Absinthe
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- pencilpants0
the only time i've had it was a few shots after a night of only drinking beer - didn't end well.
- randommail0
Don't fall for all the marketing hype. There's no use of real wormwood outside of eastern europe. So just stick to whisky and gin!
- Bullshit. they make it in BC, Canada with wormwood. read next post.neferiu
- neferiu0
http://www.okanaganspirits.com/b…
They distill it with wormwood in the Okanagan of British Columbia, Canada. The shit is different. far too potent to really get into for my tastes. i got a bottle i take a shot from when i cant get to sleep, but for recreational, social drinking its a bit nasty & you most definitely do not hallucinate from the wormwood.. look it up.
- neferiu0
tastes like sambuca on steroids. has kind of a liquoricey rootyness to it. soooo powerful.
- i clean my snes cartridges with it.neferiu
- tastes like ouzo to me, the couple of times i've tried ittheredmasque
- Knuckleberry0
They stopped making it with wormwood. Wormwood was the hallucinogenic.
- Laurent0
Absinthe is historically described as a distilled, highly alcoholic (45%–74% ABV) beverage. It is an anise-flavored spirit derived from herbs, including the flowers and leaves of the herb Artemisia absinthium, commonly referred to as "grande wormwood". Absinthe traditionally has a natural green color but can also be colorless. It is commonly referred to in historical literature as "la fée verte" (the Green Fairy).
Although it is sometimes mistakenly called a liqueur, absinthe was not bottled with added sugar and is therefore classified as a spirit. Absinthe is unusual among spirits in that it is bottled at a very high proof but is normally diluted with water when drunk.
Absinthe originated in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. It achieved great popularity as an alcoholic drink in late 19th- and early 20th-century France, particularly among Parisian artists and writers. Due in part to its association with bohemian culture, absinthe was opposed by social conservatives and prohibitionists. Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Vincent van Gogh, Oscar Wilde, and Aleister Crowley were all notorious 'bad men' of that day who were (or were thought to be) devotees of the Green Fairy.
Absinthe was portrayed as a dangerously addictive psychoactive drug. The chemical thujone, present in small quantities, was singled out and blamed for its alleged harmful effects. By 1915, absinthe had been banned in the United States and in most European countries except the United Kingdom, Sweden, Spain, Portugal, Denmark and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Although absinthe was vilified, no evidence has shown it to be any more dangerous than ordinary spirit. Its psychoactive properties, apart from those of alcohol, have been much exaggerated.
A revival of absinthe began in the 1990s, when countries in the European Union began to reauthorize its manufacture and sale. As of February 2008, nearly 200 brands of absinthe were being produced in a dozen countries, most notably in France, Switzerland, Spain, and the Czech Republic.Commercial distillation of absinthe in the United States resumed in 2007.It seems that people talk about this drink as if it was a discovery....
- moth0
I'm sure resident chemist Nairn might have something to say about this.
I've tried lots. Never made me hallucinate. But it does give you a nice buzz - comparable to a few quality tequilas, or a short line....
That Marilyn Manson stuff is actually really nice and smooth by the way.
- sherm0
Had some in the Caribbean this year. Superb stuff.
- CALLES0
uuuuhhhhhhhh can i touch you?
- 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.
- moth0
Sebor was actually the first make to arrive - that I recall seeing circa 1996. I actually haven't had it since, but I recall it being one of the better experiences I've had with the stuff.
I've tried King of Spirits, Le Fee... none quite came close.
- scarabin0
avoid la feé at all costs, that shit is awful.
i've tried around a dozen absinthes and have found "mata hari" to have a good balance of flavor, alcohol and thujone content, and price. great entry-level absinthe if you're looking to try it for he first time.
- scarabin0
my favorite thing to do with absinthe is grind up an eighth of weed really fine and dump it in a bottle and let is soak for a couple weeks, shaking every so often before straining out the herb.
an average serving of the result will get you high AND buzzed; i call this a crunk-tail
put a shot of it in champagne, louche it, or drink it neat
a shot in 7-up is also very good
- Nairn0
Scarabin - right there with you, my vampiric friend.
I'm a picky smoker, and dealers here have been getting lazy and cheap over recent years, leaving progressively more and more fan leaf on the bud. Not good. Certainly not a great smoke... but there's still a lot of crystal on there. So, for the last few years I've been buying stupid-high strength 'vodka' (80%+), keeping all my shit leaf 'til there's an ounce or so, then dumping it in to a half-litre or so of the evil spirit. Shake it every couple of days, over a month or so, then a final shake and decant through a thickish filter.
Fuck me if, when mixed with a [insert your favourite brand of over-sweet, over-caffeinated energy drink (mine is Irn-Bru 32, *shudder*)] it isn't a ludicrously efficient and strong way to get uber fucked. Such a great trap for unwary [ex-]friends.
One thing for you - you shouldn't need to grind your weed up finely - the alcohol is an efficient weed solvent and will get it out of it's own volition. The bulk of your crystal is on the surface of the bud anyway. If you've quite green weed, you're only increasing the amount of undesirable plant tars and aromatics that dissolve-in, likely making it overbitter (which, when coupled with the already bitter wormwood is quite-so!).
Anyway, glad to hear someone else does this - I'm genuinely surprised all long-term smokers don't.
- Oh, and I mean Euro '80%+', which is to say, 80% alcohol. Not '80%+ proof', which I believe is much less, right?Nairn
- Ah, that would mean 40%.
'Interesting'.
http://en.wikipedia.…Nairn - There she is... Mmmm..
http://crazyshark.fi…Nairn - Gosh, I'm so interesting.Nairn
- i do this with rum, too...
tinctures are the shit!scarabin