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Absinthe

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Has anyone out there tried absinthe before? I have read a bunch of stuff but none of it seems to tell you how much you need to drink to feel a decent effect. A friend and I are thinking of trying it but don't want to go drinking too much of it and really spinning ourselves out. Any advice appreciated :)
Thanks
 
DONT go drinking absinthe to try and have a "trippy" experience. the amount you have to drink to feel the effects of the weakly psychotropic herbs is enough to get you very, very drunk and you will most likely throw up before aanything exciting will happen. you will get a trippier effect from having a toke on a joint after drinking some jagermeister.
IMO it's ok to drink if you like that aniseedy taste, and it has a great bit of ceremony when you do it properly with the sugar and all, but it is not something i'd go to for a drug experience.
 
I'd imagine you'd be making wormwood concotions yourself? In any case whatever the method may be, check out the Erowid vault on Absinthe .
Probably best to make yourself a tea from wormwood rather than drink copious amounts of liquor and pickle yourself.
Reading the trip reports will give you a good indiciation of the best methods to administer/dosages to take.
[ 13 April 2002: Message edited by: ruski ]
 
I tried it about 2 months ago.
Some wormwood I ordered over the net, soaked in a bottle of Pernod for a week, &drained.
I could only drink a little of it - fuk'n bitter as hell - you think chewing biccies is bad, this is 10 times more bitter. I still don't know what the feelings are like but I still have a wasted bottle of Pernod here. Oh well, good luck anyway.
 
You can now buy Absinthe in bars around melbourne, and can also order it from the net.
It gained so much renewed interest from Moulin Rouge that smart marketers obviously saw a market for it... only one problem... it was illegal.
Solution: Take most of the wormwood out. So if you're trying to achieve the psychedelic properties from Absinthe ordered from the net or bought around australia, as jb said, you wont have much luck, and you'll be far too pissed to notice any effects anyway :)
hope i've helped
 
Mr. Horse how do I get the wormwood out, I've already drained & strained the liquid. The bitterness has already leached into the Pernod. The liquid is now a browny-green colour.
I just had a taste then, it's even more bitter than I remembered. I diluted 15 ml to ten parts pepsi - still bitter.
It was about an ounce (28 gm) of wormwood which I ordered online and I soaked it in the Pernod for two weeks. However the mixture is now 6 weeks old, it shouldn't go off should it ??
If I wanted to feel the high of this absynthe, how much should I drink & what can I do about the bitterness.
[ 14 April 2002: Message edited by: Fry-d- ]
[ 15 April 2002: Message edited by: BigTrancer ]
 
I was lucky enough to try it when i was overseas during these christmas holidays. I had it while in the Czech republic. Now my drinks were mixed for me, but i do remember the bar tender poured the amount of a shot in the bottom of a glass, then held a small sieve full of sugar over the glass and poured either cold water or lemonade through the sieve. This should account for the bitter taste some what.
I also remember that the hangover was more like a stoned feeling than anything else.
And the law on Absinthe in the uk was dated till around 1970's (if i remember correctly). Someone found out and started selling it again.
Quote on the history from quick google search...
The "green hour" became a daily event at many Parisian clubs and cafes, and was immortalized in paintings such as Edward Manet's, The Absinthe Drinker (l859), L'Absinthe(l876), by Edgar Degas, and by Picasso in his (l901) Absinthe Drinker. Still more artists not only depicted the concoction, but wrote about it, and were to varying degrees dedicated to it, or held in it's thrall; the likes of Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Appolinaire, and the surrealist playwright Alfred Jarry, who used it to provide himself with a reliable source of irrational, if not outright hallucinogenic images.
 
I was also in czech republic last year and gave it a go. Most places just sell the fluro green "hills" brand which has little or no Thujone (though at 70% it scarcely matters). Some bars actually advertise thier Absinthe to have "special extra extra thujone", it has less alcohol (60%).
It was served with a small amount of brown sugar mixed in on a big table spoon, set alight untill the sugar liquified and dropped burning into a shot in a wide glass. You needed to quickly extinguish the flame with your hand before the glass heats up too much. It tastes like a warm combination of mouthwash and aviation fuel.
I drank four shots one night and was promptly arrested for fighting.
[ 15 April 2002: Message edited by: BigTrancer ]
 
Heh. Say Yay for Hollywood. I was waiting at a tram stop the other day and I overheard a woman say to her friend as we were getting on;
"Oh, I am so pleased! The other day I went and bought 3 bottles of Absinthe."
I cracked up laughing at the joy of hearing this whitebred, middle class, 30 something, socialite from the high brow melbourne cultural circles(or so this is what I percieved from observing her a good few minutes)proclaim her pleasure at having purchased a once illegal drug!
Maybe one day it'll be;
"Man, I'm so stoked - I just bought an ounce of weed from Coles!"
 
in the epicure section of "the age", where they do the wine write ups every week, a few weeks back they did a report on the absynth that is being sold here, and essentially said that you're wasting your time unless you want to get pissed.
could go along way towards explaining mona's experience!
I cracked up laughing at the joy of hearing this whitebred, middle class, 30 something, socialite from the high brow melbourne cultural circles(or so this is what I percieved from observing her a good few minutes)proclaim her pleasure at having purchased a once illegal drug!
just a note on this... the "middle class, 30 something socialites..." are the private school kids of yesteryear. they were the kids with unlimited funds to go exploring and experimenting, so wouldn't be so surprised to find they're excited that they now think they can get something legally which used to be illegal! ;)
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