For over 200 years, absinthe has enjoyed the reputation of being a creativity enhancer and aphrodisiac. Said to have been popular with the likes of Van Gogh, Monet, Picasso and Hemingway, absinthe is rapidly regaining a wide following. Henri-Louis Pernod's original absinth recipe included angelica, aniseed, fennel, hyssop, juniper, nutmeg and wormwood (which contains the neurotoxin thujone). Chlorophyll was then added to give absinthe a green hue thus giving rise to its romantic nickname "La Fée Verte" or the green fairy.
Absinthe is an alcoholic drink made with an extract from wormwood (Artemisia absinthium). It is an emerald green absinthe drink which is very bitter (due to the presence of absinthin) and is therefore traditionally poured over a perforated absinthe spoon full of sugar into a glass of water. But strong absinthe is also becoming well-liked as a base for cocktails. You can also light the sugar on fire let it carmelize, drop it into the absinthe ,it will catch fire with a blue flame.

Some say you get really drunk, but not Normal drunk, its like liquid clarity.

Ive put this here cuz i think it might be a bunch of crap. I have no dought that its a strong drink from whats in it, i just dont think it does what people say.

“The first stage is like ordinary drinking, the second when you begin to see monstrous and cruel things, but if you can persevere you will enter in upon the third stage where you see things that you want to see, wonderful curious things.”
—Oscar Wilde

“The absinthe made everything seem better. I drank it without sugar in the dripping glass, and it was pleasantly bitter. I poured the water directly into it and stirred it instead of letting it drip. I stirred the ice around with a spoon in the brownish, cloudy mixture. I was very drunk. I was drunker than I ever remembered having been.” —Ernest Hemingway

“Got tight last night on absinthe. Did knife tricks.” —Hemingway

Mary Shelly the chick that wrote Frankenstine drank absinthe while she wrote it.
Heres a good site if u want to know more about it:
http://www.moderndrunkardmagazine.com/issu...02_absinthe.htm

I think im going to give it a whirl, maybe try it out with my friends and see how we "feel" after. Im a Jack Daniel's fan so i like hard drinks, even though jack is 80-86 proof, absinthe is 136 proof.But where im from we call that Moonshine, moonshine its easly the same, but only a tase test will tell.
IF anyone has drank some fill me in , how did u like it and or feel?

As well as being a decent substitute for rocket-fuel it has hallucinatory properties, at least when brewed right. That's all there is to it, no magic.

Where in the world do you get it from? I live in the us and would give it a go.

Its really a bottled hallucinagen, straight from herbs.?!?!
u mean just like jaggermister has elks blood in it ??!!

If u want to try some ckick the link , it has a link to click to take u to where u can buy it .

P.S this is a real drink made for people of age, im not recomending to minors
21 means 21, drink responsbly

I believe the halluciogenic ingredient was wormwood.
The way it was created, as well as drank and indeed the ingrediants, are not the same today, even in france and as such it is not a hallucigen anymore.
And it's banned in the states as it is i believe.

Yes it is banned in the States but u can get it shipped here. makes so sence. they say its still made the same way wit the same things only i bet its not like it was 200 years ago. im still trying it though. Anyone think that it did or does bring out ur creativity?

No, it just gets you mindlessly drunk, lmao. I've had it a few times.

Sound like it does the trick richdog, did u like it? do u use sugar or just drink it straight? mindlessly drunk yes... excelent.(Mr burns voice.)

lol let me just say this. We had it near the beginning of the night (2 shots of it, 80%). It burns all the way down and only the hardiest of throats will manage not to retch. From then on it takes about 2 minutes before you start feeling decidedly giddy. From then on every drink you have during the night will have 2x the effect of what it normally does. If you wake up outside of a jail cell in the morning count yourself lucky.

Sweet! i love drunken adventures where u have no clue what happens, but then u turn on the tv and ur all over the news lol!!. That or ur friends show u pics and the tape to bring u up to speed. it should be in my hands in 12 days. wuhhahahahahahaa!

