I love Absinthe. IMHO, it produces a different kind of buzz than most alcohol. Much mellower and overall better.
The absinthe sold today is not the same as what was available in the 1800s.
-SB
Oh. So, Absinthe has nothing to do with that notorious
“Devil in A Blue Dress” I’ve been warned about.
Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.
Popular media has been trying to resurrect this low-grade intoxicant of dubious actual effects lately since it fell out of vogue in the 19’th century.
Makes a nice Sazerac
I went to this place in Paris on the way from a visit to the cemetery. It was mid afternoon and I was only one in the place.Did the fountain. It was a trip but saw no green fairies.
https://www.yelp.com/biz/cantada-ii-paris-3
Owner died and is now closed
In Brussels Belgium, directly across the street from the famous Delerium Tremens Cafe (the Pink Elephant Bar where they stock about 2,500 different beers) is Floris Bar.
The Floris Bar has its own specialty: you travel back in time in an old Parisian bistro to get acquainted with a forgotten drink (that was banned until recently) and reanimated: the famous Absinthe (more than 600 different brsnds of it)
You can taste Absinthe in different ways: in a shot, traditional way with a piece of sugar and water dripping on it from a fountain, flambéed in a pipe!
Joe owns both Delerium and Floris.
I was in Brussels for the great Belgian Beer Festival in the Grande Place Square where they have over 300 Belgian beers on tap for three days.
I met a group of guys at Floris from around the world who called themselves the “World Drinking Team.” They pretty much emptied every bottle of Absinthe on the shelf. Don’t know how they walked upright. I took it easy as a rank amateur, having one for about every ten they drank. They even had Absinthe enhanced with THC at Floris.
We drank all night until the sun came up and returned to the beer festival for another day.
Haven’t touched the stuff since!
“With a face most hair, and the dreary stare of a dog whose day is done,
As he watered the green stuff in his glass, and the drops fell one by one.”
A reference to drinking absinthe from ‘The Shooting of Dan McGrew’ by Robert Service.
I remember reading an article in Scientific American that explained that due to the bitterness it was common to set a slotted spoon over the glass containing a sugar cube. Water was then pored over the sugar thus sweetening the absinthe before consumption
Absinthe was Vincent VanGogh’s favorite drink. Especially when he cut off his ear.
Bkmk
It’s good stuff. The bad reputation is from it going down smooth even though it is basically like drinking ever clear.
I wish I could find the absinthe ad I saw in a magazine a few years ago. It showed a young man passed out prone on a split rail fence. It was captioned; “Absinthe. It messes you up.”
Any psychedelic effects from absinthe is actually from the high alcohol content. People think it’s from the thujone used to flavor the drink. Actually, the amount of thujone in ANY absinthe is so low that you’d be ingesting more thujone just eating your Thanksgiving stuffing because of how much is in sage.
After drinking my small bottle I bought in Greece, I was falling down drunk.
Love Absinthe, but only as an occasional thing and never more than one.
Pricey but potent
Ricard and Pernod similar.
But $$ too
I like a Pimm’s cup Brit style with gin and Pimm’s
Rare gin very dirty olives galore martini as though vodka is a real martini
It’s not
And Stella draft
Rarely drink but I like those
During my visit to southern France in 1972, I sampled some absinth and it was supposed to be the good stuff made by someone’s grandfather. It gave a nice buzz, and I did not hallucinate. Although I probably did not drink as much as Van Gogh did, I left with both ears intact.