Absinthe?

[TheLordShaper]

Hey guys

So I was in Mexico earlier this month drinking myself into a blissful vacation and I came across a club serving absinthe. Being in Mexico, I figure why not and got a few shots. Now I am by all accounts a liquor and or beer snob, but I admit to knowing absolutely nothing about the green fairy. So I have a few and damn, this stuff is like nothing I have had before. So to my question, what is a considered a good to medium range absinthe that I can mail order here in the states? I really want to add this to my bar now that I have a taste for it but before I go sending off a bunch of cash to Europe for drinks I know nothing about, I though I'd ask for some giudence. Any suggestions?

Please pardon the spelling, Im a bit out of it and lazy tonight.

TLS

[Marmee_Noir]

There are quite a few German sites that will ship Absinthes to the US and have a good track record with customs.. It is legal in the US but heh the legalities are so trippy. Really your best bet is a trip to Canada if you want something mild. I hear it's completely legal there but have yet to see any really good Absinthes.

By medium range Absinthe what are you talking about? Alcohol content or thujone content! There are so many different types! High, medium and low alcohol levels, high, medium, low and no thujone levels, types that louch, red, green , blue absinthes and so on. Here is a link to one of my fav sites. Has buying guides and history and blah blah blah.. lol http://www.feeverte.net/

P.S Hell you can even buy Absinthe on ebay, course it's for "collectors purposes only".. lol

Heh wouldn't happen to know where you can get some real Chartreuse? lol

[Saint Germain]

Hallo,

try Absinth-Vetrieb-Lion or Andreas Mielecke's Absinthe24 they have good quality and the prices are ok.

enjoy la Fée Verte

[Shade Everdark]

There are quite a few German sites that will ship Absinthes to the US and have a good track record with customs.. It is legal in the US but heh the legalities are so trippy. Really your best bet is a trip to Canada if you want something mild. I hear it's completely legal there but have yet to see any really good Absinthes.

By medium range Absinthe what are you talking about? Alcohol content or thujone content! There are so many different types! High, medium and low alcohol levels, high, medium, low and no thujone levels, types that louch, red, green , blue absinthes and so on. Here is a link to one of my fav sites. Has buying guides and history and blah blah blah.. lol http://www.feeverte.net/

P.S Hell you can even buy Absinthe on ebay, course it's for "collectors purposes only".. lol

Heh wouldn't happen to know where you can get some real Chartreuse? lol

A guy I used to know bought it at some Ann Arbor liquor shop, if that helps. It tasted absolutely revolting, however. I'd not touch it again unless I got paid with at least four figures.

[Head Wreck]

http://www.alandia.de

paul (AKA Paper Hearts) used to buy from here

[Marmee_Noir]

A guy I used to know bought it at some Ann Arbor liquor shop, if that helps. It tasted absolutely revolting, however. I'd not touch it again unless I got paid with at least four figures.

Hmm prolly was junk or an imitation Absinthe. Specially if it tasted bitter? Plus if it was prepared right with the sugar cube it should of been decent.. Real Absinthe doesn't have a bitter taste to it, erm or least good Absinthe doesn't. As for Absinthe in the US heh the laws are so trippy, I wouldn't even waste money on the stuff you'd find around here..

P.S Head Wreck listed a very good site. http://www.alandia.de I've scoped it out many of times plotting which pretty lil green fairy I wanted... lol

[DJ Nocker]

talk to sypher on the boards.

[Marmee_Noir]

A guy I used to know bought it at some Ann Arbor liquor shop, if that helps. It tasted absolutely revolting, however. I'd not touch it again unless I got paid with at least four figures.

Laughs* Heh, by the way were you talking about Absinthe or Chartreuse? lol I should pay more attention when posting in the early hours of the AM.. Either or I highly doubt it was real!

I'd love to get my hands on "real" Chartreuse made by the Carthusian Monks in France! Yeah heh, fat chance I know!

[Shade Everdark]

Laughs* Heh, by the way were you talking about Absinthe or Chartreuse? lol I should pay more attention when posting in the early hours of the AM.. Either or I highly doubt it was real!

I'd love to get my hands on "real" Chartreuse made by the Carthusian Monks in France! Yeah heh, fat chance I know!

Heh, I was referring to the Chartreuse. As to its veracity, I'm sure I couldn't tell, especially as it was so long ago, but considering everything else that shop had, I'd not be surprised it was real.

[Marmee_Noir]

Ann Arbor you say.. lol Couldn't be a bit more specific as to what shop he got it at? Wouldn't hurt to scope it out.

