Absinthe

[restin]

Hey,does anyone have experience with Absinthe?

 

[psm]

can be some mean ugly shit.

never trust the green fairy. she sent more man into madness then any other bitch

can be an interesting experience but it makes you so depressive, you wanna cut an ear off.

 

[GOD]

It doesnt do anything to you . Its the alcohol not the Thujon , as proved in recent scientific tests . There is a thread about it here that i posted recently .

 

[restin]

I've heard of it, too. Dunno if it is true,gonna try it out.

But my post wasn't about that.

I bought some "Tabu Absinth", so it is called, and I am not sure, if it is "real" absinthe. Because 1) it contains colorizers 2) when I do the ritual, it isn't completely white and 3) I am not sure about the regulations. Is there Thujol now or is it less resp. is it still "true" absinthe.

 

[GOD]

Its illegal to make , sell or buy absinth with a thujon content high enough for the thujon to have any theoretical effect . The products available just have it in quantitys that effect the taste . And it doesnt work anyway . I think the thread about its ineffectiveness is in the german section .

 

[Razor29]

its BS! its called shiba here and is grown wildely i know meny people who make it from old family recipes and it does nothing

absinthium

i had it with no alcohol(and sometimes with alcohol depending on the recipe) just a ton of the plant "Artemisia absinthium" cooked in to diffrent kinds of tea and drinks and very potent tea mind u and it did nothing

 

[BrainEater]

i drank absinth many times... it's really good stuff!! however you have to be careful with it, because if you drink too much then it's over for you...
if you have really good absinth and drink more than one glass you will probably be so drunk, that in the next hours you won't have the problem of boredom.
aditionally if the absinth has thujon in it, then you might find yourself even closer to the edge of drunkenness.... the best thing about absinth is that it tastes so nice, if you use the sugar-drinking-method.


peace :weedman:

 

[st.bot.32]

agreed, having tried it a few times, it is really the alcohol that does the trick. going from 120-160 proof it gets absorbed by the body so quickly, that is probably mainly why it "feels different" than your standard drink.

o.t. i've heard of peopel just buying high percentage alcohol and adding wormwood to it to make their own absinthe (which is totally not how real absinthe is made) and fucking themselves up because wormwood is toxic.

 

[druglessdouglas]

asynthe makes the heart grow fonder. never tried the real thing but the commercial stuff is better than pernod. ive been tempted to soak some wormwood in a bottle of commercial absynthe but im a bit scared ill break my brain

jager meister(dont know if thats correct- master hunter) is more psychoactive IMO

 

[Meduzz]

I've drunk absinth a lot. It just makes me drunk with a very interesting placebo touch to it. I tend to explore the drunkness more than with beers or other alcoholic drinks, searching for differences, resulting in a more active and fun type of drunk.

Placebo effect is also effect

 

[druglessdouglas]

placebo = i please.

 

[psm]

Its illegal to make , sell or buy absinth with a thujon content high enough for the thujon to have any theoretical effect

depends on the country. and there is a village in france, where they never stopped doing it the old traditional way. lifespan-average is very low there...

 

[Meduzz]

doing it the old traditional way. lifespan-average is very low there...

Must be the copper sulphate... :roll:
They used to use it for the color.

 

[restin]

Its illegal to make , sell or buy absinth with a thujon content high enough for the thujon to have any theoretical effect .

The teoretical effect is the not real hallucination?

jager meister(dont know if thats correct- master hunter) is more psychoactive IMO

really? why? (it is spelled Jägermeister)

agreed, having tried it a few times, it is really the alcohol that does the trick. going from 120-160 proof it gets absorbed by the body so quickly, that is probably mainly why it "feels different" than your standard drink.

Placebo or not, many people were inspired by this beverage.

I usually feel bad when I drink vodka and other high-percentages, it is different with absinthe...

ever tried the real thing but the commercial stuff is better than pernod.

I wonder what makes the difference. The Thujon? I once had "real" absinth from czech republic and it was really really good. The commercial I have at home feels...different. I don't like it that much...

