Absinthe

**Ronin** · 05-01-2007, 22:29

modern absinthe is just alcohol....and it is sold over here....I don´t drink personally but friends of mine that have had the stuff describe it as nothing more than a pretty stiff drink.

in the old days apparently it did have hallucinogenic substances in it.....need proof? read some of Fernando Pessoa´s poetry

the guy used to get plastered on the stuff for what is known.

**Uesugi Kenshin** · 05-02-2007, 12:27

Here in Germany I've only seen it in 66% or 80% but I've never tried it. I'm fairly sure I wouldn't touch the 80% alcohol version though. For me the 62% alcohol whiskey we drank one night was strong enough.

**Mikeus Caesar** · 05-02-2007, 16:36

I once drank the 80% kind of absinthe.

Let's just say i couldn't remember much the next morning.

**The Stranger** · 05-04-2007, 03:13

drank that too... its tastes like liquer... the candy one... drop in dutch... but anyways i thought it was disgusting... but my friend liked it and drank a bottle of it... a small one... she woke up in the middle of the night and claimed she heard churchbells ringing... and i was like... churchbells? in the middle of ****** Athens? I hear cars and other stuff... but Bells?

**macsen rufus** · 05-04-2007, 13:52

It was outlawed for a very long while in most of Europe, and traditionally had a mix of herbs thrown in, including wormwood which I believe was the source of the thujone. Modern absinthe has little of the added stuff, but is a very potent spirit nonetheless. Very weird drink, the alcohol content is so high it tends to evaporate in your mouth before you can swallow it, and it gives a very strange sensation of warmth

Czech and French absinthes are the two main varieties available, and I believe it's been re-legalised in the UK (so long as it doesn't have all the herby bits in it). Definitely worth trying, but don't faff around with the half-assed low alcohol varieties

A piece of advice though: don't drink if you hope to get lucky that night.... It won't happen.

Funny, I heard that "Absinthe makes the parts grow stronger"