All it does these days is, as Richdog said, gets you drunk.

No Absinthe is made with the hallucin ingrediant 'Wormwood' in it anymore.
Also to make it have the desired effect, even if you could find the real stuff, the preparation usually takes a very long time and is quite complicated.

Without doubt, this is simply the finest Absinthe available. In its elegant new bottle, it looks good, it tastes good, it is good. Made by craftsmen distillers in the Czech Republic to a secret 200 year old Swiss recipe, it is said by connoisseurs to compare with the rarest French cognacs. Only the highest quality ingredients are used in its manufacture and it is guaranteed to bee free of artificial colourants and chemicals. It contains many herbal extracts including angelica, aniseed, fennel, hyssop, juniper, nutmeg and wormwood (which contains the neurotoxin thujone). This is what makes our Absinte Original the most authentic and desired brand in the market. Drink it with a little sugar and water or as a base for your favourite absinth drink. Either way, La Boheme Czech Absinthe is one of life's great pleasures. Absinthe Original contains 10 mg/kg of thujone.

i got this off the site where u can buy it ,wormwood it in it Burnside but i suspect its nothing like how it was before, Im sure its more of a now and agian kind of drink, not something u would have everyday. True the prep does take a little time, but it doesnt seem that difficult, (unlike chewing, that takes time, i mean after u get the food done, u gotta chew it, well chewing is for squares i like my food jetson pill form please)~ mindless rambling so sorry.

Magic mushrooms work a lot better for hallucinations

absinthe was oke but not intense

Hrmm. I know that it's either missing.. or maybe it was that it had a much smaller quantity compared to back in the day.

mushrooms arnt bad, id like to say trippin is intresting but im intrested in this at a more alcoholic level. taste, smell,body, ect ect. Aw who
am i kidden the trippin is a bonus.

absinth is the stuff you drink before going to parties. a great way to loosen up

I think I'll pass, looks like a short trip to brain damage. I have enough damage in my brain. I don't need to help it a long. Have fun guys.

a lot of people credit it to their creativity, cuz it made them think clear-er.

absinthe is legal once again in some countries. i drink absinthe almost 2 years yet i haven't seen anything weird and everyone is keep asking me or my friends if we saw a green fairy.
well no, the only way to see a green fairy is called drugs.
Absinthe right now has just a little bit of Thujone inside and that's not even enough for a fairy fart. Thujone can be found in some veggies or spices around the world but Absinthia (the plant) has a high amount of it.

Let me share some of my history with you guy before I for into what it did to me.

I’ve worked in about 10 different bars in my life over the past 15 years, my first experience with the REAL
Stuff just about killed me not that I wanted to life at that point anyhow. I was 20 at the time & I had lost my first real love of my life to stomach cancer some 6 months later I found myself working in my first bar in L.a. I tried to kill myself chemically for those two years I was there by drinking the stuff., from what I understand back then you were supposed to drink only a spoonful of this stuff with a cube of sugar melted in it. Well I was drinking it straight I’m not sure how this new stuff works but I highly doubt that it’s the same stuff anymore hence why it’s allowed back into the U.S.

I don’t remember a lot of what I did or said during those two years it was kind of a blur now I will admit I was drinking other stuff was well. I still drink here & there but for me I’ll never touch the stuff again old or new.

Now if you think I’m a lightweight drinker think again I promise you I can drink everyone of you under the table So good luck with the new stuff….

What the hell was the point of bringing up a three year old thread?
And why is it in the Spirituality section?

I was wondering about that I didn't know it was 3 years old I just went with it.....

LOL no worries norwood. I was actually directing my comment at the other guy.

Absinthe is nothing magical, but it damned sure feels like it. It really depends on what's in it; the stuff I took from my parents was mostly an intense drunk, but the stuff my friend had was like... WHOA.

