Absinthe

[kn91m5]

Anybody here drink Absinthe ? i picked up a bottle the other day very interesting.

[thejmasterslim]

yes it is

[PeepingScott]

Please talk about it!! DisCharger68 sent me a link to some once, and people talked about how it can make you hallucinate...sounds very interesting if it's legal!!!!

[kn91m5]

Well it is legal where i live. I have looked into it over the last few years off and on,you can find everything you need to know on the net. I paid $ 10.00 for a 100ml bottle just to try it,well worth it. I only had about 1 oz with water and sugar and got pretty high for a few hours,be careful with this stuff i have never had anything drink wise lol quite like this,the one i bought is 110 proof and very smooth.

[PeepingScott]

LOL!! Is it a relaxing feeling? Does it make you mellow, or the opposite, in a fighting mood?
Did you wash it down with a drag of Salvia???

[kn91m5]

LOL!! Is it a relaxing feeling? Does it make you mellow, or the opposite, in a fighting mood?
Did you wash it down with a drag of Salvia???

Yes mellow and alert,before i had a second sip i felt it coming on like a train a few years ago a Dr gave me some Dilaudid for pain i was having,that was the best feeling i have ever had and Absinthe is a close second. To be honest i can't believe this stuff is legal next time i will have twice the amount and keep you updated,you should look around your town for some,make sere it is made with wormwood or it won't be the real deal. No way on the Salvia,nothing real in there.

[bobbyj59]

I've been meaning to try it ever since hearing it was the drink of choice for Vincent Van Gogh. It was said that his paintings were how he saw the world after drinking Absinthe.

Here's a link to a review of 20 different brands of the drink form the NY Times; LINK

Bob Jordan

[PeepingScott]

Tonight's the night...

[Sizzlerking]

Yeah, been meaning to try some of that as well. OK Peeping Scott, I want a report . . .

- SK

[LAWDOG]

Anybody here drink Antifreez ? i picked up a bottle the other day very interesting.



What's wrong with USA absinthe?
Essentially, it's not the real deal. The difference between USA-style absinthe and the genuine European stuff is like the difference between an instant decaf and a cup of freshly ground Jamaican Blue Mountain: the first is merely a hopeful approximation of the second.

I don't wish to single out Lucid as there are now other brands of "absinthe" available in America. But Lucid was the first, and it is a very fitting example of just about everything that's wrong with absinthe in the USA.

As per outdated TTB/FDA regulations, all USA-approved absinthe must test thujone-free. For those of you who don't know, thujone to absinthe is what caffeine is to coffee: it's what gives it its "buzz". It's the substance that pretty much defines absinthe as a drink, the substance that sets it apart from any other alcoholic beverage ever made.

The nonsensical FDA regulations present a serious obstacle for any absinthe distiller wishing to enter the American market. The choice: either rape the very soul of the Green Fairy and deliver an absinthe-like abomination, or keep out of the USA.

As a result, the American consumer is left with watered-down off-brands made solely for the USA. Lucid isn't sold in Europe at all (nobody would buy it over there), and the USA version of Kubler is not the same Kubler that's available in Switzerland, to give two examples.

As a result, many European distillers that have been making the real stuff for generations will not make it to America's bars and stores anytime soon.

As a result, don't expect to dance with the Green Fairy.

Absinthe without thujone the buzz
The problem with making thujone-free "absinthe" is that thujone is the natural essential oil of Artemisia absinthium, a wild plant better known as grande wormwood. Of course, wormwood is the primary ingredient in absinthe: absinthe without wormwood is like turkey stuffing without sage. Interestingly, sage contains thujone as well, but is not banned by the FDA.

So why does wormwood get singled out? Because the FDA is a slow-moving bureaucracy and their outdated regulations go back to the absinthe witchhunts of 1912. To put it plainly, it's not about food safety at all, it's about bone-idleness and unwillingness to move with the times. It is highly hypocritical, too, because the word is that—in order to meet the FDA requirements—USA absinthe brands have had to resort to using genetically modified version of Artemisia. Yes, you heard right: genetically modified. Am I to really believe that's safer than a little Mother Nature's buzz? I don't think so.