never could get into it. not sure what the appeal is?

>>21466419 (OP)
Mostly a meme yeah
can get well smashed but you can do that on anything really

>>21466419 (OP)
Modern absinthe doesn't have any hallucinatory effects so there's no point in drinking it

>>21466419 (OP)
The hallucination bit is a hoax. There are also a LOT of green food colored vodka pretenders.

If you get a proper one, it does louche as described. It's very anise forward, so it's not for everyone, and the real stuff is expensive. Way more expensive than it should be.

It really is a drink coasting on it's history and mythology.

>>21466419 (OP)
If you like lick her ass and anus flavors it is really enjoyable.

>>21466419 (OP)
>Is Absinthe a meme?
It was a meme 100 years ago because it allegedly contained extra poison that would get you SUPER FUCKED UP BRO and was associated with Victorian edgelord retards and art hoes.

Then it became a meme again, 100 years later, when it was suddenly "legalized" again, when in reality nobody bothered to manufacture/import it anymore because it was superseded by better drinks, but the marketers were all like DUDE THUJONE and it briefly became popular among school shooters, black trenchcoat enthusiasts, people who write erotic Tumblr stories about talking dragons, and other goths.

>>21466458
>It was a meme 100 years ago because it allegedly contained extra poison that would get you SUPER FUCKED UP BRO and was associated with Victorian edgelord retards and art hoes.

>Then it became a meme again, 100 years later, when it was suddenly "legalized" again, when in reality nobody bothered to manufacture/import it anymore because it was superseded by better drinks, but the marketers were all like DUDE THUJONE and it briefly became popular among school shooters, black trenchcoat enthusiasts, people who write erotic Tumblr stories about talking dragons, and other goths.

Absinthe was originally a medicinal liquor, until Napoleon had an issue with troops getting malaria in swampy regions.
The troops were given absinthe to help fight the malaria, since the wormwood in absinthe was a known treatment.
After the Napoleonic Wars ended, some of the French troops continued drinking absinthe as their beverage of choice.
Then Phylloxera hit France, killing grape vines, and causing a wine shortage, and absinthe took off in popularity, replacing wine and wine based beverages as the alcohol of choice.
Some of the absinthe produced, was likely cheaply made and contained poorly distilled alcohol or adulterated alcohol, containing way too much methanol, hence some of the “bad incidents” that happened due to the popularity of “absinthe”.
Similar incidents happened during the untaxed gin period in England, as depicted in Hogarth’s “Gin Lane” engravings, and this was likely the result of poorly distilled or adulterated gin as well.
Once the solution to Phylloxera was found, and the grape vines replanted, “absinthe” suddenly became an “evil” beverage, and was banned in France and certain other areas of Europe.
Thujone is the active chemical in Absinthe, and Sage oil, actually contains higher levels, but was never banned.

>>21466419 (OP)
Its great for cocktails, tons of them call for you to rinse a glass in absinthe

>>21466419 (OP)
I drank it once at some touristy absinthe house in New Orleans and it was alright. Like a more mellow and earthy Aguardiente.
It is very high proof so it will do a good job getting you plastered. But it is a novelty. Worth a try but for my money I’d just reach for a good bourbon or gin any day of the week.

Become Jack Sparrow with rum or a struggling Parisian artist with absinthe.

>>21466419 (OP)
why are they using the banjo kazooie font?

>>21466542
Are you unironically blind?

>>21466559
are you?

>>21466425
Absinthe has never has any hallucinatory effects. It's alcohol, not magic crazy juice.

>>21466419 (OP)
It gets you drunk pretty easily and the buzz is kind of wobbly.

melbanons must go to Bar Ampere and drink a bunch of absinthe.

>>21466530
I'm not sure what they used back then but i bought pic related and even a single drop of it is so overpowering i don't get the rinse part. You could just eat licorice at this point. This bottle lasts me for years now and i haven't used more than 50 ml.

>>21466967
>It's alcohol, not magic crazy juice
Not MAGIC crazy juice, which you can call any form of ethanol...

