Absinthe is now sold by the PA LCB. French & Swiss versions @ about $60 a bottle. Is this the real stuff?

No, the absinthe you can now buy in the Sates contains a negligible amount of thujone.

Merci!

Yeah its real garbage!

I was reading this thread and I checked with google for more information. I found this ..... I checked it out ..... it's good ..... absinthe

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Originally posted by Lwilliams:
I was reading this thread and I checked with google for more information. I found this ..... I checked it out ..... it's good ..... absinthe

I don't know what that stuff is but it's not absinthe. It looks like the kind of thing that might appeal to college students looking for some kind of herbal high.
If I didn't know better, since this is your first post, I would guess that you're shilling for this site. If not, welcome.

There's a company that's been on a couple of radio shows here in Seattle called greenfairy.org.

As far as I know, they're real.

For a fully traditional version, check out La Fee - pricey, but made with both original recipes and original ingredients

Interestingly, I always thought that absinthe caused hallucinations. At least according to wikipedia, this is just a myth.

You can buy a 750mL of Lucid for about 60 USD but it only contains one tenth th content of the good stuff. The best on the market is called Zele.

i have a bottle of lucid.

its about 124 proof. it tastes like concentrated black licorice and herbs. i tried drinking it straight, and i have tried the water dripping over the sugar thing. the sugar helped but the taste is still pretty uh... intense.

i remember hearing about this whole absinthe thing and wanted to see what the big deal was. from what i hear the latest info on the subject is this:

the absinthe sold now is lower in thujone content and lower in alcohol proof. its common knowledge that present day absinthe is not going to give you a creativity boost and make you write the next harry potter or paint mona lisa 2008. this is attributed to the thujone, people selling the stuff say. the old stuff supposedly had more of the "wacky weed" and thats why it was a favorite drink of artsy types. the true effect of this herb on humans in dosages comparable to what you get in the drink is being tested. but so far it looks like it takes a whole lot of the stuff to give you hallucinations and seeing fairys.

some absinthe from throughout the century has been tested and compared to present day off the shelf stuff.

the amount of thujone and wormwood was pretty close in both samples. so it wasnt the herb that made you see things. it was being drunk as hell after 8 or 10 shots of this stuff that was basically grain alcohol. the old absinthe was tested at approximately 160+ proof and definitely flammable.

so my advice, save your money... buy some 151 rum, chill it, add sugar, leave a black licorice stick in the glass for a minute or so, eat the licorice and wash it down with the shot.

repeat above steps until you think you are johnny depp or until you write the sequel to the da vinci code.