Absinthe - now that it's legal again, will you drink it?

What year is this? 1998?

2007, why?

so it was banned because it met US regulations? I don't understand.

Yeah, this is about 10 years out of date.

I'm never drinking absinthe again. The hallucinations were too much. Plus, it tastes vile.

Lucid is authentic absinthe and it's brand new to the US.

so it was banned because it met US regulations?

No, it was banned due to hysteria and lies, I guess.

and was thought to contain toxic thujone, which it doesn't.

Should have been banned for being shite.

If it doesn't contain wormwood (which is the stuff that does make you hallucinate) then you might as well be drinking meths. Bleurgh.

It does contain wormwood. It's the authentic recipe. Cripes, do your research.

For you too lazy to go to visit the site fuXors:

How were you able legally to import Lucid into the US if Wormwood is illegal?

Wormwood is not illegal as long as the finished product meets applicable standards for content. We found that by adhering to the strict techniques used over a century ago, the result was not only a genuine, historically accurate product, but a product that also happens to meet US requirements relating to alcoholic beverages.
Is Wormwood responsible for hallucinations or is this a myth?

The reputation of Wormwood as a hallucinogen is largely based on the politically motivated publicity that was given to Thujone, a chemical contained in Wormwood, back in the late 1800's and early 1900's. However, modern studies have conclusively demonstrated that humans are unable to detect (or experience any effects from) the presence of Thujone when consumed in test samples containing relevant concentrations. Moreover, thanks to T.A. Breaux's modern testing of vintage bottles of Absinthe from over 100 years ago, we now know that, just as with Lucid, most of the high quality Absinthes from the 1800's would meet today's US standards for content, further discrediting the theory that Thujone had any real relevance to the Absinthe experience. In any event, we believe that if you consume Lucid responsibly and in moderation, there should be no unusual effects.
Does Lucid contain Thujone?

Lucid has been tested and it meets US and EU standards for content. It is worth noting that using modern equipment, T.A. Breaux, the distiller of Lucid, has analyzed dozens of bottles of traditional, high-quality vintage Absinthe from the Belle Époque period and has determined that quality Absinthe that was properly made typically did not have any significant Thujone content- even 100 years ago.
Is Lucid safe to consume?

As with all alcoholic beverages, Lucid should be consumed in moderation, particularly because it contains 62% alcohol. Aside from the alcohol content, however, nothing about Lucid is less "safe" than any other alcoholic beverage. We strongly recommend diluting Lucid before consuming. We always encourage our customers to drink responsibly. Moreover, never use Lucid near open flame or ignite Lucid, intentionally or otherwise - this is NOT a traditional way to prepare Absinthe and can be very dangerous.

Cripes, go back to 1998, when the big absinthe trend was already over.

Cripes, I didn't care then and don't care now, trendoid. I was just curious if there was any interest in this crap.

Absinthe - now that it's legal again, will you drink it? are you goth?

So, Klaus M. Flanger is a goth who Cliff Clavined his supposed hallucinations from thujone?

OKAY FINE I WILL DRINK IT

let me know how it is, will you?

1998 was a good year to ask about absinthe, it's true, but the belief that there is a point to be scored about the correct year to ask a fashionable question is extremely tiresome and boorish.

Most absinthe appears to be lolly water with food colouring. Often, on the label, there is a concerted effort to create the mystique of a relationship between the modern drinker and the crazed Romantic artist of fin-de-siecle Paris.

If you like ouzo, Doub's is pretty decent. La Fee is crap, as is all violently green coloured absinthe. Zelena, if you can find it, is nice and dirty. I doubt that the thujone content of any of these is capable of making a mouse hallucinate. As for the alcohol content, well, yes, that is closer to moonshine than whisky, but also harder to drink in great quantities. A joint and a glass of vodka will do far more for you if you're an artist looking for inspiration than a whole bottle of absinthe. The latter will certainly make you talk shit and put you to bed with your head spinning, and that will be the alcohol content.

If anyone's reading anything I write, I'd like to mention that thujone = hallucination is, apparently, not true and that what distinguishes Lucid from whatever came out in 1998 is the fact that it is 100% real authentic absinthe with NO thujone (because thujone was not present in absinthe and, according to tests, thujone does not make you hallucinate, anyway).

i had some the other day --- i can't remember which kind --- it smelled a little like socks but ended up tasting good.

