How many of you adventurous orgers have tried that wonderful green substance?

Well?

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[This message was edited Thu Oct 10 20:13:16 PDT 2002 by IceNine]

Drink up and tell me about it, damn it!
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IceNine said:

the wonderful green substance known as canabis, is that the green substance you are talking about

MostBeautifulGrlNTheWorld said:

More specifically, the wonderful green alcoholic beverage...

http://hbd.org/brewery/li...bsfaq.html

dont believe i have tried it..


after dinner drink right..???


however i did try ever clear in a weak moment..

checking my calendar... oh, it IS 1800. i guess i was wrong

btw, I'm the Green Fairy

the only green alcoholic drinks I have drank is watermellon puckers and midori. They are both good.

AaronForever said:

It is available again in Spain and in various places in Europe... I have actually found places that sell it...



Absinthe is making a comeback!

woodworms... reminds me of Tequilla with the worm...YUCK.

I drank that stuff nightly for a whole summer in greece back in 99.. great stuff

we use to go on trips to the czech republic and buy crates of it LOL

AaronForever said:

Otherwise known as the "Green Hornet"

MostBeautifulGrlNTheWorld said:

i'm more of a Green Lantern if you MUST know

I prefer laudanum and snuff.

Okay, ladies and gentlemen... have fun!

Here are some recipes for "absinthe" which were originally posted to rec.food.drink. Absinthe is placed in quotes since only the last recipe here will produce something resembling the traditional drink.

** Absinthe #1 **

1 pint vodka
2 tsp crumbled wormwood (dried)
2tsp anise seed
1/2 tsp fennel seed
4 cardomom pods
1 tsp majoram
1/2 tsp ground coriander
2 tsp chopped angelica root
1 2/3 cups sugar syrup

Place vodka in large jar with tight fitting lid. Add wormwood and shake well; steep 48 hrs and strain out. Crush seeds and pods in mortar. Add them and all remaining spices to vodka and steep in a warm place 1 week. Filter and sweeten. (The sugar syrup mentioned above is your standard simple syrup.)

** Absinthe #2 **

1 tsp crumbled wormwood
1 cup vodka
2 Tbsp chopped peppermint leaves
1 piece of lemon peel, 3/4"x2"
1/3-1/2 cup sugar syrup

Steep wormwood in vodka for 48 hours. Strain out and add peppermint leaves and lemon peel. Steep for 8 days, strain and sweeten. Smells good but is more bitter than #1.

** Absinthe Wine **

All herbs are dried.

2 tsp peppermint
2tsp dried wormwood
2 tsp thyme
2 tsp lavender
2 tsp hyssop
2 tsp majoram
2 tsp sage
2 pints port

Steep herbs one week, filter and bottle. My notes describe this as "bitter, aromatic and potent".

** Absinthe #3 **

From Arnold's article in Scientific American: An 1855 recipe from Pontarlier, France, gives the following instructions for making absinthe:

Macerate 2.5 kilograms of dried wormwood, 5 kilograms of anise and 5 kilograms of fennel in 95 liters of 85 percent ethanol by volume. Let the mixture steep for at least 12 hours in the pot of a double boiler. Add 45 liters of water and apply heat; collect 95 liters of distillate. To 40 liters of the distillate, add 1 kilogram of Roman wormwood, 1 kilogram of hyssop and 500 grams of lemon balm, all of which have been dried and finely divided. Extract at a moderate temperature, then siphon off the liquor, filter, and reunite it with the remaining 55 liters of distillate. Dilute with water to produce approximately 100 liters of absinthe with a final alcohol concentration of 74 percent by volume (4).

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[This message was edited Thu Oct 10 21:29:24 PDT 2002 by IceNine]

Don't even know what it is.So i guess the answer is no.
Hell i only found out what a mullet was about three months ago.

4LOVE said:

Mullets and absinthe do not go together... absinthe is for poets and artists!

IceNine said:

Naw i was just using the mullet as an example of something that alot of people on the org knew about that i had never heard of before.Is this drink a strong alcoholic drink?

4LOVE said:

First: for the record, I do not drink.

Okay... now that we have that out of the way.

Absinthe is an alcoholic drink that contains thujone and can be hallucinogenic. It is allegedly very strong and can cause hallucinations with continued use.

Oscar Wilde on using Absinthe:

"After the first glass,
you see things as you wish they were.
After the second, you see things as they are not.
Finally, you see things as they really are,
which is the most horrible thing in the world."

- Oscar Wilde

Ice-Nine what is the story about this 1920's drink. Now I think you can buy it in N.Y.. Is it Poison? Is it Morphine? It is a drug Induced Stupor or High . What's the story behind Absinthe? Have you Ice-Nine Tried it? If so what was it Like?

I think whilst I was typing you actually answered my question. What I wanna know is it Dangerous?

I've always wanted to, but never actually have. I'm sorta a big Rimbaud fan so that's where my fancy for the idea of it came from. I'll have to try the recipe someday...

IceNine said:

WTF??? there's a drug i haven't tried.. shit!!! i'll get right on it ice.. after all ..a fellow's got his reputation to think about..

Has anybody tried Mushrooms or X-tasy what is that like. I was told you hullucinate colore is this also what happens with Absinthe. Not that I want it just wanna know what it's like. Also,Wormwood is not Good for you. So Absinthe is POISON. Wormwood supposedly cleans out parasites from your body Worms which supposedly we all have from food.
[This message was edited Thu Oct 10 22:11:35 PDT 2002 by Natasha]

Never heard of it til now.

I love the Oscar Wilde quote though.

I'll give it a rip. Why not?

Natasha said:

My housemates have shroomed and taken X... the experiences they describe to me seem wild.

However everyone who I know who have shroomed had a wonderful trip the first time but a really really bad trip the second time. Maybe it's just a weird coincidence... or maybe not

Drinking absint is a little bit like smoking a lot of ganja and drinking a lot of booze at the same time. it tastes quite bad though. I'm mostly drinking wine these days.

There are many types of Absinthe available on the market today many of which have the flavor but not the halluninagenic qualitites.Go for European varieties,not from the UK but France,Germany and especially Switzerland.

Much love Pochacco

I'm gonna try it. I hope I don't Hallucinate too much. I wonder what I'll write then.

Natasha said:

Absinthe is allegedly a dangerous substance that can cause brain damage... I would be quite careful.

BUT... if you do load up on Absinthe, please come back and tell us about it!

From what I have read, TommySoul is right about the effects of Absinthe.