# Help me with my really old alcohol

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 1, 2012, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-my-really-old-alcohol/626946 "2012-07-01T22:35:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![MickNickMaggies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/59ef9b/32.png) [@MickNickMaggies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MickNickMaggies)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-my-really-old-alcohol/626946/21 "2012-07-02T12:48:19Z")

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The Ricard pastis will be okay. In fact, there is nothing shameful in that at all. We kill a bottle of pastis every couple of months and our current bottle is Ricard.

Pastis was created as a sort of mock-Absinthe after the banning of said drink, and you drink it much the same way- about one part pastis to seven water. Sugar and/or flavoured syrups and ice optional.

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**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-my-really-old-alcohol/626946/22 "2012-07-02T13:43:27Z")

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A shame about that armagnac. I was hoping it was from a quality producer. It had a chance to be fabulous, dammit!

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**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-my-really-old-alcohol/626946/23 "2012-07-02T13:59:54Z")

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> [@MickNickMaggies](#):
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> The Ricard pastis will be okay. In fact, there is nothing shameful in that at all. We kill a bottle of pastis every couple of months and our current bottle is Ricard.
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> Pastis was created as a sort of mock-Absinthe after the banning of said drink, and you drink it much the same way- about one part pastis to seven water. Sugar and/or flavoured syrups and ice optional.

Five-to-one water-to-pastis is the more usual, but I’ve seen anything up to eight-to-one.  
It’s a great, refreshing summertime drink, but you do have to like the taste of licorice/anise.

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**Author:** ![JustinC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justinc/32/8083_2.png) [@JustinC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustinC)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-my-really-old-alcohol/626946/24 "2012-07-02T14:02:32Z")

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> [@silenus](#):
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> The armagnac is also a “decent” cooking brandy. But yeah, your parents had crap taste in booze. There is no excuse for buying “Mr. Boston” anything.

Maybe they drank all the good stuff?

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**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2012, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-my-really-old-alcohol/626946/25 "2012-07-04T03:30:31Z")

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> [@JustinC](#):
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> Maybe they drank all the good stuff?

Sadly, no. They just have no taste.

I guess the good news is I can save a bunch of space now..and fill a nice recycling bag with all these bottles.

Thanks for the help, everyone. I won’t let my parents know what the consensus was. 🙂  
-D/a

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