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Any one in here drink Absinthe? (pg. 2)
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| The Master |
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| Vivid Boy |
I heard it can turn you into livestock
and an older woman into a cougar |
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| Moral Hazard |
| quote: | Originally posted by Surfmorworkless
I did all that. I get mixed reviews on it though. Such as it doesn't really cause hallucination and such. I was looking more so for a TA that could share his/her experiences with the mess. |
Thujone has a cumulative effect... if you drink high thujone absinthe several days in a row you'll experience hallucinations; however, if you just binge out on it one night you'll only get very very drunk. |
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| Aortik |
| quote: | Originally posted by Moral Hazard
Thujone has a cumulative effect... if you drink high thujone absinthe several days in a row you'll experience hallucinations; however, if you just binge out on it one night you'll only get very very drunk. |
I have read a few studies that concluded thujone content was really quite irrelevant, so long as there was some in it, but it's possible these studies were conducted or funded by recent brands trying to establish a US market, offering a product that fit within the FDA's current thujone limit because really, that is what is keeping Absinthe from being completely legal in the US. Yes, I know some recent brands such as Lucid are "real" Absinthe and to my experience truly are, but I can't say I've ever actually tried some 200 year-old French Absinthe, and I sort of doubt anyone here actually has, either.
As for hallucinations caused by thujone, I think that is really quite a myth - though I'll admit it's possible if you try for a cumulative effect, as Moral mentioned, but I cannot personally vouch for such an experience. I can however say that, as the actual brand by the name would suggest, drinking Absinthe in fact gives you a "lucid" drunk - you are aware of the fact that you are drunk and also aware of the fact that you feel a light floating sensation; this is a very different effect from most drunken binges of course, as your movements feel far more coordinated. Dreams are excellent, too - the notion of "absinthe dreams" is in fact quite truthful, in my experience, but of course I expect such an effect and dreams are a result of both cognitive and unconcious factors, so who knows if there was a sort of placebo effect involved.
Where most people probably go wrong is by drinking other alcohol while drinking absinthe - it cancels the effect - the thujone - or at least overlaps it with unnecessary grain and sugar content found in most other drinks. Another thing to watch out for when choosing an Absinthe are brands marketed as high thujone content - the chemical was likely extracted from an inferior type of wormwood, then blended into the absinthe-y tasting mix, a tactic seemingly common with many Czech and Swiss varities, something any connoisseur will tell you is NOT actual Absinthe. If you are familiar with the distilling process and the meticulousness that goes into both the choosing of the herbs and alcohol as well as the actual process itself, you'll understand why it's so incredibly ing lude to merely toss everything together into a pot and inject it with thujone to make a batch of "absinthe".
It has a very anis-y taste though... the seed, I mean. Just like black licorice. It's very numbing to the tongue, likely because of the exceedingly high alcohol content, but don't just pick whatever has the highest alcohol content either as it's the herbs and the process in which it's made that are most important. And no, you don't have to go to Europe to have good Absinthe... but it may help if you know what you are looking for. |
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| Az |
last time i drank it i woke up 12 hours later laying on some stairs.
good times. maybe |
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| jupiterone |
i love the taste of it
drank some before leaving europe this summer, bought 4 bottles in slovakia, stuff i had was 85 or so %
left the rest of the 2 bottles for next year :) |
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| boris_the_bear |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ygrene
That's only if you drink it and fap at the same time. |
please write in large size thank you |
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| gehzumteufel |
| Any Absinthe that is sold in a regulated market is going to fail at the hallucinogenic properties. Get some stuff from an unregulated source like in Poland (although I think that won't work anymore as they are now a member of the EU) where the thujone content is MUCH higher than a regulated bottle. |
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| Lebezniatnikov |
| When I was in Berlin during the World Cup we downed a couple of victory shots... I've never been so drunk in my life, but I didn't hallucinate. I think it just messes you up enough to make you do things you otherwise wouldn't. I seemed more impaired than I would have been on normal alcohol, but who knows, the stuff is awfully strong and it came in double-shots. |
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| Adam420 |
| Some Absinthe is as it only contains a high ABV and none of the ingredients like anise and wormwood extract that really make absinthe absinthe. Those are the things that get you hallucinating. |
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| Aortik |
| quote: | Originally posted by gehzumteufel
Any Absinthe that is sold in a regulated market is going to fail at the hallucinogenic properties. Get some stuff from an unregulated source like in Poland (although I think that won't work anymore as they are now a member of the EU) where the thujone content is MUCH higher than a regulated bottle. |
Are you saying you'd rather buy Absinthe from Jose since he isn't regulated? DO HO HO, EXPLAIN THAT.
And please, people, read up on Thujone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thujone
You are not going to trip from Absinthe, nor are you going to hallucinate any more than you would off marijuana - not to say you won't perceive things slightly differently or take in light in a slightly altered way, but "hallucinate" is sort of a misleading term. |
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| Aortik |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov
When I was in Berlin during the World Cup we downed a couple of victory shots... I've never been so drunk in my life, but I didn't hallucinate. I think it just messes you up enough to make you do things you otherwise wouldn't. I seemed more impaired than I would have been on normal alcohol, but who knows, the stuff is awfully strong and it came in double-shots. |
Oh God, don't do it in shots. ing heathen!
Just the thought of Absinthe shots makes my stomach want to curl up into a ball and wish the world away.
Steeping a sugar cube into it with ice-cold water - the French method - is farrrr more appetizing. Plus, you don't get trashed and can enjoy the taste and the lucidity way more. |
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