Absinthe
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- ninjasavant
After last night I can now definitively say that drinking 1/3 a bottle of absinthe from the Czech Republic does not, in fact, make you hallucinate.
It does however make you throw up like crazy in a car wash parking lot and wish you were dead the following morning.
- detritus0
Which brand?
And, it's not supposed to make you 'hallucinate' as such, though there is a psychedelic effect.
- chossy0
Nothing wrong with hallucinating threw drink. Christ my hangovers have me wildly hallucinating :/.
- ********0
def. a different drunk, feels more high than drunk
- sort of********
- I never threw up on weed.ninjasavant
- i know people who have, noobs********
- actually hash********
- I have thrown up off weed and and beer mixed widlly the wrong way... it was later found out laced. just remember a nice cold shower.Iggyboo
- coold showerIggyboo
- heh college. I dont miss it.Iggyboo
- sort of
- ninjasavant0
Dunno, nice bottle with some kind of netting around it. I do briefly remember the glow and trail from the brake lights looking, well, the only word I can come up with is perforated. It wasn't too long after that that I passed out until I had to ask the driver to pull over.
- detritus0
I found a tub of Wormwood in a box today, along with some other random natural entheogens i have, stuffed at the back of a cupboard. After the other resurrected absinth thread of a few days ago, I have resolved to retest the 'only effect is alcohol' scientific finding by making up some comparative samples and imbibing them over a course of weeks -
There wil be 4 comparisons in total -
1) Straight Absinth (from one of the bottles I have)
2) Straight 88% pure alcohol Balkan vodka
3) wormwood-enriched absinth
4) wormwood-enriched balkan vodkaGiven that, beyond the very occasional bottle of wine, i don't really drink any more, I shall be soused any way - but I hope to confirm my previous experiences of being mesmerised by the green faeries with the versions that should have a strong thujone content.
Long Live Science.
- You are perfection.chossy
- would be fun to visit you._salisae_
- Not recently, _sal - if I get back off the wagon, perhaps I can rekindle the exciting me that apparently died a while back.detritus
- HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HAdetritus
- take pictures!ninjasavant
- I need to document this properly.
*TO THE BAT BLOG!*detritus - you blog as well?
*pants_salisae_ - Not yet, but for Science and love I'd climb any mountain, leap across any escarpment or write daily in a blog.detritus
- That I did not also capitalise love means nothing.
NOTHING AT ALL.detritus - true love is subtle and shouldn't require capitalisation_salisae_
- ********0
Absinthe is a myth - it's just a heavy downpour of alcohol with the colour green. It wouldn't be sold today if it had any exquisite properties. Most of 19th Century literary descriptions (which created the myth), were done by top-notch writers - like Coleridge - who also used laudanum (or opium drops) to ease the pain of tuberculosis.
- doesnotexist0
Absinthe is a distilled, highly alcoholic (45%-75% ABV), anise-flavored spirit derived from herbs, including the flowers and leaves of the herb Artemisia absinthium, also called "wormwood." Absinthe is typically of a natural green color but is also produced in both clear and artificially colored styles. It is often called "the Green Fairy."
Although it is sometimes mistakenly called a liqueur, absinthe is not bottled with added sugar and is therefore classified as a spirit.[1] Absinthe is uncommon among spirits in that it is bottled at a high proof but is historically diluted with water when it is drunk.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abs…
got a bottle in st. maarten when i was there, nice stuff. too much anise flavor though and i hate black licorice.
- mg330
Ahhh, memories of Tokyo, 2006...
- ********0
Bull - I participated in a rural "aguardente" session once (aguardente=uisge beata, for the Irish). In the traditional way, the first 20 bottles that comes out of the distiller (around 70-80% alc.) are pure knock-outs, which you need to sip and test to control the fire below. When your job is done you're just in a state of pure madness, and it doesn't even need sugar. I guess that where's most of devilish traditional stories usually sprung from. It's really a knock-out and you see things that weren't even there.
- moldero0
don't know much about it, only tried it once, Absinthe is yummy, but why was the crap i tried blue? maybe the bar i was in (in Guanajuato) sold shite? no idea.
- doesnotexist0
color of the absinthe doesn't really matter. i had some that was red and was supposed to be stronger than most.
should be drinking it with some sugar and ice-cold water. if it's real absinthe it will turn cloudy.
- creative-0
Been there, done that, sicked up on the t-shirt.
- chossy0
So how did you get on dietsarus?. did ye die frae the booze aye.
- VanDerFull0
Ah the good old green fairy that has more than once spoiled a good party. Gave me the worst hangover of my life as well. Absinthe is a bitch...
- Jaline0
Some people I know had felt the same effects from absinthe as you did, ninja. No hallucinations...
- OnesandZeros0
why not just eat mushrooms?
- mikotondria30
Tales abond of Russian alcoholics, when faced with extinct vodka supplies would spread toothpaste on white bread and leave it in the fridge for some time until various microbes produced a mold that was utterly debilitating and hallucinatory.
I would assign the same level of desperation to seeking out a spirit that might possibly, according to some people on the internet, contain something that some people think might make you hallucinate.
If you really want to hallucinate, and it sounds fascinating really, doesn't it ?, then take hallucinogenic drugs. However there are far more important and profound revelations contained in those experiences than just invoking the mental television of hallucinations, which are actually just a patterned noise produced by the 2 sides of the brain being out of sync and the overflow and interference passing into the visual cortex. Do real drugs, think hard about what happens to you. Read some clever books by Leary, McKenna or Anton-Wilson. Do all of these things instead of drinking state-sanctioned floor cleaner marketed to you in perfume bottles and on the notion that you might 'see things that aren't there', whatever the hell that means. If you can see it, then it's there.
