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Where to buy Absinthe?
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OnceUGoMac
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OnceUGoMac said:
Got the kit today. Sweet! Love the spoon! And the bottle is awesome. Wished they engraved the Green Devil logo on the bottle like they did on the cup though. I really dig how they organize the herbs. Makes it so easy. Prepared it with vodka and everclear like they suggested (pure genius I tell you... I thought I'll use everclear and distilled water to regulate the alcohol level, but this is an even more clever idea... Half vodka (40%) and half everclear (96%) makes exactly 68% alcohol, which is the most popular percentage in absinthe... Genius, I tells you). It's now 7 days of waiting (and shaking the bottle about two times a day). Next Monday I'll put in the favoring and coloring herbs, and me and a few friends will have a green weekend on the first weekend of December.
tag
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Well I took the plunge today and ordered some Absinth from seborabsinth.com for Christmas for when all my friends meet up on christmas break(It should be interesting 😛 ). It was a bit pricey but I'm hoping its worth it. Should hopefully arrive within the week. I'm curious though has anyone ever ordered the 'Sipping pipe' from them? I ordered one of these cause it just looks so damn cool, I mean how could I not. 😀 Anyone ever use one of these and want to comment on what its like? They say its a unique experience but I don't know if I believe how true that is or not, but I guess I'll find out soon.
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highres said:
I second this. The Un Emile 68 is an excellent choice as well.
Even though the members are highly pretentious and rude, www.lafeeverte.net is a good resource with an absinthe forum. You'll have to provide an email address to be able to sign in and read the good stuff though; and whether or not that happens depends if the owners find your email name "worthy" and approve you.
I took 2 different email addresses from me before I found one they'd "allow." I don't post there any more (for obvious reasons), but read reviews on occasion.
tag
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Josh said:
Yeah I was torn on which to get so many recommendations for each, along with alot of negative ones for each. Hard to choose, though I think I'll be ordering that 68 Jade down the line to try it out. Im curious though, that website, was that the wrong address or did it just close down?
Chip NoVaMac
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Given that I will be traveling to Iceland and London in Feb, can I get this stuff legally there?
What timing. We finished the Green Devil absinthe on Thursday, and went and drank it tonight. It dodn't go too smoothly, but apparently Green Devil is some GOOD ****.
Let me explain... There was four of us. Three boys and one girl. We went through the first round of drinking, and one guy got the second round, but then the corkscrew broke off! The piece is stuck in the bottle. Well we tried several things to try to get it out, and the last one was trying to use a pencil to dig it out. Well it pushed the corkscrew piece in, and the pencil went in along with it by mistake! In a hurry, we poured the absinthe into another bottle some guy grabbed, and took the pencil out. We were already worried about drinking it because of the pencil, but what's worse is that we then realized the bottle was dirty!
So I grabbed it, said the night is over and went and poured it in the toilet. ****.
The guy who took the second drink left. We three were just sitting around and chatting.
But then the girl started to hallucinate. Man, she said she saw all kinds of stuff - vines growing on the ceiling, the grass becoming silvery water, her hair shining gold and stuff. She even wanted to shave her head so she can sell the gold hair! She said everything is so beautiful and she feels like it's the greatest time ever and stuff. It was great. Eventually it went away, and then she said she's feeling really down and sad for some reason, and went to bed.
Man. Since the girl was the one who dropped the pencil into the bottle, AND poured the absinthe into the dirty bottle without looking, she promised she will buy the everclear and vodka tomorrow so I can make a second batch. We're going to give it a second shot in 1.5 weeks. Right after we finish our finals 🙂
OnceUGoMac, can you describe your experiences? And your experiences making the absinthe? What did you use? As for me, I used the bottle provided as the storing bottle. I used a soda bottle cut in half as a funnel, and used half of the herbs in both bags to make 750ml of absinthe along with 375ml of everclear and 375ml of vodka. The directions said to make it with 2 liters, but how di you store 2 liters of absinthe? And for filtering, I just poured the absinthe into the filter which is put over the half-soda bottle funnel. I didn't decant the absinthe first. Didn't seem to affect the results. What about you?
And one final question... Where can you buy a corkscrew? As mine broke off.
Let me explain... There was four of us. Three boys and one girl. We went through the first round of drinking, and one guy got the second round, but then the corkscrew broke off! The piece is stuck in the bottle. Well we tried several things to try to get it out, and the last one was trying to use a pencil to dig it out. Well it pushed the corkscrew piece in, and the pencil went in along with it by mistake! In a hurry, we poured the absinthe into another bottle some guy grabbed, and took the pencil out. We were already worried about drinking it because of the pencil, but what's worse is that we then realized the bottle was dirty!
