I hold in my sweaty little hands right this moment an (empty) absinthe bottle from a friend who got it in the Czech Republic. The brand name appears to be “ABSINTH,” or at least that’s all it says. There’s more writing on it, which I’ll copy down, or at least try to approximate (since the aplhabet is clearly not the same as the one on my keyboard; it’s got a zillion strange diacritical marks). Also some of the writing is in a script-y style and I can’t remotely tell what it says.
Up top: ABSINTH
Below that in small lettering: PN SP 4/00 (This is maybe the bottling date?)
There’s a seal of some kind that I can’t read at all.
Then: Horka Lihovina
Bottom of front label: 0,5l Alk. 70% obj. (Half a liter, 140 proof)
Directly below that: PALIRNA U ZELENEHO STROMU
Back label:
Slozeni: lih, bylinny destilat
a macerat (smes bylin a
koreni), cukr (sugar ?), aroma, barviva
E133, E102.
Vyrobce/Vyrobca: Palirna u Zeleneho stromu -
Starorezna Prostejov
komanditni spolecnost
Dykova 8, 796 97 Prostejov
CESKA REPUBLIKA
Zlozenie: lieh, voda, bylinny
destilat a macerat (zmes bylin
a koreni), cukor, aroma,
farbivo E133, E102.
dovozca a distributor pre SR:
ing. Lubos Krivda K & K
Export-Import ul. Sucianska 31
036 08 Martin
tel. / fax 043/4285251
(So far we’ve apparently had a list of ingredients and an exporter’s address in two similar languages. I think this next part is a warning not to drive drunk.)
Absinth byl a je napojem
trochu tajemnym a proto
protazlivym. Opreden
ruznymi poverami pritahuje
stale znovu pozornost tech,
kteri jej zatracuji pro jeho
dabelskou moc i tech,
kterym imponuje svoji
sveraznou opojnosti.
And below that there’s what appears to a message telling us not to litter.
Don’t know if that helps the discussion or not. If anyone can read Czech, that would be a big, big help.