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Posted: 10/3/2011 6:58:52 PM EDT
[#1]
Tried it once. Tasted like shit. Spent the night puking black shit into and around the toilet. I didn't eat or drink anything black.
ETA - This was US "Absinthe" at a bar in Florida. |
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Posted: 10/3/2011 6:59:34 PM EDT
[#2]
I like it. Give it a try
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Posted: 10/3/2011 6:59:34 PM EDT
[#3]
Quoted: Tried it once. Tasted like shit. Spent the night puking black shit into and around the toilet. I didn't eat or drink anything black. Ewwwwww. That is one major vote for NO. |
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Posted: 10/3/2011 6:59:35 PM EDT
[#4]
I desire more info on the Green Fairy as well.
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Posted: 10/3/2011 7:00:12 PM EDT
[#5]
I don't care for it. It always jacks up my taste buds for a couple of days.
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Posted: 10/3/2011 7:00:54 PM EDT
[#6]
I drank it and vomited it up. No plans to drink it again.
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Posted: 10/3/2011 7:01:22 PM EDT
[#7]
The stuff bought in the states isn't real absinthe, its made without wormwood. The wormwood is what gives you the weird feeling and it is illegal in the states.
Anybody that tells you that they feel different than just drunk off of absinthe bought at a store is a fucking poser. |
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Posted: 10/3/2011 7:01:51 PM EDT
[#8]
I've tried it and it tastes like shit. However, it does need to be prepared properly. If you do decide to try it, research on the proper way to serve it.
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Posted: 10/3/2011 7:02:12 PM EDT
[#9]
over-rated and only slightly popular because it was restricted. Stick with the Scotch or Irish Whiskey.
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Posted: 10/3/2011 7:02:39 PM EDT
[#10]
I never saw the green fairy and I paid like $90 for the garbage from Czech Republic.
It tasted A.W.F.U.L. Probably what cat piss taste like... You can do a lot better for the money involved. Or just punch yourself in the nuts now... |
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Posted: 10/3/2011 7:03:35 PM EDT
[#11]
Quoted: The stuff bought in the states isn't real absinthe, its made without wormwood. The wormwood is what gives you the weird feeling and it is illegal in the states. Anybody that tells you that they feel different than just drunk off of absinthe bought at a store is a fucking poser. Well shit. So basically the U.S. stuff is just alcohol that apparently will make you up chuck black goo.  |
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Posted: 10/3/2011 7:04:05 PM EDT
[#12]
The worst tasting alcohol that I am familiar with. That's just an opinion though.
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Posted: 10/3/2011 7:04:35 PM EDT
[#13]
Quoted: The stuff bought in the states isn't real absinthe, its made without wormwood. The wormwood is what gives you the weird feeling and it is illegal in the states. Anybody that tells you that they feel different than just drunk off of absinthe bought at a store is a fucking poser. ETA: I drank mine in the Caribbean. I puked nonetheless. |
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Posted: 10/3/2011 7:05:07 PM EDT
[#14]
Quoted:
The stuff bought in the states isn't real absinthe, its made without wormwood. The wormwood is what gives you the weird feeling and it is illegal in the states. Anybody that tells you that they feel different than just drunk off of absinthe bought at a store is a fucking poser. Not anymore. You can get the real stuff now. |
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Posted: 10/3/2011 7:05:19 PM EDT
[#15]
What's with you light weights? Getting sick from a little absinthe. lol
I used to drink it all the time. For months it was the only thing I was drinking. It's pretty good. You pour a little water into it before you drink it. If you want to be fancier you can do the whole thing with the flaming sugar cube on a spoon and such. You can buy high wormwood absinthe online... it's legal. |
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Posted: 10/3/2011 7:05:40 PM EDT
[#16]
Isn't it spelled with a "Y"?
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Posted: 10/3/2011 7:06:18 PM EDT
[#17]
tastes like crap until you get used to it. a spoon of sugar and an equal part cold water make it slightly less crap tasting. you need at least 3 drinks to get a good buzz. it was/is the cleanest buzz i've ever had. 'clarity' is the work i use to describe it. go to drinkupny.com they have a good selection at good prices and ship to most states...