I should clarify what I meant by "real" stuff. What your friend had could of been a Chartreuse in the sense of the 130 herbs and flowers. I"m after the stuff made in the Chartreuse mountain range of France by, well what use to be made by the Carthusian Monks themselves. I know the original 9century old distillery is still operating but I highly doubt the holy men are making it anymore.. lol

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

Um, Absinthe is bitter no matter the quality. Hence the sugar cube. Real absinthe is made with Wormwood and there is no such thing as a non-bitter wormwood. Wormwood is used in the process of making Pelinkovac and Vermouth to give them thier flavor... two drinks known for their bitterness.

taken from the wormwood entry from wikipedia:

Its active substances include silica, two bitter elements (absinthine and anabsinthine), thujone, tannic and resinous substances, malic acid, and succinic acid.

Do a bit of research and you will find that absinthine is considered by some to be the most bitter substance known to mankind.

it boils down to this.. if your Absinthe is anything but bitter out of the bottle, it already had sugar added during bottling or it's not real Absinthe.

[Head Wreck]

hence the amount of suger added when prepared (unlwess your drinking it the welsh method)

[Marmee_Noir]

Heh, dear I have done research and tried a few Absinthes. While I don't even attempt to say I'm a know it all of the drink. By the method Absinthe is made it neutralizes the bitter taste of wormwood..

Heh, this should explain it better than I can...

"20. Isn't absinthe terribly bitter?

No. Good absinthe has a very mild and pleasant bitterness, certainly less than that found in any moderately hopped beer. Wormwood is indeed the second most bitter plant on earth (after rue), but the bitter constituents in wormwood are purposely excluded from the product in properly made absinthe - only the desirable principles of the wormwood plant, notably its intense fragrance, make it into the liquor. The legend that the French sat at café tables by the thousands sugaring their absinthe to kill its nasty bitterness is due entirely to ignorance propounded by people who’ve never tasted absinthe, and assumed it must be bitter because there's wormwood in it. Nineteenth century drinkers had a far sweeter tooth than we do today, and even then, many drank absinthe without added sugar"

And P.S- Wormwood isn't even the main ingredient.. Anise is. Which has a strong licorice flavor. Then fennel. Hell many types of Absinthe don't even have wormwood in them.

[Marmee_Noir]

Looking up a single ingredient does not explain the end product. I'm not disputing the fact that wormwood is extremely bitter I'm just saying from my experience and from the massive amount of reading I've done on the lil green fairy, that a good Absinthe should not be bitter, specially done with sugar.

You should check out this site. It has quite a bit of info and historical info. Least more than you would get from wikipedia.

http://www.feeverte.net/faq-absinthe.html#B

[Nienna]

We get our Absenthe from New York. It's called Lucid and it's the real deal. Hefty cost at $40 a bottle, but worth every green penny!

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

Absinthe don't even have wormwood in them

Then they are not Absinthe. Wormwood is what makes Absinthe... well Absinthe. Absinthe being a play on the scientific name for Wormwood.

[Head Wreck]

agree with gaf here.

all other stuff is pernod (named after louis pernod, the doctor who first started marketing absinthe comercially as a drink rather than a medication for intestinal parasites).

i thought absinthe is illegal to be produces in the US.

anyhow. my advice. AVOID distilled absinthe's, and avoid the kits, the kits run the risk of messing the mixtures, and go look up the nasty on wormwood poisoning its really not pleasant,

another thing, use it as a treat, its expensive, even here where its a supermarket shelf item. and lots of it will give you mental issues. IIRC the active substance in wormwood is 1 or two molocules out from the active part of marajuana. i'm also iffy on how accurate police "handy" drug test kits will tell diff between absinthe and weed. after a good night on absinth i know its in my system for a week or so. i usually still feel the fuzzyness of it (mind you i mix some killer absinthe)

[Nienna]

It used to be illegal in the states buit no longer. The stuff you can buy state-side is less alcoholic though. It does have wormwood in it however.

[Head Wreck]

alcohol is never the punch. when preped absinthe can be 8-10% usually its the theojine (SP?) that gets people looking sober but talking to inanimate things they bump into

[spacin]

The liquor store near me just got some in.

They're all excited about it.

Guess they imported it. Forgot what brand though.

[Steven]

so then the real question is who's got some?

and can we have some?

[Destroit]

omfg....it's legal here now? Yay! I wanna try it, I've wanted to for a long time but wasn't sure how to go about sending away for it overseas. wait...is it legal in michigan though or just some other states? Or is it legal all over America?

[Steven]

omfg....it's legal here now? Yay! I wanna try it, I've wanted to for a long time but wasn't sure how to go about sending away for it overseas. wait...is it legal in michigan though or just some other states? Or is it legal all over America?

let's have an absinthe hookup then!