moreĮUPHORIA 80 is for strong absinthe- lovers: more alcohol, more thujone. Despite its high level of alcohol, EUPHORIA 80 is very smooth in the taste. EUPHORIA 80 contains a herbal base of "holy trinity" consisting of grand wormwood, anise, fennel and five herbs to underline the taste. It is the first Czech absinth with hundred and sixty proof. moreĮUPHORIA 80 is for strong absinth- lovers: more alcohol, more thujone. EUPHORIA Original is beautifully aromatic, spicy in taste and has a strong share of anise with lemon notes at background. EUPHORIA Original contains a herbal base of "holy trinity" consisting of grand wormwood, anise, fennel and five herbs to underline the taste. This is all from memory, there is plently of info on the net about it.Excellent combination of herbs macerated in 70% fine grain alcohol will guarantee high quality associated with euphoric state. Again, the alcohol is the thing you need to worry about the most. I've tried several brands of varying quality, strengths, and origins, and have made it on numerous occasions. Alot of what is called absinthe actually has no thujone at all. The absinthe available today is of varying quality, most poor. The stories about blindness and other ill effects are mainly due to the addition of all kinds of harmful adulterants back in the days when its popularity was at its peak.
This does not cause it to louche.Ībsinthe is easy to make yourself, but the louche is hard to acheive in homemade absinthe. The modern Czech method is to pour the absinthe over the sugar cubes into the glass, then light the sugar, and stir it into the absinthe. This is the method used during the height of absinthe consumption.
This causes the green absinthe to turn white, or louche. The traditional way to drink it is to pour it into a glass, place a slotted spoon over the glass, place sugar cubes on the spoon, and pour water over the sugar. It has a VERY bitter flavor, hench the use of additional spices such as anise. The main source for thujone in Absinthe is wormwood. It does have an effect similar to marijuana, but is "smoother". Thujone will not show up in any common drug tests, such as those used for employment. Of course the high alcohol content is the main one, but many versions use spices that have their own "special" properites. Thujone is one of the "active" ingredients. Artemisia species are completely legal and are attractive perennial ornamental plants. Presumably you would be legally liable for any possible damages if you gave absinthe to others to drink. However, simple possession of thujone-containing ethanol solutions will probably not get you into legal problems. As with many other things considered poisonous, you aren't allowed to commercially make food or drink containing more than trace amounts of thujone. Wormwood was included on a list of unsafe herbs which the FDA released in 1975.Īlthough it is banned in some Western countries, absinthe isn't controlled as a drug but as a food.
Now, thujone is banned as a food additive according to Section 801A of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of August, 1972. In the United States of America, absinthe was originally banned by Food Inspection Decision 147 in 1912. No one has Absinthe on the shelf or can get it.Īs noted earlier, it's illegal to purchase in the US. I called all my local liquor stores in the phone book. "The first stage is like ordinary drinking, the second when you begin to see monstrous and cruel things, but if you can persevere you will enter in upon the third stage where you see things that you want to see, wonderful curious things."Īnd this is what probably made famous artists what they were. These essences together with wine spirit have quite a significant effect on the body, in that you can drink much more of the stuff than other strong spirits and it does not make you feel drunk but. Logan Fils absinthe made the old way has all the essences in the same proportions as in old original absinthe, including particularly Grand Wormwood, Genepl, Petite Wormwood, Anise, Fennel and others. I would like to give it a try and post my findings I had not heard about Absinthe until now. I will reimburse them for the bottle, shipping and their time. Can anyone here send me a small flask, like a fifth. No one has Absinthe on the shelf or can get it.
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