Homemade BoozeSpanishFly writes, "I have a 'make your own absinthe' kit here, fucking terrified of making it...
"Tell us your stories of when you got so drunk on homemade mead you pissed in the cupboard.
Or tell us about the time you tried to buy wine stabiliser but got chased out of the friendly merchants shop because that compound is used to bash cocaine.
Tell us about the trials and tribulations of not being able to afford 4 cans of strongbow and couldn't brew your own poison so you got pissed on antifreeze and the next day pissed in your own mouth."
Thanks SpanishFly. MAKE THE ABSINTHE
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chthonic, Fri 5 Dec 2014, 9:39)
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Surely you'd need a still? Is it absinthe 'flavour', as opposed to a spirit?(, Fri 5 Dec 2014, 20:29, 8 replies)
High alcohol tolerant yeasts work pretty well.(If you control the conditions)
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Fri 5 Dec 2014, 21:14,
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It's an infusionTrouble is that the amount of wormwood, the (psycho)active ingredient, is heavily proscribed. So whilst it's high alcohol content will get you legless the "Green Fairy" won't do her magic. Many claims are made for "real" and "genuine" absinthe brands, but I think the pre 1914 ones are long gone.
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CharlesDexterWard no rush eh, Sat 6 Dec 2014, 0:14,
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It's pretty much a myth anyway.Enormous Doses of Thujone will cause seizures and death. Though it's now thought that the amounts found in absinthe even in pre-ban (1895–1910) bottles was insignificant. Halluicinations associated with high usage of absinthe are are thought to have been just the usual delerium tremens or alcoholic hallucinosis suffered by chronic alcoholics.
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buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Sat 6 Dec 2014, 5:23,
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I've had supposedly "high thujone" stuff. Was also high in alcohol (around 70% I seem to recall) but I didn't notice any perculiar effects from either.
I'm of the opinion that the thujone was likely an insignificant event.
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peculiar(, Sat 6 Dec 2014, 16:41, closed)
^Great point, can't fault it.(, Sat 6 Dec 2014, 16:57, closed)
Yeah, thanks. I blame using a touchscreen virtual keyboard -- for some reason it always affects my spelling.
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Perhaps it's like the "craft your own whisky" (or whatever they're called) kits. The contain a bottle of raw spirit and a cask and' I think, some other woods you can add to the cask. I almost bought one myself but at over £100 it looked a bit too pricey to buy just for a laugh.
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