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  • File : 1260765612.jpg-(38 KB, 268x283, absinthe.jpg)
    38 KB Anonymous 12/13/09(Sun)23:40 No.1416940  
    What's going on /ck/?

    Was considering getting a bottle of Absinthe for Xmas and New Years. Is it a worthwhile experience?
    >> Anonymous 12/13/09(Sun)23:43 No.1416950
    Tastes like horsepiss. Don't bother.
    >> Anonymous 12/13/09(Sun)23:44 No.1416952
    no, terrible drink
    >> Anonymous 12/13/09(Sun)23:45 No.1416957
    I agree. Not worth it.
    >> Anonymous 12/13/09(Sun)23:46 No.1416963
    OP here: Alright, any other suggestions as to what I should get a bottle of for XMas/New Years? I need something out of the ordinary for this year.
    >> !vY/2a6ErWs 12/13/09(Sun)23:46 No.1416965
    Just like getting drunk normally.
    You'll probably find that it tastes worse too.
    >> Anonymous 12/13/09(Sun)23:47 No.1416968
    >>1416963

    Mead is festive. My roommate mulled some other other day and loved it.
    >> Anonymous 12/13/09(Sun)23:48 No.1416971
    As far as vodka goes, the more unreadable the label is, the better the booze inside is. Get something that looks downright byzantine and you'll be doing well for yourself.
    >> Anonymous 12/13/09(Sun)23:49 No.1416972
    Absinthe tastes like gasoline. Unless you're buying some illegal brew that has a lot of Thujone in it, you won't hallucinate at all.
    >>1416963
    Get some Gluvine. Warm it up in a pot and serve at the same temperature as tea. Throw in some Clementine for that little extra holiday taste.
    >> !vY/2a6ErWs 12/13/09(Sun)23:50 No.1416974
    >>1416963
    Aftershock

    Find a girl thats willing to try hold a double in her mouth for longer than you (inb4 semen, dicks, balls etc)

    Repeat

    Sex
    >> Anonymous 12/13/09(Sun)23:57 No.1416994
    >>1416972
    >Absinthe tastes like gasoline
    Actually, it tastes like licorice, unless you get some low shelf swill.
    >> Anonymous 12/13/09(Sun)23:58 No.1416998
    >>1416994

    How do you know gasoline doesn't taste like licorice?
    >> Anonymous 12/13/09(Sun)23:58 No.1416999
    >>1416972
    Gluhwein
    >> Anonymous 12/14/09(Mon)00:01 No.1417006
    I like absinthe, but the only "experience" you will get is getting drunk. The "psychedelic" properties of absinthe have long been exaggeraetd and are essentially myth.

    If you like licorice, its not a bad buy. Get a slotted spoon and some sugar cubes, and do the whole light the cube on fire thing. It's fun, tastes good man - as long as youre into anise.

    But don't expect anything but a booze buzz.
    >> Anonymous 12/14/09(Mon)00:05 No.1417013
    >>1416999
    gluhuwaihine.
    Thank you for correcting me.
    >> Anonymous 12/14/09(Mon)00:07 No.1417016
    There was a time when I raged at absinthe threads, but I just can't be bothered anymore.

    Op I think you should go for it, as long as your parents don't find out you and your sister make cute couple and you should do what makes you happy.
    >> Anonymous 12/14/09(Mon)00:09 No.1417023
    >>1417016
    >implying everything eurotrip depicted is true
    >> Anonymous 12/14/09(Mon)00:10 No.1417026
    >>1417006
    Seriously, if you get an illegal amount of Thujone, it does make you hallucinate, so originally Absinthe did have psychedelic properties, but the brew has been changed to fit our current laws.
    >> Anonymous 12/14/09(Mon)00:12 No.1417031
    >>1417026
    Thujone can be psychoactive, but there are recipes now that simulate those used and they're not. It's mostly myth and romanticism.
    >> Anonymous 12/14/09(Mon)00:21 No.1417052
    >>1417026

    can't you get you the real stuff still in some countries?
    >> Anonymous 12/14/09(Mon)00:37 No.1417081
    >>1417006
    This anon speaks truth

    I love absinthe, my favourite hipflask came as an absinthe bottle from Prague.

    It's just alcohol though...it's illegal to produce absinthe that contains enough thurjone to have any effect at all. You'd need to drink an entire bottle of the stuff to have the same effect as a glass of the stuff from 200years ago did and an entire bottle of absinthe would kill you. Well, it might, you certainly wouldn't be concious for long.

    The sugar and spoon thing is fun at parties (a small fork is just as good and more commonly available) but if you're not doing party tricks then just drink it with a splash of ice water and it's great. It needs to be drunk slowly because a) it has an intense flavour and b) it's usually about 70% so you stun your taste buds with each sip and they need time to recover.
    >> Anonymous 12/14/09(Mon)00:39 No.1417087
    >>1417023
    Isn't it?

