Just got a bottle of absinthe for xmas. The brand is called Lucid - http://www.drinklucid.com - just wondering if anyone has tried some. It's about $60/bottle, wondering if I should save it for a special occasion or just crack it open, enjoy it now, and buy some more.

12/25/2007 10:13:46 AM

was it recently legalized in the US?

12/25/2007 10:36:55 AM

thou shall not incriminate thyself

12/25/2007 10:50:28 AM

you can crack it open any time. nothing is going to happen except getting drunk. it will probably be a different drunk than you are use to, but you arent getting high as hell

12/25/2007 11:03:46 AM

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"you can crack it open any time. nothing is going to happen except getting drunk. it will probably be a different drunk than you are use to, but you arent getting high as hell "

12/25/2007 11:34:48 AM

No, Absinthe is not legal in the US.

12/25/2007 11:53:57 AM

^

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"In 2007 the first legally available absinthe has been approved for sale in the United States. These brands must pass TTB testing, which is performed by the Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry method[65] and TTB considers a product to be thujone-free if the FDA's test measures less than 10ppm (equal to 10mg/kg) thujone.[66] "

12/25/2007 11:59:05 AM

^^Yes, it is.

12/25/2007 12:04:56 PM

^^That is only legal because it is less potent..

Sell the $60 absinthe for $50, but mescaline on wakeforest, just past kanki/redlobster/food dog, see Sanat/jesus for real on christmas. Or just buy half a bottle of vic10s... Whichever part of the abinsthe you like best.

12/25/2007 12:39:49 PM

The bottle looks dope.

I WOULD SAVE IT UNTIL YOU RETURN TO RALEIGH

12/25/2007 5:02:43 PM

this thread just cost me 94 bucks

Order Number: XXXXX
Date Ordered: Wednesday 26 December, 2007

Products
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2 x Clandestine Charlotte Absinthe 53abv 70cl (CLANDXXXX) = £69.90
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World Zone Rates (Shipping to United States: 2.6 kg(s)): £24.95
Sub-Total: £69.90
Handling (included in displayed price): £10.41
Total: £94.85

12/26/2007 2:31:13 AM

Do those get converted (british pounds?)? I've never bought anything foreign online, but if it does...sucks

12/26/2007 3:09:27 AM

yah. gonna try for 6-8 bucks a glass from friends to recoop some of the cost.

[Edited on December 26, 2007 at 3:30 AM. Reason : 4.00/glass = what i paid]

12/26/2007 3:30:14 AM

Haha, it's so crazy how expensive it is here in the US. I have a nice bottle of French Absinthe that only cost $20 but I bought it from St. Martin. It's nothing special like a lot of people make it out to be tho, just really potent licorice tasting alcohol.

12/26/2007 7:47:52 AM

its a type of absinthe, but it doesn't have wormwood in it (which is the trippy shit). Even most European countries are banning the real deal shit, since there is a direct link to serious health problems. It tastes like a weird, nasty licorice and it'll get you drunk in a hurry, but it'll also knock you out quick.

fyi, you can buy the materials for making your own batch at most any brew shop and liquor store, its pretty easy to do.

[Edited on December 26, 2007 at 9:32 AM. Reason : you need to get some sugar cubes too.]

12/26/2007 9:30:48 AM

apparently charlotte is some dank shit, doesn't taste anything like the nasty licorice bottles and is meant to be consumed with a couple ounces of water and some ice only.

12/26/2007 2:33:16 PM

god, absinthe is nasty, i had some in the czech republic

but its cool when they light it on fire and caramelize the sugar

12/26/2007 2:38:42 PM

^^read up on that stuff, and it looks to be some special swiss recipe, but the real deal...said they just lifted a 100 year ban on wormwood a few years ago.

"when prepared with cold water will louche" whatever that means.


are there not any problems shipping that to the US? i know you can get/make absinthe here, but none with wormwood.

12/26/2007 2:52:28 PM

a buddy of mine suggested the site I used. He's had repeat orders and none have ever failed customs. I'll let you know how my order goes.

