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[arethinn]

I am currently sipping Douglas Fir eau de vie* mixed with elderflower liqueur (St. Germain), thinned with a little water. The eau de vie is green (naturally green, that is) and the liqueur is pale gold; the water made the mixture "louche" a little, so the overall visual effect is like a weak absinthe. It tastes, well, sort of like you might think: herbal, sweet, and flowery. All things considered, I feel kind of like I am having a more-fey-than-thou moment.

The eau de vie was a pricey gamble which fortunately turned out not to be basically upscale PineSol, as I feared it might. It does have that piney-fresh sort of evergreen flavour, but it's subtle and it doesn't assault your eyes and sinuses like the vaguely similiar flavours in gin. (Not that I dislike gin, but it doesn't play well with many others.)


* Most elvish-sounding distilled spirit evar or what?

Comments

[zahdi.livejournal.com]

sounds yummy

[mmsword.livejournal.com]

I'll need to track down some St. Germain. While Douglas Fir doesn't sound down my alley, I adore Elderflower...

[digitalsidhe.livejournal.com]

I'm already familiar with St. Germain (and even have a very small amount of it in stock). What's this Douglas Fir eau de vie? Does it have a name? What's the bottle look like? Where would one find it?

[arethinn]

Clear Creek Distillery, which also does a nice apple brandy. I bought it at BevMo, myself, so it shouldn't be that hard to come across. See http://www.bevmo.com/Shop/ProductDetail.aspx?ProductID=21916 (although I think describing it as "shocking" green is a bit strong; the colour in the photo is fairly accurate).

[silvaerina-tael.livejournal.com]

That sounds really tasty, actually. Then again, I don't find Buckley's horrible, and I've found one gin, Hendrick's, that can be drunk either neat or preferable on the rocks.

[arethinn]

What are you talking about? I drink Tanqueray and Bombay Sapphire neat. ;) I just understand that many people don't like that pungent evergreeny flavour and the way it can burn your eyes if you exhale into the glass, so I pointed out that this was nothing like that. Very refined actually.

[silvaerina-tael.livejournal.com]

Tanqueray and Bombay Sapphire? Wow... Hendricks is, from what I've been told by one of my roommates who also does drink the two aforementioned beverages neat also, smooth. Then again, I don't mind the evergreen flavour either...