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quick google:
http://brewery.org/library/absfaq.html
i.e. by dropping opium onto a sugar cube, pouring the absinthe over it and setting it on fire so the opium-soaked sugar cube melts into the absinthe.
I always thought it was the opium that produced the hallucenogenic effect.
I tried to drink a bottle of the crappy green stuff until I passed out after about a quarter of it. Still alive though
We have a bottle from mexico in sitting in our flat almost finished. There is a small worm in the bottle which is traditional for mezcal. I've heard the myths that eating this leads to hallucinogenic effects but just wondering if there's any truth behind that at all?
I'm gonna eat it some night just for the craic. Worms
http://www.tastings.com/spirits/tequila.html
No - more than 3 shots wont kill you. Just a lot of bars dont wanna serve you too much of it and get you sloppy drunk all over their establishment (or at least thats the way they run things around here).
No - modern mass produced absinthe wont make you halucinate as it doesnt have the same ingredients as the traditional stuff.
Yes - its pretty powerful as far as booze goes and has put me on my ass a number of times. (NYE 2002 - 6 shots along with anything else i could swallow....passed out for 2 hours in the corner of the pub. was fine afterwards suprisingly)
But it's vile.
Well, I have drunk worse tasting stuff.
Yeah ive noticed that you can buy it from places over in Europe mainly France and Eastern Europe. From what ive heard, the best tasting absinthe comes from France and the terrible stuff is from Eastern Europe. The stuff from east Europe is supposidly horrible because its basically vodka with some herbs in it, which may include some of the original ones.
But I should note that there are a few just added types of Czech absinthe at absinthesupply.com. Lisse has extra low alcohol content (30%), but double (20 mg/thujone) the strength, I assume so you can feel the herbal effects before you get too wasted to notice. The other (ZELE Premium) is a new record in thujone content: a whopping 111 mg and 151 proof! Wow...that'll get you wasted with a few capfulls...
...at least it had better be good for a whopping $200 USD...
It better be fricken amazing.... for that price. you can go out and buy a crap load of other stuff for that expense.
:yes: Its the wormwood, the active compound of which is a turpine called thujone, which is a psychoactive convulsant and can apparently, in sufficient regular quantities, cause toxicity . There is a vault on Erowid if you want to read up.
It was traditionally served with sugar over a spoon simply because, as many of you have pointed out, it is very bitter and tastes vile.
I've had the real deal and didn't rate it. I think by the time you get any effect from the wormwood, your already pissed right up and being sick. I think you'd have to have a serious ability with alcohol for it to be any good.
I'm sorry to be a bit blunt, but thats rubbish, there is no 'mescaline' worm.
The worm in Mezcal is just that, a worm, it wont really do anything, I've had a couple, they are quite odd and feel quite strange in the mouth. But they do not make you trip, get you more drunk, make you do anything really.
Yes my old man brought back a bottle once, and led us to believe it was hallucinogenic. My mate and I drank the whole bottle and ate the worm thinking we were going be tripping, instead we just got pissed and ill.
Tequilla's tastes worse than wormwood. :yuck:
No! Tequilla is a great spirit, it goes well in coctails.
fuck it
Where did that go? I am to get broadband at home soon ish, I havent DL it yet due to crappy dial up, but I will.
You're fucking quick aint you?
That was up for all of a second. It was meant to be a PM, but I fucked it up and posted it in this thread.
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I've drank it in belfast before but i had been drinking wine and cider before i drank it, was well pissed but not as strong as the stuff i got in the canaries.
Bear in mind I was already pilled off my tits and had a few drinks already - as soon as the stuff hit my gut I hurled.
It burned like fuck and I had trouble breathing for a minute or so for all the fumes. IT was fuckign horrible.