[Edited on December 26, 2007 at 3:27 PM. Reason : .]

12/26/2007 3:27:01 PM

i've drank it before--it tastes like chartreuse, but nastier, and doesn't do anything but get you drunk....save your money

12/26/2007 11:25:23 PM

lucid or charlotte?

12/26/2007 11:47:33 PM

absinthe w/ wormwood

[Edited on December 27, 2007 at 1:04 AM. Reason : it was in spain, i don't remember the brand]

12/27/2007 1:03:32 AM

i drink mine in a glass on fire with sugar (on fire) mixed with some water.


i even tried mixing it into gatorade. the taste of it.

12/27/2007 1:40:18 AM

well i plan on selling it to idiots for enough to make my money back on the bottle. i'll see how differently inebriated i get. swiss shit > spain shit

[Edited on December 27, 2007 at 2:17 AM. Reason : .]

12/27/2007 2:16:34 AM

nm

[Edited on December 27, 2007 at 9:14 AM. Reason : dd]

12/27/2007 9:14:16 AM

i had some about 10 months ago at a party...a friend of mine had brought a bottle back from either mexico or costa rica or something...it was red though, not green...we had been drinking beer and liquor all night anyway and i only took one shot of absinthe, but what i really remember was you know how when you take a shot of liquor it burns your mouth for a few seconds...well the absinthe burns your throat for a few MINUTES...other than that i do recall getting a little more than just an alcohol buzz

also the reason van gogh went crazy is because instead of using green food coloring to color it like they do nowadays, back in the day they used copper sulfate for the green color...you do not want to ingest copper sulfate

also when we drank it we didnt properly cool it over ice like you're supposed to, we just had straight shots in dirty glasses

12/27/2007 10:17:54 AM

I'm going to Prague at the end of February so I'm sure I'll have some there

I've had Andoran absinthe before... and Polish stuff

12/27/2007 1:24:51 PM

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"its a type of absinthe, but it doesn't have wormwood in it (which is the trippy shit). Even most European countries are banning the real deal shit, since there is a direct link to serious health problems"

very true so the Absinthe sold in the US is not REAL Absinthe. I've had some of the REAL Absinthe with Worm Wood and it was a wild time

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"but its cool when they light it on fire and caramelize the sugar"

they used to put opium on the sugar cube back in the old days

12/27/2007 3:26:37 PM

placebo is an interesting thing

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"According to the Treasury Department's Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, U.S. law prohibits absinthe that contains over 10 parts per million of thujone, the active ingredient in wormwood. Wormwood is the plant that makes absinthe absinthe -- with its mythic tales of hallucination and belle epoque debauchery. But here's the thing: Just about all absinthe has less than 10 parts per million of thujone and perhaps always did. The ban existed mainly because there had been no way to prove otherwise. Until now. In fact, New Orleans-born chemist Ted Breaux, creator of the new Lucid absinthe, has used modern technology to test bottles from the late 19th century to show that properly made absinthe contained very little thujone. "

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/04/AR2007090400430.html

[Edited on December 27, 2007 at 4:16 PM. Reason : .]

12/27/2007 4:16:16 PM

FYI, Grandmaster, that's £94, not $94. I'm not sure what the exchange rate is right now, but last time I checked it was about £1 = $2 so you'll probably be spending a little more than that.


A few years ago some friends went to Mexico for Spring Break and got a bottle of Absinthe. I didn't have any, but they drank a whole bottle. They mostly just got drunk like they would with any alcohol, but one thing that did stand out, both of them got this giant vein popping out on their forehead. I lolled.

12/28/2007 9:47:41 AM

I had an Absinthe party 3 weeks ago. We had 1 bottle that I bought in DC, and 3 bottles from Prague. The party was awesome!

btw - you aren't going to trip for anything, you just get drunk. You will only "dance with the ferry" if you use a wormwood kit and add more to the bottle.

