Does absinthe make you go crazy?!
Answers: should i spend 100 bucks on a bottle..or should i just get some jager..
Long term use of absinthe causes brain damage. That is why it was banned by most western countries. A few drinks shouldn't harm you. I did it, the feeling was very relaxing and pleasant, but I just wanted to take a nap an hour later. Tylenol PM does the same thing, it is a lot cheaper than $100.00 a bottle, and it doesn't come with the MASSIVE hangover. Plus, absinthe isn't the most pleasant tasting drink - that's why the sugar cubes and strainer are used. Bottom line: I would personally use the $100.00 to buy 2 or 3 very good bottles of liquor that I would actually enjoy drinking, not absinthe.
However, there is a certain wisdom gained by trying something yourself. Maybe you and 2 or 3 friends should get together and order the bottle, and when it arrives, grill some steaks, have a great meal, and then pop open the bottle to relax. You'll have pleasant evening with close friends (which is always a good time). Just plan on everyone staying there for the night, sleeping late, and having a hangover the next day.
it makes you go crazy.
no what do you think it does
Crazy like a fox.
Jager! It does get you f***ed up fast but none of that green fairy stuff or any hallucinations. Not worth the money.
Your already crazy. but then like my dad always told me. you have to be crazy to keep from going insane.
so whats wrong with crazy.?
Absinthe?
sure why not.?
No, it is the alcohol. Sage has more thujon in it than a drink of absinthe. The crap tastes gross. Don't buy it unless you really think you like drinking filtered piss.
The original version of absinthe was made with wormwood and did cause mental deterioration.
I've never tried it... however, when thinking about spending a hundred bucks on a bottle of any drink, consider this: You drink it in, you pee it out. So, basically, the hundred bucks is just a rental fee.
Go buy a glass of it at a bar. 'S gotta be cheaper.
it is a hallucinogen - and like any drug too much can cause damage - so what do you think?
you cant get true absenth in the states so if you are not getting it from someplace like Ampsterdam its probably fake. Yes it makes you crazy if you drink enough but just a bit will make you hallucinate.
If i spent $100, I'd already be crazy
Absinthe rules. Really.
You must be looking at the good stuff from the UK or France at $100 a bottle.
These guys are excellent:
http://www.absintheonline.com/
But now, I have to tell you a disquieting fact. Ouzo tastes, and even acts, like Absinthe, in that it clouds up on ice.
But still, my select friends have loved sharing a glass with me. And it may be the history, but the buzz really does seem different.
It does not make you go crazy, it was banned here because of the rumor but you drink enough of any alcohol and you will go crazy, not just absynthe though.
You can get it here now and it is just strong alcohol, I wouldn't spend 100 unless you know you like it.
If it really made people crazy do you think they would allow it to be sold everywhere else?
We always want what we can't have. Are cuban cigars better????? They are when you are told you can't have them
Jager tastes like Satan's cough syrup. I'd say go with the absinthe, even though a shot of that stuff is holy hell, but the burning makes you feel burly.
Absinthe only makes you go crazy if you're a gullible dingbat who believes the hype about absinthe. It's like alcohol, only it gives a lighter high, and you can...ok, it's hard to explain, but suffice it to say, it doesn't drive you insane. There's not enough wormwood in most of the brands now, and even when there was, it was a mess of hype. There are plenty of far more severe drugs you can put in your system that will disrupt your neurological processes far more adversely. And even those won't render you insane.
OK well if you in the states, not getting real absinthe, and that stuff is not worth 100$ better off with a nice wine and something else to drink, even real real absinthe is hard to come by in Europe, no one knows the original recipe from back in the crazy artists days, and even that stuff wouldn't so much make you crazy as just let you go on a nice trip
Jaeger is like mouthwash, but absinthe has a drug in it that makes you hyper, the alcohol removes your common sense and the drug is gonna make you do something you are most likely gonna regret. And, its illegal in the U.S.
That's what they say, but it's wrong. It simply make the mind grow fonder.
Absinthe is made from Wormwood, and yes it can make one go crazy, like Vincent van Gogh. Ouzo, Arak, and Pernod are also in this class of liqueurs, but with less of the extract. Vermouths are wines with the same flavouring. Jaegermeister is something else again, an anise based liqueur with other herbs, it can be an acquired taste but doesn't have the drug effect. Absinthe has been illegal in many countries, but you can still buy some from old stocks from time to time at great expense. If you do , use it judiciously and with great restraint. Poisoning is a real risk, a permanent psychedelic high.
[mcmuffin: You're right the headache was unpleasant! Never got that with other drinks.]
