I got a bud who has some he wants to sell me but the price is steep. So have any of you tried it? and if so is it worth it?
I took two bottles with me to Bonnaroo and was selling shots for $5... I was doing well, and then a kid came up and offered me $80 for a bottle. I ended up making about $120, and I only paid $18 per bottle. Not a bad profit!!
Well up here in Canada a 2 6 of it is 65$.. but its pritty good.. it tastes like shit.. but its good stuff. But watch out there is ABSINTH and there is ABSINTHE... 2 different, yet simmilar drinks.. the one with the E on the end is better.... but still in North america.. the shit sucks.. you don't halucinate like you would drinkng the european Stuff.
Care to elaborate, IronGoth? I haven't seen any articles related to the issue of thujone specifically being neurotoxic...
But what WAS the reason? "Absinthe rose to popularity in the mid 19th century only after the decades long phylloxera blight of the vineyards caused the price of wine to soar and its availability to plummet. By the late 1800s, La FŽee Verte - the Green Fairy as absinthe was nicknamed - was being consumed with such fervour by the Parisian artistic and literary set (and nearly everyone else) that the cocktail hour was renamed L'Heure Verte." (further in the article) "The advent of the prohibition and Christian-temperance movements coincided with the success of the vintners in reconstituting their industry with New World cuttings immune to the insect blight. The vintners next urgently sought a way to recover their millions of customers and woo them from the Fairy's embrace. They joined forces with the anti-alcohol movements, who had arisen in response to the "Great Binge" of the Belle Epoch. Pamphleteers (notably Zola) and journalists were enlisted or employed; politicians and legislators cajoled or suborned. A massive anti-absinthe campaign in the press along with some lurid murder cases -- conveniently but unconvincingly laid at the Fairy's door -- led to the domino effect of European bans between 1910 (Switzerland) and 1915 (France). But were wormwood and its active agent, a-thujone, such menaces? A.absinthium has been used for millenia as a vermifuge and digestif tonic. And contrary to general opinion, a-thujone does not only occur in wormwood. It is a major component of the essential oils of such homely culinary herbs as sage, tansy, and tarragon. No one seems to be having neurotoxic problems from eating these commonplace spices. Absinthe was never banned in Spain, Portugal and a few other European countries, and its production and consumption in those places never ceased. In Switzerland's francophone Jura region bootleg absinthe called La Bleue has been produced clandestinely ever since 1910; estimates put its bootleggers at about 130, making more than 50,000 liters a year, little of which ever leaves Switzerland. Yet the folks in Neuchatel seem no worse for the wear." From this site. And thujone does effect certain brain receptors. However "Old absinthe contained about 260 parts per million of alpha-thujone, says Arnold. "Present-day absinthe generally has less than 10 parts per million," he says, which is below the maximum concentration permitted by European beverage guidelines. In today's absinthe, "the most toxic compound is the alcohol," quips Arnold." From this site. Thus, it is not the horror it is portrayed to be, nor is it completely benign. Just do some research, find the good stuff, be prepared to pay the premium, and exercise some judgement. And enjoy!
The good stuff costs about $85 CDN here. In Spain, my GF could buy the same for $20 CDN. An excellent drink. Doesn't make you hallucinate, even though wormwood is an hallucinagen, but gets you pretty drunk (70%) with an added surrealness to the drunk state. Good for a jump start of the night if you take a shot. I wouldn't recommend any moer than 3 shots or drinks, cause it's powerful. It's classically watered down, served with ice and carmelized sugar. Bitter at first, but the taste grows easily on you. LOVE IT!
it tastes like paintstripper mixed with listerine... but it gets ypu quite smashed. My advice, dont set it on fire to make a green fairy, you'll reduce the alcohol content
cant i have absinthe neat from the bottle...do i have to use this sweetener thing always...i mean i buy the bottle...take a shot class...pour it in..and have it like a shot..is this not possible?
No, it's disgusting. Pour a measure(1-2 oz) of absinthe into a glass, like a wine glass for starters. Slowly drip ice water (3-6 oz) onto the absinthe. If it's bad absinthe, ie Czech, go ahead and throw it down the sink. If it's decent, ie drinkable, you may chose to disolve a little sugar into it. http://www.feeverte.net/
I've had it, it tasted bitter and didn't do anything for me other types of alcohol don't already do... I drank allot of it. On the other hand, it really knocked my girlfriend about. I'm planning on getting some of the more expensive stuff labelled "Maximum Thujone" to see if that works. If you want strong alcohol try and find 'Spiritus' from Poland. You can get it in Australia at some bottle shops (I think it's actually illegal). "*** ******'*" bottle shops were selling it for awhile. It has a 95% alcohol volume and if you try to shoot it you can feel it evaporating off your tongue Note# Edited 29/6/06 to protect the guilty
Legal in Australia? Not in NSW. I was traveling with some lads, and we were surprised to find some in a South African bottle shop (don't know if it had the E or not) and we bought some on impulse cause none of us had ever drank this. Well, we got good and drunk and nearly arrested when the cops saw us lighting shit on fire. (fortunately by this time, we had finished and thrown away the bottle, but we were obviously visually drunk. By the grace of God, we didn't get arrested.) But it wasn't anything the bottle of Whiskey we had drunk the night before didn't do. Good night tho.
Thanks for confirming its illegality. I bought absinth and the other stuff in NSW... I might just edit my previous post to remove the name of the bottle shop.
i got fucked up i bought a bottle 55% alchohol but i hardly got drunk halucanatiosn were far far from me i pay 4 it like 12$
thujone is good for ya.why would they have wormwood (artemisia ABSINTHIUM) tea if it wasn't?.check out psychedelics/drinks forums,there are some topics on absinth.the e in the end is just a linguistic thing.it doesn't make any difference.
Ridiculous. Thujone is not water soluble, therefore the tea made from wormwood contains only trace amounts of thujone. Thujone is NOT "good for ya". "why would they have wormwood (artemisia ABSINTHIUM) tea if it wasn't?" Watch what you ingest, do a little research and use some logic-just because "they" make something, doesn't mean that it's good for you in any way. Actually, using a rather broad brush here, the absence of the -e in "absinthe" usualy does denote a gimmicky product. Mostly, once again, Czech swill. Again, there are, I'm sure a couple of exceptions, but none come to mind.