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Posted: 10/3/2011 7:06:26 PM EDT
[#18]
The real stuff is good. But most of the crap you see is the bright green crap like the Czech stuff.
It makes for a nice happy hour. If you decide to knock down an entire bottle, you will be in for a swirling hurricane of rampage. I have no regrets. |
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Posted: 10/3/2011 7:06:45 PM EDT
[#19]
funny...the wife has wanted to buy a bottle of this stuff for a while.
Maybe I shoudl forward her a link to this thread! 
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Posted: 10/3/2011 7:06:53 PM EDT
[#20]
Try some Green Chartreuse as well.
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Posted: 10/3/2011 7:07:56 PM EDT
[#21]
Quoted: What's with you light weights? Getting sick from a little absinthe. lol I used to drink it all the time. For months it was the only thing I was drinking. It's pretty good. You pour a little water into it before you drink it. If you want to be fancier you can do the whole thing with the flaming sugar cube on a spoon and such. You can buy high wormwood absinthe online... it's legal. okay, what is the good wormwood brand(s) of choice available in the US? |
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Posted: 10/3/2011 7:08:14 PM EDT
[#22]
Fuck this, I got a preban four loko keeping me company right now.
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Posted: 10/3/2011 7:08:34 PM EDT
[#23]
Quoted: The stuff bought in the states isn't real absinthe, its made without wormwood. The wormwood is what gives you the weird feeling and it is illegal in the states. Anybody that tells you that they feel different than just drunk off of absinthe bought at a store is a fucking poser. Last time I was at the ABC store(the week of Hurricane Isabel) They had small bottles(1.5 - 3oz) of "real" Absinthe. The label said it contained wormwood, but I wasn't about to drop $9 on the stuff. |
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Posted: 10/3/2011 7:08:38 PM EDT
[#24]
Back when I was in the dorms, we thought it would be badass to trip balls on Absinthe. Long story short we ended up just being disgusted by the taste and saved what was left of the bottle as an interesting novelty
 . I say don't fo. |
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Posted: 10/3/2011 7:09:22 PM EDT
[#25]
Tried it, and found it tasted like nyquil. It was disgusting and I did myself a favor and poured the rest of that shit out.
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Posted: 10/3/2011 7:10:01 PM EDT
[#26]
Quoted:
Quoted:
The stuff bought in the states isn't real absinthe, its made without wormwood. The wormwood is what gives you the weird feeling and it is illegal in the states. Anybody that tells you that they feel different than just drunk off of absinthe bought at a store is a fucking poser. Well shit. So basically the U.S. stuff is just alcohol that apparently will make you up chuck black goo.
Then there's the camp that says the wormwood doesn't actually do anything and it's the fact that absinth is like 180proof that causes all the "problems". Having had both types, I have never noticed a difference. Either way remember, you're drinking gasoline. |
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Posted: 10/3/2011 7:10:07 PM EDT
[#27]
Quoted: Quoted: The stuff bought in the states isn't real absinthe, its made without wormwood. The wormwood is what gives you the weird feeling and it is illegal in the states. Anybody that tells you that they feel different than just drunk off of absinthe bought at a store is a fucking poser. Not anymore. You can get the real stuff now. They filter the thujone out of it, which is what comes from the wormwood. |
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Posted: 10/3/2011 7:10:55 PM EDT
[#28]
Quoted: The stuff bought in the states isn't real absinthe, its made without wormwood. The wormwood is what gives you the weird feeling and it is illegal in the states. Anybody that tells you that they feel different than just drunk off of absinthe bought at a store is a fucking poser. AGNSTA. Tests have been done on surviving examples of Absinthe from before it was banned, and the wormwood levels were not toxic. You'd die of alcohol poisoning before you got any psychotropic effects from the wormwood. OP, don't buy Czech Absinthe. It's like MD20/20, only it's Absinthe. . |
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Posted: 10/3/2011 7:11:56 PM EDT
[#29]
Quoted: What's with you light weights? Getting sick from a little absinthe. lol I used to drink it all the time. For months it was the only thing I was drinking. It's pretty good. You pour a little water into it before you drink it. If you want to be fancier you can do the whole thing with the flaming sugar cube on a spoon and such. You can buy high wormwood absinthe online... it's legal. Where? If its real, I'm down to try it. The shit I tried was a huge letdown and I'd rather drink everclear |
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Posted: 10/3/2011 7:17:10 PM EDT
[#30]
I got some smuggled in back when I was in college. It was some real good Czech stuff that was at least $60 a bottle, but wasn't worth it. I liked the taste, but it didn't make me trip balls, so I was severely disappointed. If seeing shit is your goal, your money is better spent elsewhere.
