fiddy

k, so i guess i was right and this is the same drink. i really wanna give it a shot, im thinking of grabbing a plane ticket and flying up to his school and drinkin a few nights with him

fucking a...

I just woke up after passing out from this shit.. damn my monkey girlfriend wasn;t impressed :thumbsup

its illegal here in the states but that never stopped me! :winkwink:

Lee is right about the colour, incidently.
Yes, the stereotypical image of absynth is a potent green, but the real shit is a blue/green thing. It's like a light aquamarine.

http://kaykays.com/personal/images/PICT0470.jpg
is getting close, but not entirely there.

it's not an arguement of the "real " stuff being green or blue. The basic difference is that the blue stuff is the high end type. There is a woman I know that goes to Europe several times a year just to get absinte and bring it back. She knows a ton about the stuff and has even written a book on it. She told me that the difference ( between the colors ) is the stuff that is used to make it and the way it is made.

For example. Bad vodka is made with grain and is not filtered that much. Good vodka is made with potatos and is filtered a lot. there is a huge difference between them, but they are still both vodkas.

Green absinthe is made with the certian rough herbs and not filtered much ( hence the green color ) if you add water or sugar and water it will louche, or turn a more cloudy off white and greenish yellow color. When made it is a light green color that is almost olive drab and sometimes still has the herbs in the bottom of the bottle.

blue absinthe uses slightly different, more refined herbs and is more heavily filtered which gives it a the more blueish color.

there are other colors as well. The spanish absinthes tend to be more red and brown and there are even some eastern european absinthes that are yellow in color.

they are all absinthes, just different types of absinthes. Look at rum. How many different colors or rum are there when you look close? there are many shades but they are all still rum.

the ones that are bright green ( or bright blue, yellow, red etc.) have had color added to them to make them more appealing to the eye though but that didn't happen until the mid 1850's when it was begining to be mass produced because of a french grape shortage that caused wine prices to skyrocket and the people were looking for something to replace it with.

just my 2 cents on the subject

yep this is the stuff. Wormwood basically has a similar effect as the THC that is in pot. But since it is drank and not smoked you get 100% of it. If you smoke a joint you will get some of the effect from that joint but if you drink a glass of this you will get 100% of the effect of it so it is much more portent ( in large quantities ) than pot is.

Also the reason it was outlawed in many european countries is that, supposedly, if you drink it and then take any type of opium based drug like morphine, heroin etc, it makes the high much more potent so many cities were seeing alot of people go from being just drinkers to being drinkers and junkheads.

Who cares about the color, that shit is still not good.

But I do like the stuff we have here in Sweden that is made from just Wormwood. Tastes heck of a lot better :glugglug

that's true, no matter the color, to me it still tastes like really nasty medicine.

:thumbsup

I don't drink, but i thought i'd have a sip of absinthe jsut to see what it was like.
did the whole brandy bown sugar added and melted inside the drink thing.. it feels like you're drinking it before it even touches your lips as the heavy fumes roll out of the ball into your mouth.

crazy.