I drank a bunch of Absinthe last night

[mussa]

soak a sugar cube in absinthe, light it, let it caramalize and stir it into the absinthe with some water and ice. bangin. you can find recipe's for it on internet. im not exactly sure of the mesaurements. don't drink it straight you idiots. 

[phattymatty]

mixers are for Hoydas.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

i don't even like black licorice.

[Sgt PSN]

I don't like the black licorice either.  But I luv me sum of that ingin colored stuff. 

[Seabiscuit36]

In HS the word was Jager had Deer Blood in it.     Jager does make me black out and not remember tons of shtein in a night so i'm relegated to JagerBombs

[Beermonkey]

Ha, I made absinthe about 2 or 3 years ago.  you order this kit of all kinds of herbs from overseas somewhere.  has anywhere from 6-10 bags of different shtein in it, i can't remember exactly how many.  anyway, you take half of them, they tell one which ones, and soak them in a bottle of grain alcohol in a warm sunny place for about a week or so.  then you drain it and soak the other half in the bottle in a cool dark place for about a week or so. so it takes several weeks, i can;t remember exactly how long.  at least two. 

anyway, when it was all done it got us all really farged up, but it is grain alcohol after all.  it just tasted like rubbing alcohol mixed with dirt.  pretty nasty.  but it will definitely get you trashed.

i have a bottle of the real shtein from czechoslovakia in my freezer right now.  it tastes a little better but still like butt.

I stopped by the liquor store after I bought the extract & they tell me you can't buy grain alcohol in PA anymore. I haven't even tried since college, so that was news to me. The best I could mix it with was 100 proof Absolut Vodka.

Anyway, I made the mixture about 20 minutes ago & just had my first shot. It reminded me a lot of Sambuca with a very bitter, herbal aftertaste. As of right now, I'm not seeing any fairies. I'll check back later.

[Seabiscuit36]

BM the wormwood needs to settle and marinate before it becomes a hallucinogen

[Beermonkey]

BM the wormwood needs to settle and marinate before it becomes a hallucinogen

Thanks SB. It's an extract I'm using this time & am not steeping the herbs. If I like it, I'll try out the process you're thinking of.

I understand that I'm not probably getting the full effect using the extract.

[rjs246]

THat shtein that Phatty made was awful. And yet awesome.

[Beermonkey]

THat shtein that Phatty made was awful. And yet awesome.

I had 3 so far & am probably done for tonight. My eyes are squinty & my stomach burns.

[rjs246]

Its my favorite drunk ever. Energetic like mad dog, but lucid like a few beers. Too bad about the taste. And definitely don't drink 'too much'.

[phattymatty]

I stopped by the liquor store after I bought the extract & they tell me you can't buy grain alcohol in PA anymore. I haven't even tried since college, so that was news to me. The best I could mix it with was 100 proof Absolut Vodka.

Anyway, I made the mixture about 20 minutes ago & just had my first shot. It reminded me a lot of Sambuca with a very bitter, herbal aftertaste. As of right now, I'm not seeing any fairies. I'll check back later.

yeah a lot of states don't sell it anymore.  i had my buddy who lived in MD pick me up a bottle one day.

[Eagaholic]

Wow, I just got a shipment of my favorite absinthe in from Germany and had a good sampling a couple of nights ago (and am having some now), so my eyes bugged out when I  'stumbled'  across this thread. I was posting a couple of nights ago and thought of talking about the absinthe I was drinking, oblivious about this thread.

Speaking of oblivious, here is what actually happened. I do shift work and sometimes have to change my nights and days around. I find a glass or two of absinthe, more than any other alcohol, helps me fall asleep. But, this time I had to change my going to bed time from around 6am to a more normal 1am. So on rare occasions like this, I'll take a Lunesta.

Well, I had felt a bad head cold coming on a couple days before and really needed to sleep. I took a Lunesta and about 3 glasses of absinthe (one or two more than I originally intended). What I didn't realize was, an antibiotic I had started on, interacts with Lunesta to substantially increase its effects. And also prolongs it quite a bit. Like through the next day. It felt like my mind got farged by a neighboring galaxy (but in a good way). I got seriously blitzed then had some strange and extremely vivid dreams:

I can still clearly remember the all the details of how my sister, a Miami police officer who had just graduated from some vetinary program, wiped a small amount of blood from the abdomen of a lady in a hospital bed, where the scalpel made the incision to go in and deliver a dog from inside the patient....and the really good part was when my sister's beautiful brunette asistant Christina came in and smiled at me like she wanted me, then made a comment about why don't I go with her to China. There was alot more to the dream, like when we were helping the patient onto a chair and dropped her on the floor, but this is probably more than enough detail - you get the point. That was the actual dream and, like Mussa said of his dreams, it seemed disturbingly lucid yet really interesting.

The next morning  I got up for work. I was still buzzing, but I felt fantastic, really energized. I remember looking at the sky. My head was totally clear but the sky seemed so ...alive. I couldn't stop staring at the rich color in the clouds while I was driving (don't try this at home).

Well, enough of this narrative. What I wanted to share was a few thoughts on absinthe.


- if you get it shipped in from europe pay the extra to insure it. The shipping costs alot but a friend of mine and I went in on an $450 order and it was seized in the US. It wasn't even returned to the shipper. It took a good 3-4 weeks, but we eventually got a replacement at no extra cost.  Without the insurance we would have been screwed.

- My favorite absinthe, and I've tried several so far, is 'La Clandestine' - a clear to slightly blue Swiss absinthe. It is smooth, light and tastes pretty good. You can get it courrier delivered and insured for about $90 and is a wothwhile splurge. But, be sure to get the "Charlotte" version.

- check out http://www.gumbopages.com/food/beverages/absinthe.html for who to order from, interesting history, info etc.

- I like the lower alcohol versions. To much alcohol ruins the absinthe effect, but some people don't notice anything but the alcohol anyway.

- Watch out for the Czech versions like Phatty got. They are cheaper and can get you majorly farged up but you can make an equivalent by simply dropping a Ricola into some paint thinner. I also think it caused me liver damage. Seriously.

- not real big on Jager, but I do have a great memory of it. At the official NFL tailgate party at SB 39 in Jax,  they had these awesome ice sculptures, each  about the size of 3 large refrigerators side by side. And inside there ran a meandering maze from one top corner to the opposite bottom. In one sculpture, they would pour in a bottle of Jager at the top. It would run all the way through the ice maze to a faucet at the bottom. You could have the bartender serve you or simply help yourselt to as much as you wanted. We carried those red 16 oz plastic cups. The other sculpture had Corazon repasado, that top shelf tequila with the real long thin neck. That party was unbelievable and everyone was cool. My drunk friend Jon said he ran into Jamaal Anderson and almost knocked him over. 

[Father Demon]

Wow.

That's a lot of information in that post.

[SD_Eagle5]

- if you get it shipped in from europe pay the extra to insure it. The shipping costs alot but a friend of mine and I went in on an $450 order and it was seized in the US. It wasn't even returned to the shipper. It took a good 3-4 weeks, but we eventually got a replacement at no extra cost.  Without the insurance we would have been screwed.

You weren't contacted by customs? And how did you file a claim with the USPS? Did you just say it never arrived?