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Posted: 10/3/2011 7:17:19 PM EDT
[#31]
Weak black licorice flavor.....didn't care for it all that much. (real stuff in Germany - not the US stuff)
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Posted: 10/3/2011 7:17:55 PM EDT
[#32]
bought some real shit in Latvia once.... I refer to it as the devil's spunk....
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Posted: 10/3/2011 7:19:39 PM EDT
[#33]
Quoted: Quoted: What's with you light weights? Getting sick from a little absinthe. lol I used to drink it all the time. For months it was the only thing I was drinking. It's pretty good. You pour a little water into it before you drink it. If you want to be fancier you can do the whole thing with the flaming sugar cube on a spoon and such. You can buy high wormwood absinthe online... it's legal. okay, what is the good wormwood brand(s) of choice available in the US? Decent ones include (and these are fairly commonly available) Kubler St. George Lucid Obsello La Clandestine And a reminder:  |
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Posted: 10/3/2011 7:21:47 PM EDT
[#34]
Quoted: MD 20/20 was my best friend in high school. Broke as fuck and was about all I could afford, but damn it did the job for sure. Quoted: The stuff bought in the states isn't real absinthe, its made without wormwood. The wormwood is what gives you the weird feeling and it is illegal in the states. Anybody that tells you that they feel different than just drunk off of absinthe bought at a store is a fucking poser. AGNSTA. Tests have been done on surviving examples of Absinthe from before it was banned, and the wormwood levels were not toxic. You'd die of alcohol poisoning before you got any psychotropic effects from the wormwood. OP, don't buy Czech Absinthe. It's like MD20/20, only it's Absinthe. . |
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Posted: 10/3/2011 7:23:49 PM EDT
[#35]
I mixed it with water.
Tastes oily, and like black licorice iirc. |
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Posted: 10/3/2011 7:23:54 PM EDT
[#36]
Quoted:
Tried it once. Tasted like shit. Spent the night puking black shit into and around the toilet. I didn't eat or drink anything black. ETA - This was US "Absinthe" at a bar in Florida. 
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Posted: 10/3/2011 7:24:04 PM EDT
[#37]
Humph. It reminded me of when I was a young man in Nagasaki, in oh, 1945 or so. I was standing there on a street corner on a beautiful summer day. The sky was a dark blue and there was a light breeze blowing. I felt as though I had the world by the fuckin' BALL's if you know what I mean!!! Damn but it was a wonderful day. Then, all of a sudden, there was this huge flash of light, and I looked down and realized that the guy that was standing next to me on the street corner had MY BALLS in his left hand, and he was laying ten feet away!!! It all went down hill from there. Never mind that I wasn't even born then. Nope, I ain't gonna drink that shit never fuckin' ever again!!!!! To add insult to injury, for three days I shit through a knot hole at fifty paces and never touched the sides.
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Posted: 10/3/2011 7:25:39 PM EDT
[#38]
overrated hyped shit.
buddy brought some back from germany on a tour. Had some at a halloween party last year. tasted like shit, no fairies were seen, tossed my cookies too.
perhaps the "fairy myth" had to do with the copius amounts of opiate being smoked, mercury poisoning from felt hats, late stage of diptheria, or overall horrendous living condtions of 19th Century London in general... or any combinations of these things. this is my theory at least |
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Posted: 10/3/2011 7:29:13 PM EDT
[#39]
Hmmm..... sounds like it is more hype than anything.
