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Either absinthe’s reputation is unwarranted or I got sold a fake. The stuff knocked a wallop but failed to produce anything resembling a hallucination. It turned cloudy white when mixed with water. After buying the bottle for 30 Euros and tasting it, everything about it was consistent with descriptions of absinthe-it was green, 130 proof, and tasted like a bitter version of Pernod. My own experience began one afternoon in Sicily when I passed a wine and liquor store and noticed in the window an ancient bottle labeled “Thymol Liqueur.” I took this to be a barely cloaked reference to the active ingredient in absinthe. Experts have argued whether there’s any truth in this and whether absinthe’s active ingredient, wormwood and its alkaloid, thymol, causes hallucinations or other mind altering experiences. To make a long story short, the murders were eventually blamed on the effects of absinthe and its tendency to drive one mad.
#Absinthe hallucination series
Absinthe is always drunk with water, which it immediately clouds in the same way as Pastis.Ībsinthe’s formidable (or some would say, notorious) reputation may have come about as a result of a series of murders that happened in Eastern France in the early part of the 20th century. A piece of sugar is put in the spoon and water poured over to sweeten the absinthe. In old pictures, such as the Dégas, a pierced spoon is set over a glass. Authentic absinthe should taste of anise but with a bitter background.
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But times are changing and absinthe is newly legal in places it was once forbidden-it’s legal in most of Europe, America, Asia, and Canada. Few of us have ever seen absinthe much less tasted it. For most of us, that’s about the extent of it. We’ve all seen Dégas’s young lady, sitting in a café, paralyzed with ennui, staring at her glass of green elixir.