What are the true effects of drinking ABSINTHE???!
What are the true effects of drinking ABSINTHE???
Do you really see a green fairy or do you just trip out, and how much of it do you need to drink to trip out??
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Unfortunately, the original wormwood absinthe is really difficult to get hold of now, due to its hallucinogenic nature. So you'll just get really really drunk, be careful, it's easy to get alcohol poisoning. I love Absinthe, but don't leave the top off the bottle, it will evaporate!! I always had one shot, straight, just before I went out, it gave me that happy, warm feeling in my head. Great stuff, but it can also be pretty dangerous!
u get drunk.
the stories are all made up. same as getting drunk.
It is a halucinagentic so you are not guarenteed to see any specific halucination. However since it can also kill you is it really worth the risk?
They dont sell real absinthe anymore. You can get an alcohol in Europe that is like absinthe. True absinthe though is much like mushrooms, it is a hallucinogenic.
ive drank absinthe before and i didnt see any green faries or anything for that matter. but it was a different kind of drunk then off of american stuff.
It is illegal in the US but the most immediate effect of over consumption is usally blindness or death.
Consumed moderately, you can have some serious hallucinations as well as some other not-so-desired effects usually associated with drinking. Not to mention the haavoc above and beyond normal drinking it would have on your liver and kidneys.
Be safe and just watch the musical again. You'll enjoy it.
Well if you've looked it up it says it is a highly distilled alcohol.
Alcohol makes up the majority of the drink and its concentration is extremely high, between 45% and 89.9%,[4] though there is no historical evidence that any commercial vintage absinthe was higher than 74%. Given the high strength and low alcohol solubility of many of the herbal components, absinthe is usually not imbibed 'straight' but consumed after a fairly elaborate preparation ritual.
reaally drunk
You'll feel like you're stuck in 80s Eastern Europe with your computer science professor from college. The only way to get back to Nov 5th, 1955 is to eat chocolate birthday cake.
Insanity. It's also a good wormer.
The famous people who saw fairies were drinking it ALOT! Not just in one night, but over a long period of time. I've had a bottle, it tasted like sambuca....I never hallucinated, but then again, I didnt drink more than one drink in one sitting.....And I got it from Europe. Different countries have different regulations on the wormwood content, etc. You wont find anything in the US or Canada that will make you hallucinate.
It's totally and completely false that absinthe causes hallucinations, it has been proven over and over again scientifically, either in surviving XIX century absinthe bottle either in todays modern brands of real absinthe.
Absinthe was banned because the early XX century wine producers, being threatened by the huge sales of absinthe lobbied together with religious conservative movements to forbid it under many false pretexts. Eventually, they did it. It was never banned in England, Spain and Portugal, in these two countries it is still produced today.
That hallucinogenic myth is being perpetuated by unscrupulous vendors (who make fortunes out of the ignorance of mainly american customers) and some manufacturers of a "thing" that is not absinthe. I'm talking about mainly czech producers who claim their "absinth" is "high on thujones".
Wormwood, arthemisia absintium, the plant, does in fact contain the mollecule thujone that despite looking similar to THC is not the same nor does it have the same effects. Before you had any hallucinations with thujone you would die first from it's toxicity since you had to ingest a massive ammount of it. The thing is that the very small ammounts of thujone in wormwood almost disappear completely through the process that any absinthe must suffer to be considered an absinthe: Distillation.
Further example of the ridiculousness of that myth, the aromatic plant used in some dishes, sage, has more thujone than wormwood, not enough to be toxic, of course.
So please, enjoy absinthe for what it really is: the most complex tasting drink made by Man, it can even be superior to the best red wines, and this because:
- ABSINTHE IS: Grape spirit distilled together with up to 9 different herbs, among them green anis (the main constituent), wormwood, petite wormwood, fennel, hyssop, melissa, angelica of the alps, star anis and sometimes coriander seeds. This process of slow distillation is very difficult and complex, it takes up to 18 hours of a carefully monitered distillation, a little too much temperature and it's ruined. That's why it can't be reproduced by amateurs. All spirits after distillation are clear as water, including whiskey and absinthe. Some absinthes are sold that way, others are coloured with natural herbs, so that green is simply clorophile, not some E-23758590...
-ABSINTHE IS NOT: cheap vodka with wormwood soaked in it, it would taste horrible because wormwood contains the second most bitter substance known to Man;
cheap grain alcohol artificially coloured and flavoured (the czech "absinths").
Final note, never, BUT NEVER burn a sugar cube over your absinthe, that's a fake, stupid commercial gimmick invented by the czechs in the 1990's, nobody ever drank absinthe that way in the XIX century. They drinked it this way:
- on a large, clear glass pour no more than two fingers of absinthe; then slowly, very slowly, drop by drop if you can pour ice cold water, no less than 2 parts of water to one of absinthe; you may notice your absinthe will become cloudy, opaque, it's a sign of it's authenticity. Now again very slowly and calmly, proceed with the tasting, absinthe is not to be stupidly gulped down like a shot, it must be appreciated with ease so that all the subtle flavours may toy with your pallate.
Cheers