Guess I will get my thrills the old fashioned way. Drink Scotch while Auto-erotic asphyxiating watching Animal Planet |
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Posted: 10/3/2011 7:30:53 PM EDT
[#40]
Quoted:
The stuff bought in the states isn't real absinthe, its made without wormwood. The wormwood is what gives you the weird feeling and it is illegal in the states. Anybody that tells you that they feel different than just drunk off of absinthe bought at a store is a fucking poser. Incorrect. All absinthe sold everywhere have some form of wormwood in the "holy trinity" of absinthe herbs. What is regulated is the thujone content. However, even where thujone is not regulated in absinthe you would die of alchohol poisoning before getting any effects from the thujone. Back at the 1900s before the mass ban, people would see shit because they bought crap grade absinthe where the manufacturer would add random ass chemicals to make it green like the high grade brands. |
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Posted: 10/3/2011 7:32:11 PM EDT
[#41]
The American version is nasty and it's nothing like the European original. I was working in a bar when the stuff was made legal here again.
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Posted: 10/3/2011 7:32:23 PM EDT
[#42]
I like the occaisonal absinthe as a change of pace. It's not black in color, but clear so I'm not getting the black goo story. I wouldn't buy a bottle unless you like it, try it sometime.
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Posted: 10/3/2011 7:37:40 PM EDT
[#43]
Absinthe is sort of the booze equivilent of Lutefisk, Pemmican or other famine food. Rotgut grain alcohol cut with strong flavors and questionable additives in an attempt to turn it into something else. Like fortified wines or Ouzo. Or most Gin for that matter. Drink booze/beer/wine that at least represents the distillers art as an art... If you want some hallucinogens chew up a bit of a real mushroom and wash it down with a decent brew/wine/singlemalt and savor the experience.
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Posted: 10/3/2011 7:40:18 PM EDT
[#44]
Bought a bottle this summer from France. Wormwood and all and it wasn't great. Kind of like a Pernod/Sambuca lite. The buzz was a little different.
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Posted: 10/3/2011 7:42:05 PM EDT
[#45]
I tried in Mexico on spring break while in College after watching Euro Trip. I was disappoint.
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Posted: 10/3/2011 7:44:54 PM EDT
[#46]
Hype.
You would have to drink enough to enter a coma to get "high".... Why torture yourself drinking something you have to add sugar to to keep from spitting it out? To be "cool"? Stuff's repulsive. Yes I've had the "real" stuff, in Prague, 15 years ago.
Save your money for a beverage you actually ENJOY having.... |
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Posted: 10/3/2011 7:45:58 PM EDT
[#47]
Quoted:
The stuff bought in the states isn't real absinthe, its made without wormwood. The wormwood is what gives you the weird feeling and it is illegal in the states. Anybody that tells you that they feel different than just drunk off of absinthe bought at a store is a fucking poser. Its not illegal to have its just illegal to make here in the US at least the real absinthe, my uncle brought a some back the last time he was in Mexico, as long as you pay your duty on it you are fine. As far as taste it tasted like black jelly beans to me, I didn't drink anymore than one shot because I hated the taste, but I guess it was fun to try once, just to say I had. I can imagine if you got drunk off it, it would really screw you up. |
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Posted: 10/3/2011 7:46:05 PM EDT
[#48]
Get the real stuff and correctly filter it through cubes of sugar. Then decide if it was worth it or not as you try to figure out why you're naked and covered in paint and blood.
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Posted: 10/3/2011 8:00:33 PM EDT
[#49]
not worth trying stateside... not the real stuff
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Posted: 10/3/2011 8:01:26 PM EDT
[#50]
Deal with the bad flavor.
But there's no doubt you feel the effects of a shot dumped into a glass of water, within a minute. Were it grain alcohol, you wouldn't. There's something to it -if you get the real thing. |
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