So I grabbed it, said the night is over and went and poured it in the toilet. ****.
The guy who took the second drink left. We three were just sitting around and chatting.
But then the girl started to hallucinate. Man, she said she saw all kinds of stuff - vines growing on the ceiling, the grass becoming silvery water, her hair shining gold and stuff. She even wanted to shave her head so she can sell the gold hair! She said everything is so beautiful and she feels like it's the greatest time ever and stuff. It was great. Eventually it went away, and then she said she's feeling really down and sad for some reason, and went to bed.
Man. Since the girl was the one who dropped the pencil into the bottle, AND poured the absinthe into the dirty bottle without looking, she promised she will buy the everclear and vodka tomorrow so I can make a second batch. We're going to give it a second shot in 1.5 weeks. Right after we finish our finals 🙂
OnceUGoMac, can you describe your experiences? And your experiences making the absinthe? What did you use? As for me, I used the bottle provided as the storing bottle. I used a soda bottle cut in half as a funnel, and used half of the herbs in both bags to make 750ml of absinthe along with 375ml of everclear and 375ml of vodka. The directions said to make it with 2 liters, but how di you store 2 liters of absinthe? And for filtering, I just poured the absinthe into the filter which is put over the half-soda bottle funnel. I didn't decant the absinthe first. Didn't seem to affect the results. What about you?
And one final question... Where can you buy a corkscrew? As mine broke off.
Wow reading this thread is making think about having my first drink in ages, and it's only 08:30am.
What to drink though?
Obviously the Absinth is a contender but I've also got a bunch of good stuff in the cabinet. I used to work in a liquor store and I left when it changed hands but a friend who was still working there called me up the first week the new owners had it and after he'd had a bust up with the new management and handed his notice in. They were mad at him for not using the barcode scanners they'd installed but he was only trying to do them a favour as the database was crap. The result?
I got a bottle of Absinth a couple of XO cognacs, some aged scotches (inc. a Johnnie Walker Blue label) and a bunch of other stuff all scanner-in as peanuts and Coke etc.
Of course I tried to point out the mistake but the guy behind the counter assured me that his boss had told him the computer never lied😀
What to drink though?
Obviously the Absinth is a contender but I've also got a bunch of good stuff in the cabinet. I used to work in a liquor store and I left when it changed hands but a friend who was still working there called me up the first week the new owners had it and after he'd had a bust up with the new management and handed his notice in. They were mad at him for not using the barcode scanners they'd installed but he was only trying to do them a favour as the database was crap. The result?
I got a bottle of Absinth a couple of XO cognacs, some aged scotches (inc. a Johnnie Walker Blue label) and a bunch of other stuff all scanner-in as peanuts and Coke etc.
Of course I tried to point out the mistake but the guy behind the counter assured me that his boss had told him the computer never lied😀
mpw said:
Intresting, because Absinthe isn't legally for sale in the US, so no liquor store would have it.
Ben
Well went to Target today and bought a bottle stopper. A cool-looking one too. It won't break off this time! I also got a few shot glasses 🙂
Going to the liquor store tomorrow and buy other 375 bottles of vodka and everclear, and going to make another batch.
Going to the liquor store tomorrow and buy other 375 bottles of vodka and everclear, and going to make another batch.
markjones05
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I am not sure where to buy from but i know that it is better to buy in bulk because of shipping costs. I recently tried a bottle called King of Spirits with a picturee of Vincent Vangogh on the bottle and it was real good. Not on the level of a hallucinigen but the perfect mellow buzz between drunk and stoned...very enjoyable. Ive tried a couple other bottles and this is the best so far, might have something to do with all the worm wood you can actually see floating around inside the bottle.
Josh
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tag said:
Oops...a typo on my part 😱
http://www.feeverte.net (French exams this week....tryping something without declaring feminine/masculine was just too odd LOL)
markjones05 said:
King of Spirits, according to absintheurs, is the absolute WORST you can buy. It is nothing like original pre-ban era Absinthe (they market the amount of Wormwood to lure people in - however, science has proven the effects of wormwood don't stand up to an exagorated reputation). No one ever has, or ever will, hallucinate from drinking Absinthe. While theoretically thujone (found in wormwood) could cause that effect, it should also be pointed out that thujone is a poison, and that by drinking the levels necessary for hallucinations to occur (were talking litres of pure thujone here), you would die long before you felt the effects. Your stomache could not physically hold enough absinthe that has the much thujone in it, and anything close will kill you of alcohol poisoning. Additionally, not one record of hallucinations or any such thing from the original absinthe that existed in the early 1900s exists.
