Green liqueur

Charles Meadows

This is a silly question - but I have seen brandy glasses with a light green drink in "Les fils du vent" and "Life after Django". Anyone know what this is?

Chartreuse?

Passacaglia

Charles, I've both films as well and missed it, I think - is it Angelo drinking it in Legacy?

Chartreuse, a modern absinthe, or possibly a Bavarian weiss, doused with a bit of woodruff syrup. Chez Fernand, or La Chope? - I'd think the latter (I mean, weiss)....as does the goblet shape you mention. Just a guess.

Jazzaferri

is it a MILKY GREEN OR CLEAR

Passacaglia

I don't know of a milky green liqueur, actually. Milky yellow, Pernod in water but that's usually in a tom collins-esque glass. What are you thinking of, Jay?

Jazzaferri

Absinthe...afaik the only real absinthe made according to the original recipe is made here in bc. It turns a milky greenish rather than the pastis yellow. You will get to try some next year at dij

Creme de menthe is a lovely deep clear green

jonpowl

It could be Chartreuse, a French liqueur made by the Carthusian Monks since 1737. It is composed of distilled alcohol aged with 130 herbs, plants and flowers. A last maceration of plants gives its color to the liqueur.
In Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof, the bar owner Warren (Quentin Tarantino) serves a green liqueur. After being asked what was just served, Warren says, "Chartreuse, the only liqueur so good they named a color after it."

Charles Meadows

Passacaglia, Yep Angelo is drinking it at the bar in that scene.

François RAVEZ

It could also be a "perroquet" [a parrot] which is how french people call a pastis added with mint syrup.

Best

François RAVEZ

Passacaglia

Jazzaferri wrote:

Absinthe...afaik the only real absinthe made according to the original recipe is made here in bc. It turns a milky greenish rather than the pastis yellow. You will get to try some next year at dij

Creme de menthe is a lovely deep clear green

Jay, as in wormwood? Good lord, the closest I've come to taking a trip with the Green Fairy was when I played Rimbaud - and that was close enough! :shock: Though curious nevertheless.....see you next year.

Interesting on it's reaction with water, didn't know that. Among apéritifs/digestifs, I enjoy Chartreuse, pastis, Lillet, Pineau des Charentes, typically.

Even though it's on the Savoie, Madeleine Kamman has a nice little treatment on Chartreuse and its monastery in her book, Savoie: The Land, Food and Its People.

Francois, that's really interesting, thanks. For some reason, I want to read Flaubert again.

Charles, lol, re-watched Life again, and missed it! Argh...even though it stood out, when I first saw the film....I didn't expect a liqueur, in the context.

Jazzaferri

Yep....complete with wormwood...however my reading and experiments with it indicate that one would probably die from alcohol poisoning before one got a noticeable high....does seem to impact dreams though.

scot

You can get a wide variety of absinthe in bars in Pennsylvania. Last time I was there I tried a number of them including Pernod brand, which behaves and tastes exactly like Pernod sans wormwood. That's to say it turns milky when you add water and because it has a pretty high alcohol content, it'll give you a pretty good buzz pretty quickly. The other varieties tasted similar and gave the same results. To me it was like having a strong pastis, but it seemed weird drinking it in a dark bar - I like pastis but it's a summertime-out-on-the-patio drink for me. I know there is cool exoticism and mythology about this stuff, but my "research" says it's much ado about nothing. Kind of like Coors beer back in the 60s.