    >>1417013
    :)
    >> Anonymous 12/14/09(Mon)00:40 No.1417090
    >>1417052

    Yes. The "real" original Pernod recipe didn't have nearly enough thujone in it to cause any psychoactive side effects that alcohol intoxication won't though.

    Absinthe is a great drink, especially the more authentic examples. Some of the flashy neon American-geared garbage out there is pretty bad though. Stick to big names like Pernod.

    There are great examples of every type of liquor. Just because most people drink crappy hyped up examples of certain things doesn't mean the beverage as a whole is bad. Just because Grey Goose is overrated marketing-driven garbage doesn't mean ALL vodka is bad. Same goes for Absinthe.


    If you are looking for another type of liquor that has a lot of interesting character... SCOTCH.
    >> Anonymous 12/14/09(Mon)00:43 No.1417096
    >>1417052
    Considering the real stuff is from Czech republic and they follow EU laws on food & drink...no.

    The original stuff was basically cheap wine with a shitload of herbs infused into it. Because it used herbs etc, the dosage of the various stuff was pretty random which is why some bottles of the stuff could actually be pretty dangerous.

    A modern industrial process using extracted chemicals in carefully metered dosages would be safe enough but the distilleries that can do that follow the laws that say not to make it with enough thurjone to make you trip. So basically no, if someone is selling absinthe that "really works" then they're either lying to you or worse, they're telling the truth and who the fuck what is in there and how much there is of it.

    Would you drink a backyard mix of drugs and alcohol? I sure as fuck wouldn't. Illegally made absinthe is a risky proposition, partly because it could actually be pretty dangerous and partly because it might actually just be the legal stuff pretending to be edgy.
    >> Anonymous 12/14/09(Mon)01:32 No.1417151
    I have a bottle of absinth in my cabnet, I just had a look at it and it says thujone never got banned in the Czech Republic and original absinth containes thujone should be consumed with ice and water, the brand is green fairy.
    It dosnt come out very often, seems to put the brakes on pretty quick make sure you got your pajamas on first type of drink
    >> Anonymous 12/14/09(Mon)01:35 No.1417153
    >>1417096
    >Would you drink a backyard mix of drugs and alcohol?

    Hell yes.
    >> Anonymous 12/14/09(Mon)01:35 No.1417155
    Ernest Hemingway's "Death in the Afternoon":

    1 oz. absinthe
    5 oz. chilled champagne
    "Drink three to five of these very slowly."

    All the hype aside, absinthe ... really isn't all that different from another booze. Most people drink it for the hype and the romance and setting shit on fire. If you wanna try it, try it. But don't expect Kylie Minogue to show up in a green spangled miniskirt and sing backup with Ewan MacGregor.
    >> Anonymous 12/14/09(Mon)04:59 No.1417368
    get shrooms, soak in vodka at room temp for 7 days or so, strain, chill, drink vodka = tastes about the same and actually makes you trip
    >> Anonymous 12/14/09(Mon)13:04 No.1417770
    >>1416963

    Try Chartreuse. It's another strong green anise liqueur with an interesting history, but it has a more complex taste than absinthe- quite sweet and spicy.
    >> Anonymous 12/14/09(Mon)22:31 No.1418883
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    I pronounce it ob-sahnth
    >> Anonymous 12/14/09(Mon)22:45 No.1418919
    it wont do anything to you that other alcohol doesn't
    there's more thujone in the sage you put on your dinner.

    then again drinking 160 proof alcohol will get you fucking trashed.
    >> Anonymous 12/14/09(Mon)22:48 No.1418930
    >>1418919
    Most of the fun of absinthe is the dilution ritual, though. I doubt many people drink it straight.
    >> Anonymous 12/14/09(Mon)22:51 No.1418941
    it goes great with clove cigarettes

    or it did

    THANK YOU VERY MUCH OBAMA
    >> Anonymous 12/14/09(Mon)22:55 No.1418948
    >>1418919
    Make it yourself so you can make it with a very high thujone count. It'll taste fucking bitter as hell though. I know a guy that used to make it. He'd make it so strong with wormwood that he grew in his backyard that it was like pea soup green and it would floor you even though it was only about 30%ABV. Worst tasting shit ever. I tasted it, but I wouldn't drink it like he did.
    >> Anonymous 12/14/09(Mon)22:55 No.1418951
    >>1418941
    >cigarettes

    What is wrong with people like you? You stink.
    >> Anonymous 12/14/09(Mon)22:55 No.1418952
    if you are ookin for halucinations get real drugs.
    >> Anonymous 12/14/09(Mon)22:57 No.1418957
    make it yourself and you can dump a bunch of cocaine in it
    >> Anonymous 12/14/09(Mon)22:57 No.1418959
    >>1418948
    no you dont get it, even if you put so much wormwood in it, that it was thick and you were drinking hunks of leaf.

