Sunday, July 18, 2010

Chartreuse or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Herbal Liqueur.


Hello gang I guess for those of you who don't know who I am let me start by introducing myself, my name is Eric Alsandor and I am one of the operational managers over at Publik. I havnt had a chance to blog on this here blog-a-majig so I thought now was a good time to start... that and I finally ferreted out the password to this blogger account from Eddie heh heh, er ahem.

I guess I'm more known for my wit and not my grammar so please bare with me, I ingested a lot of artificial sweeter as a child.




CHARTREUSE

I love this crazy liqueur I love the history, I love the color, I love the taste, hell I even love the crazy wack-a-do monks that make the stuff! YEAH that's right I said monks, FRENCH monks, from La Grange. For nearly 300 years Carthusian Monks, also known internationally as the Order of St. Bruno have been producing the stuff locally incidentally being blitz outa their minds. Being celibate doesn't mean you cant bro down with your fellow monks. Not one monk has the whole recipe its actually a closely guarded secret shared among three of the orders senior monks. Whats even more interesting is that followers of this order all have taken a vow of silence to protect the formula! Dude I want to party with these guys, albeit a quite party!
(over 130+ herbs, you thought Colonel Sanders was bad!).

My personal connection to this product comes from living in a world of Walmarts and Waffle Houses, a contemporary sterile place which is modern America. Its things like this "Green Magic Elixir" that seems to transport me back in time... er maybe that's just the herb saint talking.
Some of the craziest wild-n-out moments in my life have been off this stuff and I'm what you call a professional carouser of sorts. Next time your in the shop skip the amateur stuff like Jaeger and ask any of my guys for this fine product. Just a word to the wise don't try and smell it just take it down, and prepare to smell a little like Christmas. Cryptic I know, but you'll thank me!

Claim to fame, the only liqueur so fine they named a color after it!

Chartreuse-bottle.jpg

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