Everything you know about absinthe is wrong

Perhaps you already have your own absinthe story. You drank it in New Orleans one foggy night, too full of fumes to remember much aside from the cloudy green swirl of the drink as water drip-dropped into the glass. You smuggled a cheap bottle back from Spain and brought it out at cocktail parties like a magic trick. You tried it at a party where someone mixed a batch in the back room, and it was caustic stuff, as mean as moonshine. You sipped it in an gloomy underground Czech bar, where everyone looked like spies, and the bartender lit the sugar cube aflame.
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Absinthe may not cause hallucinations, but its buzz has been likened to a kind of "waking drunk," in which inhibitions are lowered but synapses fire faster, the perfect companion for a lively barside debate.

Turns out my Absinthe stories are all cliché now. With that said, a great article on Absinthe. And the most honest description of the effects.

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Posted by sal on December 21, 2007 10:55:00 AM EST #