And the whole story of Van Goh cutting off his ear? True story, however it has more to do with actual mental disorders (dyslexia), and absolutey nothing to do with absinthe. Van Goh was crazy from the get-go, always causing fights, being wild, etc. Cutting off his ear was an event that surprised no one.
Another common misconception is with lighting of the sugar. NO ONE, and I mean no one (lol), outside of Johny Depp, lights the sugar on fire. This was also created purely for marketting reasons to make it look "exciting."
Not one account of lighting the absinthe-soaked sugar on fire exists before the 1990's.
Ted Breaux, a chemist and absintheur - also the creator of the Jades - is regarded as THE source for absinthe info. You can catch his posts on feeverte, and the was also an article in Wired magazine on him, which you can find here.
saabmp3 said:
It's sort've a catch-22. Absinthe cannot be legally sold or distrubuted in the US, but no law says you cannot own it for your own personal use. Another catch is, that while it is technically illegal to have it imported from Euruope, 99% it will be a successful delivery. Ordering a bottle or two is very reliable, and even at the VERY rare chance of customs finding it, they do no more than confiscate it. At which point you just try again, and you will have the absinthe at your door step. In other words, you can "illegally" import absinthe, which has no real consequences, and once it arrives, it's legally yours. No law can take it from you, or penalize you, once it is at your house.
Absenta, which is an absinthe knock-off, is commonly sold at stores in North America. It is similar in looks to absinthe, but tastes very little like it. It is perfectly legal to buy - just another liquor, however many people mistake it for actual absinthe. Perhaps this is the confusion here? It's the one with Van Goh on a colorful label. Anything advertising Van Goh, Wormwood, Thujone content, or psyc. effects is obviously a joke.
Where to Buy Absinthe
Hi Flowbee... feevertesource is dead now 🙂 Absinth24.net ( is the regular shop!
We'll be putting a new/upgraded shop at www.absinthe-online.com in the future with a better look and easier layout for visitors, so keep your eyes peeled. 🙂
Looking in this thread it's kind of the usual, good people giving some good and yet bad advice. There is lots of bad info about absinthe because it was banned at the turn of the 1900's and many of the literature was destroyed. Czech Republic has no history in absinthe and when they started production in the 1990's they "brought absinthe back", so we're happy for that but they only make two really good absinthe's (Trul1792 and Toulouse Lautrec)
The best brands of absinthe we sell are distilled products, not everclear with oil of wormwood extract etc like the worse brands...
Swiss and French are always the most faithful absinthes to the pre-ban era. When you add cold water into the absinthe, it will do proper "louche". With most Czech brands (most Czech brands are mixed and macerated, not distilled), they will not louche. And this is really a part of the trademark of absinthe, the good one anyway.
If I came here earlier I would have recommended the Absinthe Montmartre. It has a website here: www.absinthe-montmartre.com and is from Austria! It, like most French and Swiss absinthe is a "real" absinthe.
I hope this helps.. it's sad that money was wasted on an absinthe "kit". With priority shipping straight from Germany we could have found you a good starting absinthe for under $70 usd price. Some Spanish brands (called absenta in Spain) are great and very cheap too!
Hi Flowbee... feevertesource is dead now 🙂 Absinth24.net ( is the regular shop!
We'll be putting a new/upgraded shop at www.absinthe-online.com in the future with a better look and easier layout for visitors, so keep your eyes peeled. 🙂
Looking in this thread it's kind of the usual, good people giving some good and yet bad advice. There is lots of bad info about absinthe because it was banned at the turn of the 1900's and many of the literature was destroyed. Czech Republic has no history in absinthe and when they started production in the 1990's they "brought absinthe back", so we're happy for that but they only make two really good absinthe's (Trul1792 and Toulouse Lautrec)
The best brands of absinthe we sell are distilled products, not everclear with oil of wormwood extract etc like the worse brands...
Swiss and French are always the most faithful absinthes to the pre-ban era. When you add cold water into the absinthe, it will do proper "louche". With most Czech brands (most Czech brands are mixed and macerated, not distilled), they will not louche. And this is really a part of the trademark of absinthe, the good one anyway.
If I came here earlier I would have recommended the Absinthe Montmartre. It has a website here: www.absinthe-montmartre.com and is from Austria! It, like most French and Swiss absinthe is a "real" absinthe.
I hope this helps.. it's sad that money was wasted on an absinthe "kit". With priority shipping straight from Germany we could have found you a good starting absinthe for under $70 usd price. Some Spanish brands (called absenta in Spain) are great and very cheap too!
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