of crappy alcohol, distilling or coloring mistakes, etc.

There is a sharp, dry wormwood finish on the back of the palate. I used no sugar (I never do anymore).

There is nothing outstanding about it, but nothing unpleasant, either. It is a "soft" absinthe I could easily drink it on a regular basis. I think it would age quite well, and get stronger in terms of scent and flavor.

I have to be honest and say I knew HG people who were making absinthe this good years ago, however, if those people had gone commercial instead of gotten bored and gone away, they would be blowing 97% of today's products out of the water.

I should add that the camera captures the stuff as considerably darker than it looks to the naked eye.

Thank you for the review Artemis!

(sorry but I moved it to the English section, our first review there!)

Thanks. I thought about posting it here, but I went for the French thread because that's where it first came up.

I also have had some of Boggy's new absinthe. It was quite good, and Artemis pretty much nailed it. It is a solid, well-made, refreshing and gentle absinthe. It's aroma did not fill the room, but it was balanced and clean, as were the flavors. Its finish was well-layered, and built up nicely
with just enough tingle and spice, a good mouth-feel, and a nice citrus element in the linger.

I sense this one is about trying to honor the spirit of pre-ban absinthe, right down to its attractive medium amber and gold feuille morte color.

I agree with artemis that some HGer should have turn CO , but I understand them : Even if they are CO no one could really live out of absinthe except those that were there in the early days . It's an really small market that there is wolves eating the part of each other but the whole pie is still small .

I have in mind helfrich, stefano

That's not really fair. All the people I know in this small absinthe "business" are very nice and I wouldn't call any of them "wolves eating ... each other."





Piranhas, sharks, snakes, maybe. But definitely not wolves. :-)

Just for you, today is the day when pi opponents are arguing for a mathematical constant that is twice as large as pi. BBC story.

Nice to hear from you Alan ... yeah I know wolves are too nice

Without doubt.

I was thinking of "The Nephilim" (American), "Luger" (Swede) and "Aion" (Austrian).

2001 NOLA, I still remember that glass of Nephilim.