BTW - has anyone had this before - Absente, a cousin of Absinthe

[LynneSin]

http://www.crillonimporters.com/Entr2-Absente.html

I found this while perusing my favorite liquor store in Wilmington (Heck, Ramsey was with me when I found it).

Basically Absente is identical to Absinthe except they use a cousin of the wormwood which get makes this liquor legal in the United States. They even market it with a 'Absinthe' spoon attached to the box.

Has anyone bothered trying this? It was like $35 a bottle here in Delaware

[bif]

1. This is what I've heard...

It's supposed to taste just like the original Absenthe but it doesn't have the semi-hallucinogenic qualities of the original.

[Loonman]

2. Doesn't do much

But give you a syrupy, sickie, drunk.

Get the real deal from the Czech Republic. Super expensive because of the currently weak dollar.

[GumboYaYa]

4. A buddy of mine bought four bottles and had them

shipped to the U.S. with no problem. He paid $90.00 a bottle. They came with little absynthe snifters that look almost like a water pipe.

From what we have seen, people react very differently to absynthe. I only know one person who has claimed to actually hallucinate from drinking the stuff. Generally, you completely lose the ability to judge time and distance.

[Loonman]

6. Yeah

If your tolerance level is low, you'll get too drunk to properly experience the Wormwood. You could also quite easily give yourself alcohol poisoning or the Wormwood could poison you if you're not careful.


Van Gogh cut his ear off after a 3 day Absinthe binge. Shelley, Byron, and Coleridge were all fans of better living through chemistry.

Coleridge's greatest works were written while he was on Absinthe.

I think it's an interesting thing, but the new hipness of it is kind of odd.

[GumboYaYa]

7. My wife wrote her Masters thesis on Absynthe in Art.

Tolouse Latrec was another big absynthe drinker. Many of his works are unfinished because of his excessive drinking. There was a whole school of artists that grew up around the absynthe houses in Monmartre.

If you look at Degas' "Absynthe Drinker" you see some of the first abstraction in modern art. The table she is seated at has no legs.

[RandomKoolzip]

3. Yes. We use it at the Belgian restaurant at which I cook.

We put Absente in the garlic butter for the Steak Frites. It smells like Anise, almost like licorice.

I was very perplexed when I saw the words "refined Absinthe" on the label, but then I noticed that the word "wormwood" was nowhere to be found. I still wouldn't drink it (I HATE alcohol...just don't like the taste, I don't like drunkenness in general....) but were Rimbaud to come stumbling into our little Begian (en)dive in Chicago, I'd recommend he chug some Absente.

[Chicago Democrat]

5. Absinthe Basics...

Absente has a super strong anise flavour. It does not have real wormwood in it. It has an American relative of that herb, which contains less Thujone than regular wormwood.

Save your money and buy real absinthe from France! Thats what I do

La Fee' Verte!

The Green Fairy! Take me away....

J'adore l'absinthe!

The best in the world, made in Paris...

http://www.eabsinthe.com

La Fee' Absinthe - Made in Paris

Only 29.95 GBP 20GBP shipping! (ouch thats almost $100!) Im trying to limit to one bottle per month. Ouch, the dollars fall is most taxing! Remember when the British Pound was only $1.05? (1985) What a tragedy our monetary policy is for France.

Yes, well Oscar Wilde was always begging and borrowing money; his writings occured only because he had to fend off creditors!

Did it make Vincent Van Gogh nuts? will you cut off your own ear???

Try it! You will like it! Legal to import 2 bottles. Not sold anywhere in US

Absinthe is an ancient liqueur, based on Absinthium or Wormwood a bitter flavouring and intoxicant. It is bitter in taste and you can taste it under the anise/licorice flavour that is added to make it absinthe. Also other herbs. Wormwood has Thujone in it, a drug-like substance that affects the nervous system. It is like an anestetic kindof for the brain. Similar to pot, but more cerebral. Dangerous if taken too much. Never drink more than 3 absinthes in an evening or you will be sorry tommorrow.

Absinthe was the drink of famous artists in the 19th century was its heyday. Oscar Wilde, Paul Verlaine, Van Gogh, Toulouse LaTrec, Geo Bernard Shaw basically it was the drink of the 1890's- wwi. Watch Moulin Rougue. Absinthe is served in an elaborate ritual. A shot of absinthe (140 proof) in a tall glass, a special spoon that is pierced on top, put a sugar cube in spoon, balance on glass, pour water on top, melting sugar, 7-1 Water to Absinthe. The cocktail louches (turns cloudy, opalenscent becuase of the high alcohol) with water. I have a short essay by Aleistar Crowley about La Fee Verte, it is sublime, and rather addictive.

It was banned in the US in 1910, in the furor leading up to Prohibition (1918). It was banned in France in 1915. Basically discerning alcoholics got in trouble with absinthe (140 proof) because it tastes great and will fuck you up! But the drug part is incidental to the main thing, simple ethanol. Be careful. But please try! Remember beer has hops, a relative of Marijuana. Gin has juniper berries, thats a drug too. Jaegarmeister has codeine in it. Drugs in alcohol has a long tradition and should embraced as our cultural patrimony and wisdom from the ages!

I have 4 absinthe spoons now. One is a replica of the one used by Toulouse LaTrec!