That's not actually true - authentic 19th Century absinthe DOES have a v small amount of thujone in it, it is present in wormwood and a small quantity stays in the drink - however as you say it's not much of a hallucinogen.

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In fact, what you quoted upthread says exactly that!

quality Absinthe that was properly made typically did not have any significant Thujone content- even 100 years ago

!= does not equal "does not"!

All's I'm sayin' is whatever. Now we got the authentic shit, not the fake shit. Who's going to drink it?

Looks like you are on your own in this "shit-drinking", meinen Freund.

i suspect nobody cares enough to reply. i guess i might, but i'm in no big rush.

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Seems like it would be worth a try, especially as a fan of herbal liqueurs.

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If you want to hallucinate, $5 worth of LSD will likely do far more than any quantity of absinthe you could consume in one setting, at 1/10th the price.

where can i get some of that lsd stuff you speak of?

i'd try it. i had absinthe a few times in the czech republic but i don't it actually had wormwood in it. i'm curious about the hallucinations tbh.

though i dont recommend drinking red wine, then whiskey, then absinthe unless you want really awful colored vomit.

Absinthe - now that it's legal again, will you drink it? are you goth?

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HAHA otm.

"Come into my chamber decorated with dead roses, where we may partake of absinthe and peruse my collection of Aubrey Beardsley reproductions."

how weird that it's a goth thing. When I think of all the goths I've known my whole life, they seem mostly to be weird sober people who are unsure of their sexuality. But, then, I never did get to know them very well. I never saw them drunk or drinking, but they probably do that in the dark homemade parlor.

Where is the outrage over the black market sale of cheap Mexican Novocaine and its shameful abuse by faddish teenagers? I hear Michigan is rife with this problem.

faddish teens are getting all numb and then what?

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hell yes, i will now drink absinthe.

http://www.drinklucid.com/

absinthe tastes like someone is trying to ruin your life and no one will ever convince me anything fun can come out of it.

i think that the key is to be already pretty drunk when you drink it so you don't notice the taste as much.

also doing the sugar/spoon/lighter thing

lighter?

to light the sugar on fire.

Never did that. We always just dripped water over the sugar. I mean, not "always," because I've had exactly three glasses of this stuff in my life.

People who are basing their notion of how absinthe tastes on the Czech stuff will be pleasantly surprised by Lucid, which just tastes like a more complexly herbal, less sweet pastis (but not unsweet -- sugaring it is overkill).

me and c4rey swigged absinthe straight out of a bottle at the magician once!

Yeah, the one time I drank absinthe was at the house of two VEDDY SPo0o0o0o0oky long-time goff buddies who had bought, no kidding, SPo0o0o0oky pale-colored contact lenses for the occasion. The occasion being drinking a bottle of absinthe they ordered that cost $150-ish with shipping. Taking shots in their totally '70s grandma-looking orange fridged kitchen.

It tastes better tan Pernod FWIW. But then, my guide on when to drink Pernod is: after you've finished all the other alcohol in the house. including the mouthwash and cough syrup.

You swigged absinthe straight out of the bottle at Caffe Falai a week or so ago, the schef!

I believe Pernod was invented as an absinthe replacement after it was outlawed in, like, every civilized country in the world.

What do they do? I direct your attention to the definitve source on the WWW:Novocaine Abuse

There's some kind of 80% "black absinthe" available at a shop down the road from me. Its over $100 for a bottle so fuck that shit, but when my soon to be new flatmate was last over he bought a bottle of some $70 chzech stuff and said it got him pretty wrecked. I dont think I could stomach the stuff enough to see what it did.

You fuckin guys.

I will be buying a bottle or two of this.

Not goth. Just a Hemingway wannabe.

cripes!

i was enjoying it as a comedy get-stoned-by-drinking substitute until i decided to mix half a bottle (made up properly with sugar etc) with about an ounce of grass and woke up on new year's day (can't remember which year) staring into the fucking abyss.

seriously. never a-fucking-gain. that was dark.

I've had a bottle since Christmas 2003 which I've got about a third of the way through. It's 89.9%. I'm fairly sure it isn't 'authentic'. I pretty much couldn't give a fuck