>>21466967
so you don't really see green fairies?

>>21466419 (OP)
it's a drink for goths that are pretending to be something mystical

Its good but it causes my throat to swell up and i get red blotches all over my skin

>>21467372
Are you sure you weren't drinking urushiol?

>>21466967
Except it has you dumb faggot. Or are we just going to pretend hallucinatory drugs just don't exist anymore

Every time i give it a go the overpowering taste turns me off one glass in, and I like licorice, have never even downed enough to get a buzz

>>21466419 (OP)
same appeal as any alcohol, tastes good, gets you drunk.
>>21467457
are you diluting it with ice cold water?

>>21467461
yes, and it still tastes like licorice mouthwash

>>21467406
naw i unironically have asian flush reaction as a White dude lmao
Literally anything over 40% does that to my body

>>21467440
there has never been enough hallucinatory narcotics in absinthe to actually do anything. historical recipes all have well below the modern legal limits of wormwood.
if there were any effects of old absinthe other than the strong alcohol, it is most likely to be braindamage from bathtub absinthe dyed green with poisons and heavy metals.

>>21466419 (OP)
It's just a very strong anise flavored drink. I like it, but it's a sort of dessert drink, you don't drink much of it.
I got into it as a teen due to the meme, but quickly started enjoying it for what it actually was rather than what people pretend it is. Then again I've always liked anise flavored drinks (raki, ouzo).
One bar/restaurant thing we used to meet up often had absinthe that was served the "proper way" with absinthe spoon, sugar cube and water, and it became sort of our thing to end an evening.
I still have it occasionally, it's just a enjoyable little drink after a nice meal.

>>21467440
>drugs exist
>therefore absinthe is magic crazy juice
No. There's nothing in absinthe that makes you go crazy. Not now. Not ever. It's made up marketing and you fucking swallowed it like your mother in the alley behind the rathole bar where she plies her trade.

>>21466491
Lol were euros really this retarded?

>>21469221

>>21466419 (OP)
Not sure what a statement is?

>>21466419 (OP)
No, it's not a meme. It's a spirit. It's liquor. A meme is an image macro. A funny internet joke. Visual but not food.

>>21466426
>Anise forward
Which is to say I fucking hate it because I hate licorice

>>21466973
A lot also call for just a spritz on the top.

>>21466419 (OP)
i like it but also the only candy my parents would let me eat as a kid was black licorice so its a nostalgic flavor for me.

>>21470951
he's right doe. modern absinthe doesn't contain wormwood anymore. it's just a really high ABV liquorice-flavored liquor

>>21471172
you're wrong doe. modern absinthe does contain wormwood.
retard.

>>21471173
false, sweaty. it doesn't

>>21466491
>containing way too much methanol, hence some of the “bad incidents”
But methanol just blinds you and then kills you, how is this related to hallucinations?

>>21471194
(You)

>>21466419 (OP)
according to the druggy now exgf of my druggy fren, it originally came with some kind of herbs that were hallucinogen, which all the commercial absinthe simply do not include, apparently you can still find it but you must look hard, and probably not online

>>21471231
>druggy now exgf
No need to pretend anon, just admit you looked it up on Wikipedia.

>>21471346
>he fell for the be le ebin neet retard faggot with no friends jewish meme
tragic 2bh

>>21466491
>The troops were given absinthe to help fight the malaria
so it was meant to combat malaria just like gin and tonic was?

>>21471231
the herb is wormwood and the drug it contains is thujone, which is known to cause seizures in anything above a trace amount.

there's still wormwood in absinthe, just not enough to do anything. it's for flavor.
the same herb was traditionally used in vermouth (wormwood and vermouth are the same word, incidentally) and yet there's no red vermouth fairy.

>>21471844
what a beautiful piece of modernist ad, art as fuck

>>21471231
Some do, some don't. The ones that use wormwood don't contain much thujone at all; because it turns out that thujone isn't very volatile so it pretty much doesn't evaporate during distillation. People have done gas spectrometer analysis on vintage 1800's-era absinthes and they also have almost no thujone.