Absinthe
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- Nairn0
haha, I'd just finished writing this when I noticed moth's post above Am i that predictable? :)
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I used to be big in to absinthe when it was first coming back in to Blighty. Used to buy it direct from a poet beatnik who drove around Newcastle by day, doling the stuff out, then retreat to some dingy bar to get high and do spoken word by night. Magic.
There are indeed loads of shitty 'mere high alcohol brands', with a general rule of thumb being - the more 'novel and trendy' or 'traditional and french' a label is, the less likely it is to contain functional amounts of absinthium, or wormood.
One brand I found that did have a high wormwood content is 'Sebor' which used to be quite a simple, cheap one. Looking at their site now, I see they've gone a bit trendy, bucking my rule of thumb a little.
Alternately, the last bottle I bought was '35', available from http://www.absintshop.com/ (though I'd prefer sebor, if I were you).
Without getting too absolutist myself, try and ignore people who says things in absolute terms like 'They stopped making it with wormwood' as that's patently not true. God only knows why people make shit like that up.