Absinthe Rocks!!!
 

This is best alcohol ever. Drink it.

Ever had Hypnotic???? Now THAT stuff is good.

I hear that it's very expensive.

And illegal to buy in the US. The people I know who have had absinthe got it from other countries.

This may no longer be the case, as this absinthe experience was about 5 years old.

Hypnotic is tasty.... but that's because it only has a tiny bit of alcohol in it...

Isn't hypnotic that cheap crappy looking mixed drink they sell in liquor stores? IF not then there is something with the same name.

I have only one thing to say about absinthe. It takes a lot to keep it down. The taste is...AW-FRIGGING-FUL! And it's not only illegal in the US, but in Europe most absinthe is fake. Of course I think cactus juice tastes MUCH MUCH worse and that doesn't even compare to smokables like salvia which are painful.

-Rudey
--So I hear biznotches!

absnith is the spelling for the native language. I'm part Bohemian so good for my ancestors for mixing alcohol and wormwood.

I'm sorry, Billy! I let my personal spelling compulsion interfere with my Mod duties. Let me know if you want me to change it back :)

oooh I SOOO want to try absinthe!!!! when I go to israel this summer, I'm totally trying it!

It's an aniseed taste.

p.s. this is to someone on this thread, I was kidding the other night; just a joke that didn't work.

<reads article...> What a charming man!

Actually, absinthe is illegal in the U.S., but there is a bottled drink they sell here that contains a liquor made from the same thing absinthe is made from...I know that's really vague but I was reading about it and it's been available here ever since Moulin Rouge fever was going on.

And yes, hypnotic does not have a lot of alcohol in it, but it's good good good. A chaser, if you will.

Anisette drinks, such as Herbsaint, Pernod, ouzo, raki, anis and sambuca are acceptable substitutes for 'The Green Muse', also known as abisinthe.

Herbsaint is the closest one can get to abisinthe without running afoul of importation laws.

Absinthe or Absinth is an aquired taste to say the least. It's legal up here but expensive to say the least, but more-so it is very difficult to find a bar or club that serves it right (perferated spoon with the sugar cube and all). If you have it poured straight or "neat" then it does taste like crap, but if you have it done right the taste is completely different... the carmilized sugar really adds to it.

don't get me started on absinthe!! my friend brought me back a bottle from Prague and i tried to serve it using instructions i found on a couple of websites. I can't remember it exactly anymore but it involved pooring it over a sugar cube and some ice water or something like that. It was suppose to turn a pearlized color and never did. It tasted disgusting and its effects were non-distinguishable from those after a beer or two. Unless I got bad stuff it was highly over-rated.

Actually you were supposed to take a spoon with perferations in it (holes in the spoon) and use a lighter, or candle to then melt the sugar cube, letting the carmilizaed sugar then drip into Absinthe...

Its cool, I thought I mispelled when I posted. I just said that to correct myself. Change back if you'd be so kind.

Absinth versus Absinthe.
One is a brand name, one is the correct generic name. By brand name I mean a producer uses it to refer to theirs. Will get back to you which way round it is.

...two minutes later:
Q. Why the different spelling of Absinth / Absinthe?
A. Absinthe with the "e" is the French spelling, but since 1914 Absinthe in France has been illegal, so most production of Absinth moved to Eastern European countries such as the Czech Republic (formerly Czechoslovakia) where they do not use the "e", so the spelling is ABSINTH.
Source: http://www.seborabsinth.co.uk/faqs/absinth.asp
(Sebor is a brand sold widely in the UK).

N.B Re the brand name/generic thing I said earlier(!), to further confuse things; it is a brand name thing for the company Sebor. I.e. Sebor Ltd. have a product the called "Sebor Absinth". Which is an absinthe as opposed to a tequila spirit.