another thread about Absinthe...

[ChefWide]

AAP,

Mon, real Absinthe IS ADDICTIVE! Thats BAD.

My dad did a favor for a Foreign Navy that was in serious trouble in SF harbour in the 50s... as a present they gave him a case of absynthe of which 10 of the 12 bottles survived to the time i was in my late teens and found them.

I can verify that none of the original bottles from that case are intact.

 

[blut wump]

It was illegal in the UK until a few years back. You can buy it in some supermarkets now. Tesco stocks it and I bought a bottle last year. It was, I think, 68% alcohol (136 proof) and I liked the aniseed taste. It's clear green until you add water when it goes cloudy green.

I just took it with water rather than getting into the voodoo of the special spoon and igniting it with sugar or anything. It gives a pleasant buzz and I recall getting weird dreams after drinking it. There's an active ingredient in absinthe called thujone which is a mild hallucinogen.

 

[tokebloke]

In Ontario you can get it at the liquor store. They have diff. strengths......the only good one is around $80-$90 for a 26er. All the others are too weak to work.

 

[silverfish]

http://www.alandia.de/ritual/ritual.htm

good shit, i would invest in a couple of cheap absinth spoons and glasses, great conversation piece

also google absinth(e) kits

So I decided to try some Absinthe. 3 bottles and some of that sugar and special spoons and glasses. Anyone try the below varieties? I'll probably save it for the summer.

ALANDIA Suisse La Bleue Clandestine
Absinthe Abisinthe Amer
Absinthe Abtshof 80

 

[stilleto]

that guy that went missing off the cruise ship had been drinking it with his friends.

 

[wnt2bBeast]

yes its really neon green

save the dough there are no hallucino effects me and 2 others dranka whole bottle..it will get you fucked up but then again so will tequila

 

[HunterUk]

It was illegal in the UK until a few years back. You can buy it in some supermarkets now. Tesco stocks it and I bought a bottle last year. It was, I think, 68% alcohol (136 proof) and I liked the aniseed taste. It's clear green until you add water when it goes cloudy green.

I just took it with water rather than getting into the voodoo of the special spoon and igniting it with sugar or anything. It gives a pleasant buzz and I recall getting weird dreams after drinking it. There's an active ingredient in absinthe called thujone which is a mild hallucinogen.

I sell it at the off license where I work, amazingly expensive for such a nasty tasting drink (aniseed/liquorice), about £35 for a 70cl bottle (vodka would cost you around £12). Stuff we sell is the wormwood variety and lime green and 70% alcohol (140 proof?) - I found it just gets you drunker quicker whilst tasting horrible

 

[HiDnGoD]

I forgot to mention...stay the fuck away from the homemade stuff. Wormwood is extremely poisonous in the right doses and many a hippy dipshits have been hospitalized attempting the do-it-yourself stuff.

Tis was the problem with the original stuff, back at the turn of the last century. Drove people crazy, it was outlawed all over the world. The new stuff is safe. Just 140 proof booze. My daughter bought a bottle at the LCBO, & I wasn't impressed. I'd rather have a rusty nail.

 

[Dunk]

i brought a good 5 opr 6 bottles of it back from Prague this summer.

Shit burns your throat on the way down. Really strong. Fucks ya up like any other alcohol. Did the whole light the sugar on fire and drop it in bullshit but who gives a fuck.

 

[stilleto]

i brought a good 5 opr 6 bottles of it back from Prague this summer.

Shit burns your throat on the way down. Really strong. Fucks ya up like any other alcohol. Did the whole light the sugar on fire and drop it in bullshit but who gives a fuck.

i can't be bothered playing with my alcohol. I just want to drink the shit and get fucked, not play light up games.