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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.From the Wikipedia article on ouzo:
"When water or ice is added to ouzo it turns milky white; this is because the key aromatic compounds known as terpenes are soluble in alcohol but not water. Diluting ouzo to less than around 40% ABV causes the terpenes to crystalise out of the solution and diffract light."
This answers the question why ouzo (or Pernod) turns cloudy, but not why it doesn't go cloudy. Sorry!
I would therefore imagine 1 of two possibilities are the case
1) the drink was not sufficiently diluted for this to happen
2) the drink does not contain sufficient terpenes
if (2) either they were not there to start with (fake Pernod) or something happened to them - Old stock prehaps (do terpenes break down with heat or light?)
Thank you all for your answers.
jake-the-peg. Answer 2 seems the most likely answer.
and the comment about old stock and the possable efects of heat or light.
What I did not mention in the original question is that on both occasions when there was no colour change the bottle was mounted on an optic measure, unusual as it is usually in the screw top bottle at the back of the shelf. By the way I did contact the Pernod distributors for the UK and they could not explain the reason and seemed to be very concerned about it.