Now I am more curious than ever to try absinthe. And, yes, I WON’T drive afterwards. I do know it was incredibly popular in Paris towards the end of the 19th century.
Local liquor stores sell absinthe in a set, with the bottle, two glasses and an ornate slotted spoon for the sugar cube.
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.