[And yes Cuban cigars and rum are much better! Smooth, sweet, and potent. Not only because they're prohibited, only in the US because of the Cuban Lobby in Florida. If the embargo was ever lifted Castro's government would fall because of the economic realities which spelled an end to Communism elsewhere.]
The precise origin of absinthe is unclear. The medical use of wormwood dates back to ancient Egypt and is mentioned in the Ebers Papyrus, circa 1550 BCE. Wormwood extracts and wine-soaked wormwood leaves were used as remedies by the ancient Greeks.The first clear evidence of absinthe in the modern sense of a distilled spirit containing green anise and fennel, however, dates to the 18th century but may be older. According to popular legend, absinthe began as an all-purpose patent remedy created by Dr. Pierre Ordinaire, a French doctor living in Couvet, Switzerland, around 1792 (the exact date varies by account). Ordinaire's recipe was passed on to the Henriod sisters of Couvet, who sold absinthe as a medicinal elixir. In fact, by other accounts, the Henriod sisters may have already been making the elixir before Ordinaire's arrival. In either case, one Major Dubied in turn acquired the formula from the sisters and, in 1797, with his son Marcellin and son-in-law Henry-Louis Pernod, opened the first absinthe distillery, Dubied Père et Fils, in Couvet. In 1805 they built a second distillery in Pontarlier, France, under the new company name Maison Pernod Fils.
Absinthe's popularity grew steadily until the 1840s, when absinthe was given to French troops as a malaria treatment.When the troops returned home, they brought their taste for absinthe with them, and it became popular at bars and bistros.
By the 1860s, absinthe had become so popular that in most cafés and cabarets, 5 p.m. signaled l’heure verte ('the green hour'). Still, it remained expensive and was favored mainly by the bourgeoisie and eccentric Bohemian artists. By the 1880s, however, the price had dropped significantly, the market expanded, and absinthe soon became the drink of France; by 1910 the French were consuming 36 million litres of absinthe per year.
Absinthe (with anise) has been consumed in Czech lands (then part of Austria-Hungary) since at least 1888, notably by Czech artists, some of whom had an affinity for France, frequenting Prague's Cafe Slavia. Its wider appeal is uncertain, though it was sold in many shops in and around Prague. There is evidence that at least one local liquor distillery in Bohemia was making absinthe at the turn of the 20th century.
Banning of Absinthe
Spurred by the temperance movement and wine makers' associations, absinthe was publicized in connection with several violent crimes supposedly committed under the influence of the drink. This, combined with rising hard-liquor consumption caused by the wine shortage in France during the 1880s and 1890s, effectively labeled absinthe a social menace.
Its critics said that
Absinthe makes you crazy and criminal, provokes epilepsy and tuberculosis, and has killed thousands of French people. It makes a ferocious beast of man, a martyr of woman, and a degenerate of the infant, it disorganizes and ruins the family and menaces the future of the country.
Edgar Degas' 1876 painting L'Absinthe (Absinthe) (now at the Musée d'Orsay) epitomized the popular view of absinthe 'addicts' as sodden and benumbed. Although he mentioned it only once by name, émile Zola described their serious intoxication in his novel L'Assommoir.
Boche had known a joiner who had stripped himself stark naked in the rue Saint-Martin and died doing the polka—he was an absinthe-drinker.
In 1905, it was reported that a man named Jean Lanfray murdered his family and attempted to kill himself after drinking absinthe. The fact that he was an alcoholic who had drank considerably after the two glasses of absinthe in the morning was overlooked, and the murders were blamed solely on absinthe.The Lanfray murders were the last straw, and a petition to ban absinthe in Switzerland was quickly signed by over 82,000 people.
Soon thereafter (in 1906), Belgium and Brazil banned the sale and redistribution of absinthe, although they were not the first. Absinthe was banned as early as 1898 in the Congo Free State (later Belgian Congo). In Switzerland, the prohibition of absinthe was even written into the constitution in 1907, following a popular initiative. The Netherlands came next, banning absinthe in 1909, followed by the United States in 1912 and France in 1915. Around the same time, Australia banned the liquor too. The prohibition of absinthe in France led to the growing popularity of pastis and ouzo, anise-flavored liqueurs that do not use wormwood. Pernod moved their absinthe production to Catalonia Spain, where absinthe was still legal slow sales in the 1960s eventually caused it to close down. However, a few small micro distilleries still exist in the area.In Switzerland, it drove absinthe underground. Evidence suggests small home clandestine distillers have been producing absinthe since the ban, focusing on Les Blanches or Les Bleues as it was easier to pretend at that time that a clear product was not absinthe. Many countries never banned absinthe, notably the United Kingdom (where absinthe had not been as popular as in mainland Europe), which eventually led to its revival.
Don't waste your money.Absinthe tastes like crap,and it doesn't make you go crazy like people say.