Food, Drink & Dining Out Absinthe

[Tiff]

Has anyone here tried Poteen? When I lived in England I had a mate, Belfast Pete, who would bring me some when he came to visit, claimed it was official RUC "approved" bootleg Poteen, but Belfast Pete, good bloke that he was, did talk a lot of shit. Whether true or not, this stuff was real falling down water, it packed an almighty punch.

Poitin?

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poitín

Sounds nasty to be sure.

 

[Gough]

Poitin?

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poitín

Sounds nasty to be sure.

That's the stuff. I used to drink it with a bit of lime cordial to take the edge off it.

 

[Tiff]

Especially if it's home made.

My sister warned me about hitting the homemade ouzo once, someone gave me a bottle, of with I drank 90%. Took me over a week to recover, and I smelled like aniseed for days lol

I love aniseed a lot. I love the tingling in the mouth no homo.

Though anything home made is going to be good night haha.

My Uncle worked in Eritrea (spl?) and brought back this dodgy local spirit in a plain glass bottle that was like poison. He loved it. It made me psychopathic.

 

[Flawed Genius]

Poitin?

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poitín

Sounds nasty to be sure.

I love how the first subheading under the Wiki article is "legal status".

Poitín is also used in the Irish midlands as an alternative to deep heat; it is commonly rubbed onto muscles to warm them.

 

[Hand]

Tastes like burning liquorice.

 

[The Dice Man]

I live within 2kms of a genuine Absinthe bar which has around 70 different varieties with varying degrees of alcohol content. I love the drink, but it is not meant to be taken as a shot. This bar treats it as a ritual and is a fun cool little bar. I never have more than 2 though.

 

[woopedazz]

This is how I envisage my first experience with the green went down. Spoiler: The bottle wasn't ready.

 

[krisholio14]

I love aniseed a lot. I love the tingling in the mouth no homo.

Though anything home made is going to be good night haha.

My Uncle worked in Eritrea (spl?) and brought back this dodgy local spirit in a plain glass bottle that was like poison. He loved it. It made me psychopathic.

We used to have this Chinese maths teacher in high school called Mr Yang. He was supervising teacher at the school social one year and he just happened to live around the corner from the hall the event was held at. He invited a few of the lads back to his place for a nightcap and produced a bottle of this.....

The fellas said not only did it taste like shit, they only has a shot worth and it blew their ****ing heads off.

 

[Flawed Genius]

We used to have this Chinese maths teacher in high school called Mr Yang. He was supervising teacher at the school social one year and he just happened to live around the corner from the hall the event was held at. He invited a few of the lads back to his place for a nightcap and produced a....

A lot of stories have gone bad about this point.

 

[krisholio14]

A lot of stories have gone bad about this point.

It was a long time ago, in a small country town, when it wasn't unusual (and didn't have the same potential connotations) to have a few bevvys with teachers.

 

[Gasometer]

Probably not designed to be done as a shot.

The first and only time I drank absinthe I lost 4 hours of my life and woke up with my head in a bucket of my own spew.

Has anyone else glugged any of this green abomination? Is it better when it's served with mint leaves and ice and sugar and all that fancy shit?

Can you buy this at Woolies?

Saw it on Heston last year. He tried it and he was whacked.

 

[Flawed Genius]

Can you buy this at Woolies?

Saw it on Heston last year. He tried it and he was whacked.

Liquorland probably sells it, I'd say.

 

[Gasometer]

Liquorland probably sells it, I'd say.

I will check www.boozle.com.au

 

[Upgrayedd]

It's not bad, do want to smack some people around the head who say "i tripped balls on it", Very sweet for something thats over 60% as well, this is what gets a lot of people

It does have Thujone in it, However you would have to smash down at least two bottles of absinthe in quick succession for it to even have an effect on you. It all comes from the stuff being banned in the late 1800's and only really comming back 20 years ago. Not a whole lot of knowledge but a lot of old bullshit stories

 

[Gasometer]

Yeh its sold here. 500ml for about $60.

Learn something new everyday on BF.

 

[Richo is God]

We used to have this Chinese maths teacher in high school called Mr Yang. He was supervising teacher at the school social one year and he just happened to live around the corner from the hall the event was held at. He invited a few of the lads back to his place for a nightcap and produced a bottle of this.....

The fellas said not only did it taste like shit, they only has a shot worth and it blew their ******* heads off.

I had a sub maths teacher called mr yang too! Didn't seem like the type to do that stuff though

 

[Flawed Genius]

Anyone had tequila con gusano?

 

[Hard_to_Beat]

We used to have this Chinese maths teacher in high school called Mr Yang. He was supervising teacher at the school social one year and he just happened to live around the corner from the hall the event was held at. He invited a few of the lads back to his place for a nightcap and produced a bottle of this.....

The fellas said not only did it taste like shit, they only has a shot worth and it blew their ******* heads off.

It's probably a chaser for this stuff -

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[nicky]

I've had absinthe with real wormwood in it before. There are restrictions on the amount.

It's a total mothergoose too I'll just add.

Did you eat the worm?

 

[Doss]

I reckon Absinthe is a bit over-hyped, personally. I don't enjoy it enough to have had enough in one sitting to have suffered from its effects, though.

My worst hangover was after a friend's birthday when we got stuck into the Bacardi 151 shots. At 75.5%, you have to have a liver of titanium to be able to handle more than a couple of them- I had five, from memory. Not pretty the next day.

A good single malt does me just fine, though.

 

[Doss]

We used to have this Chinese maths teacher in high school called Mr Yang. He was supervising teacher at the school social one year and he just happened to live around the corner from the hall the event was held at. He invited a few of the lads back to his place for a nightcap and produced a bottle of this.....

The fellas said not only did it taste like shit, they only has a shot worth and it blew their ******* heads off.

I came back from Vietnam only six weeks ago, and it's honestly not an exaggeration to say that snake and scorpion wine was sold in virtually every supermarket or market we came across.

Funny though about it blowing their heads off, perhaps the stuff your mates had is different to the stuff I had, because it wasn't that strong.

 

[Tiff]

I live within 2kms of a genuine Absinthe bar which has around 70 different varieties with varying degrees of alcohol content. I love the drink, but it is not meant to be taken as a shot. This bar treats it as a ritual and is a fun cool little bar. I never have more than 2 though.

Where is this?

 

[nicky]

Just north of perth.

 

[Sanders]

I've had absinthe with real wormwood in it before. There are restrictions on the amount.

It's a total mothergoose too I'll just add.

No you haven't.

 

[Tiff]

Did you eat the worm?

You're kidding right?

Not only the wrong drink, but another myth.

The worm does nothing at all. Nothing. At. All.

Marketing gimmicks.

Another bubble bursts.