J4CKO

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Anyone had the real stuff, have had it in clubs but not convinced, brought some back from France, suitably horrible but not sure its the real deal, how do you tell ?

fatherpierre

It's friggin horrible - had some in Switzerland when I was in the RAF.

+Doc+

Finished a bottle with mates on the plane to Prague, cant remember getting off the plane :|
It messes with your mind and should be handled with care!

mj

once at a house party, mixed with skunk. not sure which did which, or if it was a combo of the two, but probably the most spannered I have ever been

David Lock

".........makes the heart grow fonder"

mj

..... a young man went to the doctors one day complaining that everytime he broke wind, it made the sound of a 2 stroke engine.

After a thorough examination, the doctor declaired the source of the problem was due to an abcess in his rectum.

"But why do my farts sound like a motorbike engine?" asked the young man....





































The doctor replied, " It's simple, abcess makes the fart go Honda"

P1Fanatic

MJ - people get locked up for jokes that bad!

Ive had the cheapie stuff abroad in Magaluf and Tenerife which is bad enough. How anyone can drink it for pleasure I dont know. At least 4/5 pints before even thinking of downing one.

What was the Jack the Ripper film with Johnny Depp. He put a drop of rat poison on a sugar cube, lit it and then stirred it into Absinthe. Apparently the pukka way to drink it (maybe less the poison) but I wouldnt advise it.

Simon.

mj

"bad" is good!

jonc

I steer clear of the stuff. A friend brought a bottle round after he got back from Prague to a house party. I had a shot, tasted disgusting, like super concentrated chlora-septic. a few other people had a shot, didn't finish the glass so I finished it for them. After a few glasses you don't notice the taste anymore, and half an hour later, I can't remember what happened next. During the course of the party, I'd had just over half the bottle, woke up in my sick the next moring and couldn't eat or drink for 2 days.......

alcazar

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Drank it in France, the illegal stuff, when I was younger, prepared over a sugar cube etc.

Lovely stuff, and the dreams that night..........oh wow!

Alcazar

Deep Singh

Always wondered about this. Whats it fermented from?

boxst

Hello

Probably more than you want to know: http://www.gumbopages.com/food/beverages/absinthe.html

The synopsis:

"Absinthe is a strong herbal liqueur distilled with a great number of flavorful herbs like anise, licorice, hyssop, veronica, fennel, lemon balm, angelica and wormwood (the flavor of anise and/or licorice, at least in contemporary forms of the liquor, tends to predominate)."

Steve.

Freak

done properly (burnt with sugar) its lovely- still an evil drink though.

To get twatted with minimum fuss, then its your best bet

Ive lost a night or 10 to old green before........

antera309

That stuff gets you fooked. Had a couple of shots on NYE last year. Ended up wandering out of the club for no apparent reason, before 12 o'clock and without my mates, and couldn't get back in.

Ended up seeing the new year in out in the street, after spending 20 quid on a ticket for that club.

Lovely. Not.

Jamie

****e stuff what you need is real mexican spirits

Jamie

None of that tac euro crud.

Big Col

me and my mates had the proper stuff once, never again.

admittedly we had been drinking before hand. I instantly puked it back up. It burnt my throat on the way back up.

One mate went from being drunk to completely hammered in about 2 minutes in front of our eyes. Couldn't speak or walk.

Another mate went home and had a huge row with his wife. Accused her of all sorts of stuff and nearly had a fight with her. He remembers nothing of this.

To be avoided IMHO

jowl

Had one drink before I went to the pub once. Had 3 pint in the pub and was home before 11.

A Mate had 2 one after the other at a party. Had 2 other drinks and was home in bed before 9 as he couldn't walk properly. And we're taking a bloke who can drnk till the cows come home.

Good stuff

R.B

Get the 70 % stuff but be carefull it ***** with your mind

16vmarc

From Hell.

MAGIC.H

My old man (father) owned a successful pub, and a friend of his brought some back from France. This stuff was the real deal, and he had to smuggle it through customs.
When he showed it to my Dad he flipped and said "Don't go getting into that ****e! It not only mucks up your brain, but it is highly addictive!" His mate said not worry he wouldn't drink it regularly, but my Dad freaked and replied "Look! Half of the Artists in Paris were addicted to this stuff in the 1800s. Most of them either died , or went mad!"
Years later I know for a fact he still has it as an ornament in a cabinet!

J4CKO

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Tried it last night, disgusting, I had a couple of other drinks (Carling and Bacardi - yes I know girls drink, left over from Christmas - Breezers) and was pretty well hammered, its quite safe though, to horrible to contemplate till everything else has gone !

Scooby96

Prefer a nice line of Bolivian myself

+Doc+

Another stag night story, Portugal this time.
Between four of us we finished a bottle in a day, bad news again.
Only just remembered this, does that say it alll?

class_A

All you ever wanted to know:
http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/absinthe/absinthe.shtml

The stuff over here in Tesco won't have wormwood in it, it's just strong green coloured alcohol

farmer1

Had the real deal on results day had a couple of shots along with a few other spirits between 4 and 5 pm. Was completely wrecked and all over the place in a different to drunk way by 5pm the time we headed down town.

Was asleep in the pub from 6 - 7 and ended up trying it on with every single girl i know, ugly - pretty whether they had a boyfriend or not and dont remember trying it on with any of them.

Was lucky my mates realised that i was out of it when i was trying it on with there gfs else I would have been a dead man.

Had some serious appologising to do two days later after i had recovered.

Jerome

I started drinking absinthe when they started selling it in bars in London. I've also had quite a bit of the Czech stuff my brother brings back from Czech. Yum yum!

I can vouch that absinthe and Red Bull is not for the fainthearted.

jonc

Has the same octane rating as Optimax.....