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Mckree  13171 posts
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That's from...Switzerland. Switzerland. The land of heavily armed, sexually deviant, drugged-up Xenophobes.

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I'm talking about absinthe.

All the legends are true, it does screw with your head, and gives you a headache the morning after, i've tried.

anyone had some interesting experience with absinthe and wants to share?


I bought some on holiday in Gran Canaria in August.
Large bottle, 70%, cost me €8.
Crazy shit, but I for one can't drink more than 2 shots straight. Have to mix it with something else to take away the sting and the sick feeling.

 

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8 euros O_O

was that the real kind with wormwood and all? or just lots of alcohol?

 

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Are there any other psychoactive elements present in Absinthe ?
Anise is another one of the main herbs used in making legitimate Absinthe. It is not toxic, however a strong dose induces drunkenness, trembling, epileptic convulsions, muscle spasms, analgesia and sleep, just like opium.
Fennel, as has anise seed, fennel seed has a potentially psychoactive anethole.
Hyssop, in progressive doses, is believed to have a convulsive property.
Angelica root is grown as a drug in Lapland.
Coriander is mentioned as an aphrodisiac in the Arabic One Thousand and One Nights, and is said, in the same text, to conjure up the Devil when used in combination with fennel.
Calamis contains psychoactive asarones, used as an inebriant by Native Americans.
So we are left wondering if Absinthe, or rather wormwood and its essence thujone in Absinthe, is to blame for its effects.


Wow. Now to find $209...

 


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I doubt it for 8 euros. grin

But it's very strong.

 

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So it's green booze, basically.

 

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I don't think I want to buy from farmers. As far as my experience goes (and it goes far enough, I was born in russia, where women used to put liquer on ther nipples when babies refused to breastfeed- true story! no kidding... it worked for me) alcohaul can be distilled from practically anything including tree trunks, potatoes, turds or even an ocassional dead animal.
Since Absinthe is basically a herbal concoction, but having the fact that nowadays it's mainly without any thojun at all, I'd say it's just godsawfully alcohaulic.
Hence, it can be distilled from dead rat.
which is actually the main export for some eastern countries. that and women. and mud.

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more than two shots anyhow is a very big mistake, unless you want to woddle about in your own vomit for the rest of the evening.

MIXING IS VERY BAD!!!!
NEVER MIX ABSINTHE WITH ANYTHING, BE IT REAL OR FAKE!!
with the exception of Nana leaves, and actually, puttinga tea bag into it makes for a great taste!

but most anything else actuallly ruins the flavour (which is horrible anyway) but believe me it can get even worse.
oh, and it'll make you vomit twice your own body weight.

 

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This 'dead rat booze' idea intrigues me and I wish to learn more.

 

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My local pub sells Absinthe. I even got to take the empty bottle home as a souvenir.

I actually had no idea it was so hard to get, though the barman did say something about anything over 70% being illegal to sell.

Oh, and it's 3 GBP a shot, but we got it for 1.50 for some reason.

And I'm not even 18. grin

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Yay! Member login.

 

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So as a microbioligist with friends of a technical bent, we have experimented some with home alcohol production. We do homebrewing a fair bit (or used to) and produced some very fine beers. Need to do more of that. We also constructed a device for the purification of spirits. I must try to phrase this vaguely because it is technically illegal. Distillation laws are stupid. You can ferment your own alcohol, you can distill alcohol from commercially purchased fermentations, but it is illegal to distill your own fermentation. Yeah, that make sense.

Anyways, we have experimented with the distillation process. We managed to produce some whiskey that just doesn't seem to age well, gallons of the strongest, most juniper-vile gin you could possibly imagine, and a high quality straight up shine. Some acquaintences decided to try to make absinthe, replete with wormwood. They have tried several times, and while it is pretty good absinthe, full licorice flavor and all, as far as I can tell it has no hallucinogenic properties. And they have thoroughly tested it. So really, they just made a ton of very strong booze that will fuck you up pretty fast, but not make you trip.

They consider this a failure. I'm not quite sure why.

 

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from whatever I remember from chemistry lessons (which I last took about 5 years ago)- the process of turning stuff into, well, booze is called, well I don't know how it's called in english damn it.

anyhow, the trick is to take your recently deceaced animal (honestly, I'm not perfectly sure you should do that, you know what?- use BARK, or lettuce, or turnips- should result in something with less of a, shall we say, side flavour)
what you do next is place it in bottle filled with a whole glass of sugar, about two till three spoons of 100% Alcohol and fill the rest with water and the pre-chosen leit motif (could be rat. COULD, not SHOULD).

next, you should buy a valve cork which only enables air to exit the sealed bottle- I think that every hardware shop has valves, you just need to tinker with it for a while to make it fit the bottle perfectly.
VERY IMPORTANT- seal the bottle as best as you can so to prevent air coming INTO the bottle.
than, you wait anything from several months (wierd-tasting wine) till several years which will yield you something that is much like scotch. but sort of not.

takes a lot of time, but the pride and joy you feel after brewing your own stock of rat malt.
enjoy.

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great gods, man!
85% alcohol?!!?!?

the ones I tasted were alchoaulic, but that thing must've been distilled from the souls of the damned or something...

highest I saw was 78%
and that alone can be used to tranquilize cattle.

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they lacked thojun.

thojun is as ilegeal as heroine, but unlike the later, it's horribly rare to get.

 

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