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At The Back => The Dressing Room => Topic started by: shaman on March 27, 2007, 02:22:51 AM
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wondering about brands/customs(illegal to sell in U.S.),etc...any help for an Absinthe noobie.....
thanks, and bottoms up
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Someone in my office just received 2 bottles of absinthe today from a friend who returned from a vacation in France!
Personally, I hate the stuff. I just had to comment on the irony of the whole thing.
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I tried it once...
I remember getting my tattoo but after that....
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My advice would be to put anything sharp out of reach before you start drinking. Only had it a few times, but I was seriously drunk before I had it both times. Don't ask me what I was like after, I can't remember :wink:
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A 'friend' of mine once done too many shots of Absinthe a few years ago. He drank it on Saturday and had a hang over till monday/tuesday, we had college those days too :lol:
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It only takes 2 shots to inebriate you! Well that's what it was like for me, but it depends what alcohol level was ours was 80%!!!
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I remember a party once from when I was a teenager (which is very odd as my short term memory has gone...errr....shall we say up in smoke since then). This lad had a little bottle of something French that was about 80%. I'm pretty sure it's for cooking, not for drinking as it had a kind of vinegar bottle top on it, but he removed it and drank the whole bottle in one anyway.
I saw him fall off the garden wall a little while later :twisted: Larfed my arse off.
Bugger, I feel all old now :cry:
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Are you sure he is still alive?!
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I had a few beers and then about 2/3 of a bottle of it once (sounds a lot but I can drink a bottle of whiskey over a few hours pretty easily)
I liked it until then....
I woke up on the couch at 2pm the next day, still pretty respectably drunk and felt worse than alcohol has ever made me feel for the next several hours. I dont even normally get hangovers, but I felt dreadfull.
Never touched it since. Cant even stand the smell.
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Talk about Aversion Therapy...
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I once also got put into a closet a told to smoke a full box of cigars after my father caught me smoking once...I felt sick, rich uncle not long after gave me millions to to do the same & put me off money for life...oh no hang on...that was Brewsters Millions!
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It can turn you into some kind of Van Gogh. Wear a bridle around ears just in case...
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i don't know if the modern versions still have it, but absinthe was made with wormwood as an ingredient in some way, which is an hallicinogenic! great stuff! in bars that serve it in europe they're supposed to stamp your hand when you have a shot and they won't allow you more than two. suppose they don't want ears all over the dance floor... :roll:
there's also some way of pouring it involving heated sugar which i can't remember, it ends up going milky. must have a go at it, i have a bottle here somewhere...
ah, here it is! it's Spanish, 75%, 150 proof, and mentions wormwood, hold my hand, i'm going in!!
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there's also some way of pouring it involving heated sugar which i can't remember, it ends up going milky. must have a go at it, i have a bottle here somewhere...
ah, here it is! it's Spanish, 75%, 150 proof, and mentions wormwood, hold my hand, i'm going in!!
Absinthe is great fun, and definately an excellent way to get incredibly drunk.
I like it with the sugar method,
put a sugar cube on a slottet spoon
pour absinthe over it
light it the now absinthe soaked sugarlump and allow to caramelise
then pour cold water over the (still burning) sugar lump to dissolve it
drink it down
Failing that 3 parts cold water to 1 of Absinthe then drink it ;)
Just be prepaired to lose a couple of days
Theres actually a reasionably correct article on wikipedia (wel it had to happen eventually) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absinthe
If you want 3nd purist evil within the qorld of alcohol as try 120% proof (do not point out 120 is impossible I'm not talking by volume) Dominican rum.
The two most evil alcohol in the universe are in reverse order Carlsberg Special & Buckfast
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Yes. It hurt.
Kilby, stop it, please, youre bringing back some very bad memories!!!
Though I gave up on the sugar and started drinking it neat. I figured 'why the hassle'.
Take note boys and girls,
Neat Absinthe = Pain :!:
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Yes. It hurt.
Kilby, stop it, please, youre bringing back some very bad memories!!!
Though I gave up on the sugar and started drinking it neat. I figured 'why the hassle'.
Take note boys and girls,
Neat Absinthe = Pain :!:
With sugar is fine if somebody else is playing barperson (see I'm non sexist), though I could see a fair chance of accidently burning down the house after a few.
Personally I step back towards absonthe & water (Ozo makes a reasionable 2nd best BTW)
My bad memorys (or lack of memorys ) come from Tequila (admittedly it was preceeded by Triple Sec, white wine and beer)
Though I do remember a weekend in Reddich which resulted in me not drinking for 10 months afterward :(
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"WINE IS FINE BUT WHISKEY'S QUICK-AHHHHH"
what an enlightened bunch ...love all responses...Van Gogh..was it the Absinthe?my curiosity is stoked now....everything I have read seems to downplay the A...but I like legend better than fact..onward!!
anyone from the states ever ordered??seems to be illegal to buy in states, but not illegal to buy online and have shipped...I happen to love altered states, so the A is in my future..
does absinthe make the heart grow stronger??...sorry..couldnt resist
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does absinthe make the heart grow stronger??...sorry..couldnt resist
Get your coat, you're leaving :lol:
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uggh...fonder,I think..self correction!!hell, I need a shot...
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Here's easily the greatest Absinthe story I've ever heard, read if you have the time :p
http://www.tuckermax.com/archives/entries/date/the_absinthe_donuts_story.phtml#280
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Here's easily the greatest Absinthe story I've ever heard, read if you have the time :p
http://www.tuckermax.com/archives/entries/date/the_absinthe_donuts_story.phtml#280
Dosn't even know the difference between clear and milky, unless of course it never really happened
Pah, some people shouldn't be allowed out in public