# Well, tonight we're drinking Asbinth... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 21, 2003, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-tonight-were-drinking-asbinth/220268 "2003-12-21T04:16:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@sj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sj2)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-tonight-were-drinking-asbinth/220268/1 "2003-12-21T04:16:49Z")
My husband, Improvisor, got the bottle in London, we’re planning on watching Mulan Rouge and not answering the phone. Cross your fingers everyone. Wormwood included. Spoon method. I’m nervous as I’m already 2 beers in the hole… ---
**Author:** ![sj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@sj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sj2)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-tonight-were-drinking-asbinth/220268/2 "2003-12-21T05:32:25Z")
Well, I it tastes like NyQuil. No wonder NyQuil is green. Deep, man. Deep. ---
**Author:** ![Macrophage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/87869e/32.png) [@Macrophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Macrophage)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-tonight-were-drinking-asbinth/220268/3 "2003-12-21T05:47:04Z")
[nitpick] Absinthe [/nitpick]. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-tonight-were-drinking-asbinth/220268/4 "2003-12-21T05:48:05Z")
Asbinth? Must be working already. ---
**Author:** ![Fjodor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/43a26b/32.png) [@Fjodor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fjodor)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-tonight-were-drinking-asbinth/220268/5 "2003-12-21T06:07:39Z")
Visiting Prague back in '97, I came across an atrocious beverage mislabeled Absint. My later research made it clear to me, that only the colour and the proof bore any semblance to real Absinthe, the nectar of gods. I have had “pure spirit” (95% vol), and coughed less. Beware of that! On a trip to Normandy, however, I purchased a bottle of more reputable appearance, and I, for one, am sold. Better alcoholic beverage is hard to come by! ---
**Author:** ![SanguineSpider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SanguineSpider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanguineSpider)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-tonight-were-drinking-asbinth/220268/6 "2003-12-21T06:13:07Z")
How very Victorian of you all… ---
**Author:** ![sj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@sj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sj2)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-tonight-were-drinking-asbinth/220268/7 "2003-12-21T07:40:00Z")
I rarely respond to nitpicks, but I spelled it wrong as most searchers leae it off. Improvisor told me about alternative searching with more or less, but I found it better to leave it off. Even though it says it the proper way with an e on the label and here I am typing without looking at the screen. Hey,. I di pretty good. I think. Give it a go I say. Just be ready to be mezmorizewd by the christmas tree. ---
**Author:** ![sj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@sj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sj2)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-tonight-were-drinking-asbinth/220268/8 "2003-12-21T07:47:33Z")
He he. I;m drinking champagne now. Shoulf be going to sleep. My husband still thinks this tastes like nyquil. Nothing worse than schroom trips in college, I’d say. I read in the papaer today a rant about people in seattle specifically about someone complaining about NYers living in Seattle and how rude they are. A NYer wrote in to say that Seattle is an iceberg when it comes to emotional connections. So right I say. I’ll have to start a debate on this subject in GD, but Seattle people would shy away in a heart beat, Imagine a whole city as a shrinking violet. That;s my new home-town. I miss our old towns of wrigley and nyc. and since the dope is based there, I feel this is my one connection to my old life where everything was right with the world and for 6 dollars, you could cab it anywhere. Yes, do give the absyjntne a try. ---
**Author:** ![UnwrittenNocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/6de8d8/32.png) [@UnwrittenNocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UnwrittenNocturne)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-tonight-were-drinking-asbinth/220268/9 "2003-12-21T07:52:35Z")
I make my own absinthe (the real thing folks) but for obvious legal reasons I will not give instructions here ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-tonight-were-drinking-asbinth/220268/10 "2003-12-21T16:06:49Z")
It’s overrated. It’s basically just pretty strong aniseed-flavored spirits. I’ve had it several times in Czech Republic, Hungary, and Germany – the stuff in Czech and Hungary definitely had wormwood in it, at least – but failed to notice any special results other than getting tipsy pretty quickly. (It’s usually around 140 proof.) That said, the ritual is quite nice, and all the myth it’s shrouded in does make it a cool drink. ---
**Author:** ![SanguineSpider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SanguineSpider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanguineSpider)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-tonight-were-drinking-asbinth/220268/11 "2003-12-21T16:12:06Z")
Like I said above, how very Victorian… I am a Goth at heart. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-tonight-were-drinking-asbinth/220268/12 "2003-12-21T20:14:04Z")
I smuggled a small bottle of Un Emile 68 back from London this past summer. I’ve smelled it, and stared at it several times, but never really got excited enough to start drinking it. So there’s no real effect from the wormwood? Damn… Here’s a site that claims that the old-school Absinthe from the 1890’s or so, was lower in thujone content than most of the commercial brands available today. [http://www.feeverte.net/thujone.html](http://www.feeverte.net/thujone.html) ---
**Author:** ![Largo62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@Largo62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Largo62)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-tonight-were-drinking-asbinth/220268/13 "2003-12-21T21:28:03Z")
Any of you absinthe users make unusual gasseous noises? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-tonight-were-drinking-asbinth/220268/14 "2003-12-21T21:59:33Z")
Absinthe makes the fart go “Honda”? ---
**Author:** ![Polly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/da6949/32.png) [@Polly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polly)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-tonight-were-drinking-asbinth/220268/15 "2003-12-21T22:21:57Z")
“The real thing” has opium in it, doesn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-tonight-were-drinking-asbinth/220268/16 "2003-12-21T23:51:37Z")
Opium? No, it’s the thujone that is supposed to illicit weird effects. Comes from wormwood. To my knowledge, absinthe never had any opium in it. ---
**Author:** ![Chavardz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/91b2a8/32.png) [@Chavardz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chavardz)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-tonight-were-drinking-asbinth/220268/17 "2003-12-21T23:59:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Macrophage \* > \*\*[nitpick] Absinthe [/nitpick]. \*\* So stop being anal retentive already. We all know you have excellent orthography, ---
**Author:** ![Macrophage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/87869e/32.png) [@Macrophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Macrophage)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-tonight-were-drinking-asbinth/220268/18 "2003-12-22T06:27:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Chavardz \* > \*\*So stop being anal retentive already. We all know you have excellent orthography, \*\* Oi.My digestive tract should be of no interest to you, fine sir. ---
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-tonight-were-drinking-asbinth/220268/19 "2003-12-22T12:08:46Z")
At a party my boyfriend (well, he was just a friend at the time) passed me a shot of the stuff. It was aurful! I’ll never try it again. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-tonight-were-drinking-asbinth/220268/20 "2003-12-22T14:18:02Z")
Supposedly, Van Gogh was driven insane by drinking absinth. Anyway, years ago I heard a story, that Van Gogh’s weird colors (in is later paintings), were the result of thujone poisoning. His vision became distorted, and his eyes became sensitive to yellows and oranges…does this theory hold any water? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-tonight-were-drinking-asbinth/220268.md?page=2)