    youd still get more thujone from the amount of sage you put in your dinner
    >> Anonymous 12/14/09(Mon)23:00 No.1418963
    but sage liqueur would be terrible
    >> Anonymous 12/14/09(Mon)23:01 No.1418966
    >>1418963
    I don't know, people drink sage tea. Actually, anyone have a recipe for sage tea? Inb4sage and hot water
    >> Anonymous 12/14/09(Mon)23:03 No.1418969
    >>1418966
    those people are called hippies
    >> Anonymous 12/14/09(Mon)23:08 No.1418979
    >>1418959
    >youd still get more thujone from the amount of sage you put in your dinner

    Not true. People don't use very much sage in their seasoning. If you are comparing sage oil to the grand wormwood plant then you are comparing incorrectly in the first place.
    >> Anonymous 12/14/09(Mon)23:12 No.1418991
    >>1418941
    hahaha oh wow
    >> Anonymous 12/14/09(Mon)23:28 No.1419036
    First Obama came for the clove cigarettes, and I did not speak out—because I was not a fat goff chick;

    Then Obama came for the caffeinated alcopops, and I did not speak out—because I was not white trash;
    >> Anonymous 12/14/09(Mon)23:49 No.1419046
    >>1419036
    >clove cigarettes
    >caffeinated alcopops

    You can still buy them. They're just named differently. What's your problem?
    >> Anonymous 12/14/09(Mon)23:50 No.1419047
    >>1419046
    What are clove cigarettes now called? What are alcopops now called? Not sure if relevant to interests.
    >> Anonymous 12/14/09(Mon)23:55 No.1419054
    >>1419047
    >clove cigarettes

    They're called clove cigars or cigarettes. Available in headshops country-wide.
    >> Anonymous 12/14/09(Mon)23:59 No.1419058
    >>1419054
    Legally? I don't follow...
    >> Anonymous 12/15/09(Tue)00:04 No.1419064
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    the alcopops (de facto) ban is only for ones that have caffeine, like sparks

    the administration has done an end-run around the legislative process by having the FDA last month issue an order giving 30 days to companies producing them to demonstrate that caffeine + alcohol is safe

    something which the companies involved can nor afford nor accomplish in the alloted time
    >> Anonymous 12/15/09(Tue)00:04 No.1419065
    >>1419058

    YES THEY'RE STILL LEGAL, I STILL BUY THEM WHAT PART DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND?!
    >> Anonymous 12/15/09(Tue)00:05 No.1419068
    >>1419065
    >You can still buy them. They're just named differently.
    >They're called clove cigars or cigarettes.
    >named differently
    >they're called clove cigarettes
    >> Anonymous 12/15/09(Tue)00:06 No.1419070
    mini cigars only, and this is a temporary situation

    bali hais are gone
    djarum blacks are gone
    etc
    >> Anonymous 12/15/09(Tue)00:14 No.1419083
    >>1419068

    It's just you named it right. Good for you.
    >> Anonymous 12/15/09(Tue)00:16 No.1419087
    >>1419083
    What am I reading.jpg
    >> Anonymous 12/15/09(Tue)00:16 No.1419091
    >clove cigars

    Who told you they're illegal? They're still everywhere you fucking morons.
    >> Anonymous 12/15/09(Tue)00:17 No.1419093
    >>1419091
    http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-09-22-flavored-clove-cigarettes_N.htm
    >> Anonymous 12/15/09(Tue)00:18 No.1419096
    I have never had absinthe in the traditional (?) frou frou sugar cube method way, because the first time I tried it was at room temperature, sipped from a shot glass.

    Keeping in mind this stuff is something like 150 proof, and at warmer temperatures is therefore rather volatile, small sips vaporize almost the moment they hit your tongue, assaulting your palate with fiery anise vapor.

    It's pretty swell, actually. I wouldn't buy a bottle in a million years, though. Shit's for posers.
    >> Anonymous 12/15/09(Tue)00:20 No.1419098
    >>1419093
    >The ban, however, does not apply to flavored cigars or smokeless tobacco products.
    >> Anonymous 12/15/09(Tue)00:20 No.1419099
    >>1419093

    They are now sold by the name of clove cigars. Stop reading the internet and go out more.
    >> Anonymous 12/15/09(Tue)00:27 No.1419117
    http://www.fda.gov/TobaccoProducts/GuidanceComplianceRegulatoryInformation/FlavoredTobacco/ucm183228
    .htm

    >5. Under what, if any, circumstances would FDA consider cigars, including little cigars, to be in violation of the ban in section 907(a)(1) of the FDCA?

    >The ban applies to all tobacco products with certain characterizing flavors that meet the definition of a “cigarette” in section 900(3) of the FDCA even if they are not labeled as “cigarettes” or are labeled as cigars or as some other product.

    >We encourage members of the public to submit any information relevant to compliance with the prohibition of cigarettes containing characterizing flavors, including information concerning consumer perception of tobacco products not labeled as cigarettes, but because of their appearance, the type of tobacco used in the filler, or their packaging and labeling, are likely to be offered to, or purchased by, consumers as cigarettes. Please submit any information to Docket No. FDA-2009-N-0294.

    so it's just a matter of time before the minicigars have to stop looking like cigarettes entirely and the only thing left will be ones the size swisher sweets

    oh it also bans roll your own cloves



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