 

[st.bot.32]

i tried a couple different kinds of "real" absinthe recently and felt quite lucid.. then i found out it was incredibly low in thujone so i'm not convinced it wasn't placebo/strong alcohol rush, or perhaps a combination of the above, or maybe other herbs in the mix give it a more pleasant feeling. as for inspiring artists, for sure, but also absinthe was a perfect combo for starving artists: incredibly cheap and the strongest drink out there.. (not to mention alcohol and getting smashed in general has long been a staple for many artists)

Actually, if you're referring to Hills (if not, sorry, never mind ), that isn't traditional absinthe, doesn't even louche.. real absinthe is distilled with wormwood, hills just adds extracts to the alcohol.. for a long time hills was available here in Canada just because it had almost zero thujone

i would love to try a stronger (higher thujone) absinthe to find out for myself what the effects really are.. though I've heard it said tolerance builds up ridiculously quickly

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thujone

 

[tryptonaut]

Real absinthe back in the 1900's never had a higher thujone content than real absinthe today. That was propaganda bullshit by the wine-industry who saw their profits in danger.

There were some really dangerous cheap "absinthe" copies back then, which contained copper salts to produce the louche effect and green color. If you drank that shit because you were poor, then of course you became mad and sick.

Real, good absinthe, like Berger, Pernod, Oxygenee and others were very popular, well tasting herbal liquors and no one was ever "tripping" from them.
There is some very subtle nice effect to absinthe other than only the alcohol - I think it leaves you slightly more clearheaded than other liquors. However if you drink more, then this subtle feeling is just washed away by the alcohol and you get drunk just like from vodka or cuba libres

If you want to drink good absinthe, get a real one (that is: distilled from real herbs, not mixed from oils like the Tabu someone mentioned).
There are two basic kinds: Green absinthe, colored with herbs after distillation, these taste a little more bitter and herbal, and white "La Bleue", mainly from Switzerland where bootleggers have always distilled Absinthe - only they left away the coloring step so their absinthe looked like clear liquor. It's called La Bleue ("the blue") because it louches to a milky-white-blueish color when you add the water.

Check out these absinthes (I ordered there once in a while, it's the only shop I know that carries so many real absinthes) http://www.absinthe.de/en/shop/authentic-absinthe/
these are all authentic, distilled absinthes. They are all extremely expensive, because these are hand-crafted distillates with small batches - that just doesn't come cheap.

Oh, by the way, I almost forgot: Do not burn the sugar! No one in France or Switzerland ever burned the sugar on their absinthe glasses, the burning was invented by some Czech absinthe makers in the 90's or so to make the "ritual" more interesting (and probably also to cover up the bad taste of their brew).

I was once drinking La Bleue with a distiller in Boveresse (Val de Travers, Switzerland). He had really nice bistro glasses, he poured the absinthe, then took the glasses, filled them up with water right from the tap, and gave them to us. He saw we were all a little shocked - no ritual, no spoon. He told us that his absinthe was sweet enough so it didn't need sugar, so no spoon - and so his ritual is just to fill the fucking glass with water, from the tap!

 

[GOD]

"jager meister(dont know if thats correct- master hunter) is more psychoactive IMO

really? why? (it is spelled Jägermeister)"

Jaegermeister has been a fashion drink at partys for a few years because people thought that it helped you to relax when you had taken coke , speed and x . It has the reputation that it contains a herb extract that inh high doses has a psychoactive effect . 20 years ago and more it had a very bad reputation and the main consumer group were the tramps and hard core alcoholics that sat in large groups infront of most railway stations here . Many of them were mentaly confused and that was atributed to the effects of drinking to much jaegermeister and the herb extract it contains .

 

[druglessdouglas]

that will be why i like it then

 

[restin]

Pernod,

??

Is Pernod not Pastis? I have Pernod at home...Isn't it Pastis? Or do you mean that it was absinthe before the prohibition?

that is: distilled from real herbs, not mixed from oils like the Tabu someone mentioned

That was me...dammit.

EDIT:

Absinthe with THC (mixed)-

Modern synthesised- bullshit or good stuff?

 

[GOD]

Pernod is not absinthe its anis .