Absinthe
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From what I read, it was banned from the US because back in the day some guy killed a few people while drunk on absinthe and said that he was hallucinating (sp) and something told him to do it. The US, being as dumb as it is, took no chances and banned the product despite the simple fact that he was a drunk fool.
Glad to hear its legal again.
Glad to hear its legal again.
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I had a bottle of Lucid and enjoyed it. It was a different taste, the anise and fennel came through strongly. I enjoyed it mixed 2 parts cold water to one part absinthe, no sugar as it was quite sweet already. You could not tell that it was 62% alcohol from the taste as it was quite smooth and drinkable.
That said, I probably would not buy it again unless the price dropped to the 30 dollar range.
That said, I probably would not buy it again unless the price dropped to the 30 dollar range.
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From: Chicago
Originally Posted by JustAyoungMC,Jan 19 2008, 05:24 PM
That said, I probably would not buy it again unless the price dropped to the 30 dollar range.
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I went to Europe over the summer and brought some back (I guess customs was too busy searching for lotion bottles that were more than 3oz). I prepared it properly and everything. No hallucinations or any bullshit like that, but I did get VERY ****ed up.
The thing is, mixing it with water is what makes it "strong" or whatever. I've had shots of absinthe before and they didn't do much. However, after a few glasses of this stuff prepared right, I was completely trashed.
Don't even ask about the morning after... What I usually do to flush alcohol out of my system after a night of heavy drinking is drink a lot of water. Doesn't help much when that's what actually makes it strong... Every time I had water I felt drunk again.
The thing is, mixing it with water is what makes it "strong" or whatever. I've had shots of absinthe before and they didn't do much. However, after a few glasses of this stuff prepared right, I was completely trashed.
Don't even ask about the morning after... What I usually do to flush alcohol out of my system after a night of heavy drinking is drink a lot of water. Doesn't help much when that's what actually makes it strong... Every time I had water I felt drunk again.
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btw, the incorrect way to consume absinthe is to light it up/light up the sugar. No flame is supposed to be introduced into the equation of preparing the drink, this was something that begun recently after a few nightclubs began preparing it like that. It just kinda spread...
The proper way to prepare it is to get one of those special spoons, place the sugar on top and let a water dropper (custom made for absinthe tasting if possible) slowly dissolve the sugar (half cube to a full cube) into the absinthe. Water to absinthe ratio in the end should be controlled as well (roughly 20-33% of the end mixture should be the absinthe).
The proper way to prepare it is to get one of those special spoons, place the sugar on top and let a water dropper (custom made for absinthe tasting if possible) slowly dissolve the sugar (half cube to a full cube) into the absinthe. Water to absinthe ratio in the end should be controlled as well (roughly 20-33% of the end mixture should be the absinthe).
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From: Chicago
Originally Posted by Shinigami,Jan 20 2008, 08:51 AM
btw, the incorrect way to consume absinthe is to light it up/light up the sugar. No flame is supposed to be introduced into the equation of preparing the drink, this was something that begun recently after a few nightclubs began preparing it like that. It just kinda spread...
also, you can tell when you've added enough water because the absinthe will clearly go from light, transparent green to very cloudy green. just my experience though, definitely coulda been the wrong way to do it but it was pretty interesting!
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From: Renton, WA
Originally Posted by Shinigami,Jan 20 2008, 05:51 AM
The proper way to prepare it is to get one of those special spoons, place the sugar on top and let a water dropper (custom made for absinthe tasting if possible) slowly dissolve the sugar (half cube to a full cube) into the absinthe. Water to absinthe ratio in the end should be controlled as well (roughly 20-33% of the end mixture should be the absinthe).
We got some up in Canada while we were up there for a car show. We brought some back down with us. Later, on the 4th of July, a friend had heard we got it and wanted to try it. So he went in and poured a glass. Like...a pounder size glass. haha. He came out of the house and was sipping it and said...man this stuff tastes like crap.
So we told him how to actually mix it. But I think he was already drunk from other stuff...because he went inside and came back about 5 minutes later. In the same glass...it was about half full of sugar, and the rest was absinthe. haha.
Of course, the mean people that we are (and we didn't want it to be wasted) we told him that was right...and watched him drink the rest of it. So gross. haha.
As for absinthe itself...I didn't really care for it. It is a different kind of drunk, but it isn't my drink of choice
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the few times i have brought back absinthe from europe the stuff has been more a attack of high alcohol content than a different 'style' of drunkedness! I look at it as a 151 type of drink with very high alcohol content compared to a van Gogh cut an ear off type of drink! It definitely did the business in short order though 