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"No, Absinthe is not legal in the US."

haha, yeah right - it's been legal for a little while now... there's just a threshold they can't pass with wormwood agents

12/28/2007 12:25:21 PM

terball its obvious you read through the thread by the comments you chose to respond to, so why would you feel it necessary to repeat information that has already been thoroughly vetted?

12/28/2007 2:02:42 PM

"dance with the ferry"

12/28/2007 2:32:19 PM

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"terball its obvious you read through the thread by the comments you chose to respond to, so why would you feel it necessary to repeat information that has already been thoroughly vetted? "

shut the fuck up

12/28/2007 3:05:12 PM

Yeah Wraith exchange rate is about 1:2. A buddy of mine went in with me and picked up a bottle as well so I could have a break on shipping.

Overall it's about 93.92/ea shipped for two bottles of Charlotte or about 108.xx shipped for one bottle.

I've since come to the conclusion (by intarweb readings only atm) drinking good quality absinthe is just about getting a very clean headed buzz going before you start your night. It's almost as if you'd be thinking "Holy shit I'm drunk but lets do some roket syunce. Or even better...Drive to so and so's!" Seems a bit like potential for disaster if people were shifaced from absinthe but not sloppy enough to avoid driving, BAC could bite you in the ass.

12/28/2007 4:31:01 PM

shit would knock me out. closest thing I could compare it to is taking a few swigs of nyquil and drinking on top of that.

12/28/2007 4:35:59 PM

Absinthe Party At The Fly Honey Warehouse

12/28/2007 4:52:40 PM

^ yeah, we named our party off that song - one of my roomates listens to that shit

12/28/2007 7:06:26 PM

i sold a small bottle i smuggled back from prague to a friend for $75

it cost me $7 in prague

i used to live in a small town in france that was famous for it's absinthe bars, although the real stuff was still illegal the last time i was there

12/29/2007 1:47:34 AM

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[Edited on December 29, 2007 at 2:59 AM. Reason : ]

12/29/2007 2:46:03 AM

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"Your item arrived in the United States at JOHN F. KENNEDY APT/NEW YORK at 4:13 AM on December 29, 2007. Information, if available, is updated every evening. Please check again later."

woot. maybe it's here for new years :x

12/30/2007 5:06:54 PM

yay!

ferries will be danced with atop the calm water tonight!

12/31/2007 3:49:21 PM

anyone actually interested in checking out absinthe for the first time should just buy a bottle or two of some past winners of the Absinthiades like La Fee, Deniset, or the classic Versinthe

12/31/2007 10:56:12 PM

Absinthe tastes like Jager and crushed up advil. Its like a bitter-er version. Whenever I drank it (cruise ships, the occasional import from a friend) I just got drunk but with more blurrieness if that makes sense. Like the colors melt together a little bit, not like acid or shrooms or anything, but noticeable.

1/1/2008 1:23:09 PM

also, you mix it with cold water, it will turn milky color, you dont drink it straight

1/1/2008 3:17:01 PM

yeah the shit i have louches really well. I was drinking it 1:5 last night, but only had a few glasses to start the night off. I got drunk off of other alchohol.

1/1/2008 5:35:00 PM

i once worked at a restaurant and the kitchen manager would drink absinthe in her Coke throughout the day. i dont mean just a little bit either, that shit was strong

i only found out, because we used these styrofoam cups with lids and straws in the kitchen... i grabbed her drink once by accident took a sip and was like:

*SPLLLLLLBBBBT* AAAAGH! WHAT THE FUCK!

she was like "oh, that's just absinthe. its medicinal"

i was like, okay

1/1/2008 7:35:28 PM

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"La Fee"

thats what i brought back

i think either 2 or 3 bottles.

still have one left.

1/1/2008 11:18:23 PM

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Xc1PHk9FhIk

1/2/2008 12:37:04 AM

I don't know what kind of friends some of you are. I'd personally never bring back items cheap and sell them to friends for a profit.

1/3/2008 11:04:05 AM