I've heard of this, but never had it. Isn't it suppose to be like Mescal and really do a number on your head? No wonder you are excited.
We used to go to Canada, Manitoba to be exact. Winnepeg and St. Boniface, (Like the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul in Minnesota). They have a Winter thing there called Festival du Voyegeur. A large celebration with the fur trade theme. They have a seasonal spirit there called Caribou. A sweet liquer or high alcohol wine. I think it's made with rum, brandy and wine. All I know is we drank a lot of it, but could never get it anywhere but at Festival.
there is an element in the wormwood that is considered to be psychedelic. not everyone concurs with this. i will let you know, thought it is out of my price range, at 75.00 a bottle! maybe santa will bring some.
I had some that was smuggled in a few years ago. It's not like acid or anything. The bad effects of wormwood were, back in the day, attributed to constant and abundant use of the stuff over a long time. Well, how is that different from the alcohol in it, I ask? It's been legalized again because, after 100 years, someone figured out that there wasn't that much of the wormwood derivative in it in the first place. Now, if only we could get the government to look that objectively at another illegal substance, eh?
I hope they market it under a better name than "Terminus" though. that seems......foreboding.
joe~i haven't had it-yet! there's a great restaurant called absinthe in s.f., and now they can live up to the name.
the new name is "verte". apparently, a few prospective names were turned down by the govt. maybe if we dring absinthe, we will all write like oscar wilde. or hemingway. or not!
AWESOME! Brian's going to want some for sure! I was going to try and smuggle some in from Canada over the summer, but I chickened out and only smuggled in the Cuban cigar!!!
About four years ago, I went to a sometime gay bar in Kentucky for absinthe. It was illegal in Ohio but legal across the river in Kentucky! Of course, I only watched everyone else drink it ;-)
My experience of absinthe is that it isn't so much psychedelic, as very 'speedy'. Combine this with how alcoholic it is, and that's the recipe for a long, messy night!
Here is a bottle of St. George's Absinthe Verte. It isn't called Terminus, this time around!
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I've heard of this, but never had it. Isn't it suppose to be like Mescal and really do a number on your head? No wonder you are excited.
We used to go to Canada, Manitoba to be exact. Winnepeg and St. Boniface, (Like the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul in Minnesota). They have a Winter thing there called Festival du Voyegeur. A large celebration with the fur trade theme. They have a seasonal spirit there called Caribou. A sweet liquer or high alcohol wine. I think it's made with rum, brandy and wine. All I know is we drank a lot of it, but could never get it anywhere but at Festival.
Peace to All.
there is an element in the wormwood that is considered to be psychedelic.
not everyone concurs with this. i will let you know, thought it is out of my price range, at 75.00 a bottle!
maybe santa will bring some.
I had some that was smuggled in a few years ago. It's not like acid or anything. The bad effects of wormwood were, back in the day, attributed to constant and abundant use of the stuff over a long time. Well, how is that different from the alcohol in it, I ask? It's been legalized again because, after 100 years, someone figured out that there wasn't that much of the wormwood derivative in it in the first place. Now, if only we could get the government to look that objectively at another illegal substance, eh?
I hope they market it under a better name than "Terminus" though. that seems......foreboding.
joe~i haven't had it-yet! there's a great restaurant called absinthe in s.f., and now they can live up to the name.
the new name is "verte". apparently, a few prospective names were turned down by the govt. maybe if we dring absinthe, we will all write like oscar wilde. or hemingway. or not!
Damn! Wouldn't you know it? I stop drinking and they finally make this stuff! Oh well... Cheers!
AWESOME! Brian's going to want some for sure! I was going to try and smuggle some in from Canada over the summer, but I chickened out and only smuggled in the Cuban cigar!!!
About four years ago, I went to a sometime gay bar in Kentucky for absinthe. It was illegal in Ohio but legal across the river in Kentucky!
Of course, I only watched everyone else drink it ;-)
My experience of absinthe is that it isn't so much psychedelic, as very 'speedy'. Combine this with how alcoholic it is, and that's the recipe for a long, messy night!
Annie - don't forget Poe! He was evidently very fond of the stuff, as was Van Gogh.
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