Posted on 08/26/2017 8:50:41 AM PDT by Mafe
Even our U.S. presidents like to have an adult beverage every once in a while. In Mark Will-Weber’s book, “Mint Juleps with Teddy Roosevelt: The Complete History of Presidential Drinking,“ he details every president’s favorite alcoholic beverage and explores the stories behind the drink. Will-Weber’s book also reveals the more “human side” of our nation’s leaders, which is important for us all to see from time to time.
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Absinthe is good—I like it. Readily available in Europe.
Local liquor stores sell absinthe in a set, with the bottle, two glasses and an ornate slotted spoon for the sugar cube.
Otay, name names. We are curious.
Read the post.
I named two and supplied a link to a complete list of both domestic and imports.
I visited Belgrade, Serbia a couple of years ago. The local specialty drink is made from wormwood and called Pelinkovac. It was served to me in a glass with a slice of lemon. Really interesting drink.
Campari, made in Italy, is similar to it, but Pelinkovac was much more intense.
The wormwood in the current legal Absinthe for sale, has been reduced from what was in original recipes. Swiss farmers have made it for years using original recipes,they were not allowed to sell it commercially. I have a number of bottles of it, that were bootlegged out. I also have a preban bottle of Pernod Absinthe. Absinthe traditionally has a very high alcohol by volume content, but the wormwood ( ie original recipe,not current legal variety) makes your mind very clear and presicent, but your body ,ie coordination, is that of drinking very high alcohol content.
A safe bet on the Kenyan would be Schlitz Bull malt liquor
Or Schmitt's Gay
Interesting considering Trump doesn’t drink at all according to sources.
I’ve seen this plant many times. I thought that it was just a weed:
Description
Artemisia absinthium is a herbaceous, perennial plant with fibrous roots. The stems are straight, growing to 0.8–1.2 metres (2 ft 7 in–3 ft 11 in) (rarely 1.5 m, but, sometimes even larger) tall, grooved, branched, and silvery-green. The leaves are spirally arranged, greenish-grey above and white below, covered with silky silvery-white trichomes, and bearing minute oil-producing glands; the basal leaves are up to 25 cm long, bipinnate to tripinnate with long petioles, with the cauline leaves (those on the stem) smaller, 5–10 cm long, less divided, and with short petioles; the uppermost leaves can be both simple and sessile (without a petiole). Its flowers are pale yellow, tubular, and clustered in spherical bent-down heads (capitula), which are in turn clustered in leafy and branched panicles. Flowering is from early summer to early autumn; pollination is anemophilous. The fruit is a small achene; seed dispersal is by gravity.[6]
It grows naturally on uncultivated, arid ground, on rocky slopes, and at the edge of footpaths and fields.
Toxicity[edit]
Artemisia absinthium contains thujone, a GABAA receptor antagonist that can cause epileptic-like convulsions and kidney failure when ingested in large amounts.
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In Memphis on Beal Street, there is an absinthe bar.
Nope, but that fella will knock back some liberal tears...
FDR was renowned for his martinis which he mixed himself.
They were called the worst ever inflicted on anyone.
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