Absinthe

[Stoneage Dinosaurs]

High enough % to both function as hand sanitiser and numb out the lockdown mind piss misery. Also you can only really get it online. Is this maybe the perfect time to get into absinthe?

Apparently all the hallucinatory stuff is over hyped a tad. Which is a shame cause it would be ideal. Don't worry about your trip to the Italian riviera being cancelled, now you can see five hundred Italian Rivieras all at once 10000 metres high lime green and swarming with mind flaying brachiopods! Although I guess you can't really put that on your Instagram story.

Is it worth getting into this stuff?

[chveik]

yeah it's quite nice. the hallucinations seem to be a myth, they were mostly likely caused by delirium tremens.  it's expensive af though.  you might as well buy pastis, it doesn't taste that different imho

my parents make their own (just a few litres every couple of years) and it doesn't seem that difficult. so if you have a garden and a bit of equipment you can try that.

[imitationleather]

However, of course, making spirits yourself in the UK is HIGHLY ILLEGAL.

[chveik]

it's illegal here too... (well except for some old folks that have a licence. my nan does)

[Ferris]

However, of course, making spirits yourself in the UK is HIGHLY ILLEGAL.

Googled it, some absolute legend Gary types have found a loophole

One of the "grey areas" around home distilling in the UK is that there is no proviso at all for ethanol that you are going to drink at home. There is however, some sort of precedent in that you can distill a certain amount of "bio-ethanol" at home for fuel use for off road use (licence required).

[Hand Solo]

yeah it's quite nice. the hallucinations seem to be a myth, they were mostly likely caused by delirium tremens.

I thought it was because it used to be made with wormwood which is psychoactive, but they stopped using that in commercial products a long time ago?

Similar to cocaine in Coca Cola? But I still hear they use coca in the commercial product after being chemically washed to remove the high? But a bit doubtful on the veracity of that.

[Pearly-Dewdrops Drops]

Googled it, some absolute legend Gary types have found a loophole

It's not illegal if you build an absinthe-powered car first

[Stoneage Dinosaurs]

it's expensive af though.  you might as well buy pastis, it doesn't taste that different imho

Nah, had that in Cornwall. Didn't get me all that drunk and I'm not a fan of the potato in the filling

[chveik]

I thought it was because it used to be made with wormwood which is psychoactive, but they stopped using that in commercial products a long time ago?

not exactly, it's the thuyone found in wormwood and other plants that can be very dangerous. but there is only a very small quantity of it in the spirit. you'd die of alcohol poisoning long before being in any way affected by it.

[Hand Solo]

I suppose the Bohemian artists on the stuff would have been completely fucked anyway on various drugs and liquors, so just the strength of the absinthe nevermind other properties didn't need enter into it.

[imitationleather]

Of course if you want to hallucinate you could just take acid. But don't do that because it's absolutely terrifying.

And HIGHLY ILLEGAL in the UK.

[Urinal Cake]

It's French gin. A lot of it has to do with new social mores, it being higher proof etc but I also think there were a lot of backyard operators creating dangerous product.

[Noodle Lizard]

I think it's very nice, personally, but I love that anise taste. I got served all sorts of suspiciously cheap luminous shots labeled "absinthe" on holidays to Spain and Portugal as a teenager, but drank the real thing (melted sugar cube and everything) for the first time in Amsterdam and loved it. I now get a bottle once a year or so to bring to NYE parties - it's fun to see people expect to trip balls off it, when really it's just a fancy and quite strong shot.

[seepage]

some absolute arsehole who ran a local bar in the nineties said he had the licence to be the sole importer into the UK. The bar failed and he fucked off to run a hotel in Wookey Hole. Hope that failed too.

[Head Gardener]

for a stronger hit it's better if you inject it