Unfortunately, I think it's illegal in Canada, it's not exactly readily available anywhere except Europe as far as I know.

And after writing that... holy crap, old thread. And yeah, I'm wondering about the section too, but then again, substance abuse is pretty spiritual for some people. ;P

I had some at Mead fest. Took a couple of drinks and went out in the woods and barfed. Tasted as bad going down as it did coming back up. It was homemade with the wormwood. I'll stick to mead thank you. It did make me hallucinate a little but it didn't last very long. Maybe cause of barfing it.

We can get here in Germany & I was very disappointed, that's all I can say( tried it twice)

sorry about that, i was just searching about absinthe and stuff when i found this forum. so it was kinda more than a reason to do that

hi this is a very interesting post.
Do you think that modern absinthe is as good as the recipe you have given us ? were can you go and get some ?

you wrote .......''Ive put this here cuz i think it might be a bunch of crap''.........

what do you mean by this ???

Where did you get the idea that Jägermeister has elk's blood in it?

Anyway, wormwood was the ingredient in absinthe that allegedly caused hallucinations and insanity if you drank too much of it, due to the thujone in the wormwood plant. Nowadays most absinthe only has wormwood extract, with little to no thujone. However, you can still get some of the "real deal" absinthe in some European countries, with an alcohol percentage of up to 80% (some of the more shady types of absinthe might also include marijuana). But today the general consensus is that absinthe is no more dangerous than other types of alcohol, as the alleged hallucinogenic effect wasn't what was dangerous, it was the consumption of large amounts of absinthe over extended periods.

Personally I've been drinking Bohem Absinth as shots (I can't be bothered with all the hassle of adding water and sugar and all that, I just shot it down and flush it with some beer.. But be aware, absinthe shots with an alcohol percentage of 50% kicks hard).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absinth_Wormwood
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absinthe

the other reason it was more of a hallucinogen is that they often added drops of laudanum to the sugar cube then poured the absinthe over the sugar like you see in the movie from hell... you can still get both absinthe & laudanum in the caribbean... i know ppl who've bought it there tho they opted out of getting the laudanum as it tends to be highly addictive

This.

I've had several varieties of absinthe and it's nothing too amazing, definitely a different type of drunk. The active ingredient is wormwood, only bottles with a particularly high content of wormwood will have hallucinatory properties. I'm not even sure you can still get Absinthe with enough wormwood, however you can order wormwood extracts to add to absinthe over the internet.

I'm also relatively sure it's impossible to get a full blown psychedelic trip from wormwood, no matter how high the dose is.

Ive drank the real stuff in Prague an i tell yaa it was just like drinking any other booze, i dident get hallocugenis or stoned or anything else an i had about 6 glasses with the burnt sugar. it was nioce i just felt it over rated, wich is a pity cos i had looked forward to drinking it and im known to be very friendly to drinks.

The first time I had it we used 75%... that doesn't just kick hard, it gives you a roundhouse to the face and shoves its fist down your throat, lol. You could use whiskey to wash that sh** down.

In my experience, absinthe can have hallucinogenic properties, you just have to approach it from the right place. Ergo, if you're a bunch of drunkards on a stag night to the Czech Republic who try some absinthe cos you've heard it will get you 'wasted', most likely the only thing that will happen is you'll get very, very drunk. But if you get proper absinthe and do it in a relaxed atmosphere by the right method... that's some trippy sh**!

Absinthe shots with an alcohol percentage of 75%? I take it you were pretty wasted in the end? Anyway, I think booze with an alcohol percentage of more than 60% is considered to fall under the narcotics law in Norway, if I remember correctly. But I've drunk moonshine with 96% alcohol. It tastes horrible, but it gets you wasted in no time

If that had any refrence to my post. i wasent on a stag weekend, i was visiting buisness associates. whom own a large media corporation, and the surroundings were probably more luxurious than u could imagine.