Absinthe
So for the first time tonight I tried myself absinthe. Yes I only got to try it here and not over in Europe, but it was authentic stuff. I never had a chance to hit any nightclubs over their (Yes I know, shame on me) but I do have my reasons. The bars I did hit didn't look like they had the stuff. So did I like it? Hell no. We did the traditional method of drinking it with the sugar. I took my little slip and thought it was gross but I think all straight hard liquor is disgusting. On the other hand mixing it with ginger age is really good. On one of two bottles I came across in the duty free shop in London it had a list of 8 different ways on how to mix absinthe and one was mixing it with ginger ale with a little bit of honey. So I took what was left of my shot and mixed it with a bit of ginger ale, but we had no honey. It was funny that mixing cases the drink to go cloudy which they call louching.
The bottle I bought was my personal wedding gift to Colin. It was actually a little difficult to find. I think the hard part was just trying to find a good liquor store. Over there you can walk into any grocery store and they have a alcohol section. The first actual store devoted just to liquor that I came across happened to be sold out of the stuff. Since the store was sort of a chain I figured that I come across another one, but once I hit another one it was closed and then it was closed on Sundays (the very last day we were their). I finally managed to come across another store on our last day and they had over 8 different kinds ranging in price and percent of alcohol. I figured getting the bottle that looked the coolest would be the best one. It was a fairly expensive 60% (they went up to 70%) bottle which said was equal to 120 proof. It was definantly worth the price for my friend though. I wanted to get a small bottle for myself (which they said came with it's own slotted spoon) but they were all sold out. I was worried though that it would be confiscated at customs. Luckily BC has no ban what so ever on Absinthe with Thujone. Alberta, Ontario, Nova Scotia and Quebec allow 10 mg/kg of thujone in it, while it is banned in all the other provinces.
"I don't feel anything. How about you Green fariy?"
"I don't feel a God Damn thing!"
So for the first time tonight I tried myself absinthe. Yes I only got to try it here and not over in Europe, but it was authentic stuff. I never had a chance to hit any nightclubs over their (Yes I know, shame on me) but I do have my reasons. The bars I did hit didn't look like they had the stuff. So did I like it? Hell no. We did the traditional method of drinking it with the sugar. I took my little slip and thought it was gross but I think all straight hard liquor is disgusting. On the other hand mixing it with ginger age is really good. On one of two bottles I came across in the duty free shop in London it had a list of 8 different ways on how to mix absinthe and one was mixing it with ginger ale with a little bit of honey. So I took what was left of my shot and mixed it with a bit of ginger ale, but we had no honey. It was funny that mixing cases the drink to go cloudy which they call louching.
The bottle I bought was my personal wedding gift to Colin. It was actually a little difficult to find. I think the hard part was just trying to find a good liquor store. Over there you can walk into any grocery store and they have a alcohol section. The first actual store devoted just to liquor that I came across happened to be sold out of the stuff. Since the store was sort of a chain I figured that I come across another one, but once I hit another one it was closed and then it was closed on Sundays (the very last day we were their). I finally managed to come across another store on our last day and they had over 8 different kinds ranging in price and percent of alcohol. I figured getting the bottle that looked the coolest would be the best one. It was a fairly expensive 60% (they went up to 70%) bottle which said was equal to 120 proof. It was definantly worth the price for my friend though. I wanted to get a small bottle for myself (which they said came with it's own slotted spoon) but they were all sold out. I was worried though that it would be confiscated at customs. Luckily BC has no ban what so ever on Absinthe with Thujone. Alberta, Ontario, Nova Scotia and Quebec allow 10 mg/kg of thujone in it, while it is banned in all the other provinces.
"I don't feel anything. How about you Green fariy?"
"I don't feel a God Damn thing!"
posted by Garrett @ 11:26 PM
5 Comments:
At 8:27 AM,
Polishlush said…
The Green fairy.... God that was FUNNY!!!!
At 11:15 AM,
Garrett said…
This happy ending is bullshit! When does the fairy get laid? I'm outta here!
At 2:49 PM,
Blogger21 said…
Yeah if it wasn't for all those green fairies in movies like Moulin Rouge and Eurotrip I would never have known about Absinthe! Mind you, I'm a wimp and can't drink it, but the last time I saw someone drink it he drank a good 13+ ounces of it, and got so drunk that my buddy shot him in the leg with his pellet gun to get him off his property. It was funnier than hell.
Oh yeah. I'm in Alberta.
At 5:05 PM,
Garrett said…
Since I did enjoy mixing it with gingar ale, I want to try drinking it non-stop until me and The Green Fairy have devised our plot to take out The Great Gazoo.
Yeah that would have been funny to witness.
At 7:51 PM,
Polishlush said…
Well since there is NO wormwood (sp) in the CANADIAN version (not sure if you have brought some back)We here will never see the Green Fairy!!! I tried.... LOL Oh did I try.. and man did I REGRET!!!!
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