Soaking wormwood in vodka

[Jared530 10+ year member]

Anyone try it? I want to get a good ratio of how much i need to soak

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[andrew2944r 10+ year member]

What about those procedures I found on the Internet, such as soaking wormwood in vodka, or dosing Pernod with wormwood extract?

All of them were created by people utterly ignorant of how to create absinthe.

Absinthe is a distilled product. You CANNOT make something approximating absinthe without distillation. Soaking barley in vodka won't give you whisky. Soaking wormwood in Everclear won't give you absinthe. It won’t taste like absinthe, and it won’t BE absinthe. All you’ll have done is turn a perfectly good bottle of neutral high proof alcohol into a disgustingly bitter, vile tasting mess.

Pastis isn’t absinthe without the wormwood. Adding wormwood essence to pastis won’t make it taste like absinthe. Undiluted wormwood oil is also a potentially dangerous substance, and can lead to severe renal failure if drunk neat. Stay away from it.

In short, unless you have access to a still, it is not physically or chemically possible to make anything remotely approximating absinthe.

 

[soloXgt 10+ year member]

where did u get wormwood?

 

[crash9201 10+ year member]

absinthe really doesnt make you "trip" ive drank it, just got drunk

 

[gotparts90 10+ year member]

to make real absinthe yep it does come out distilled but if you are just looking for the wormwood effects you can buy the extract and just look up the dosage off of erowid that site might have it.

 

[Fiercetimbo17 10+ year member]

absinthe really doesnt make you "trip" ive drank it, just got drunk

You most liekly did not drink real absinthe, Ive only had the real stuff once and while i didnt trip balls and see green fairys i was definatly not just drunk.

 

[Jared530 10+ year member]

i just want to feel funny.. I got some premium organic wormwood off the internet, saying its specific for making absinthe, but you need all these other ingredients. But the main active ingredient it thujone which comes from wormwood.

But i know absinthe doesn't make you trip, its a weird high supposedly, you can look it up on erowid.

 

[306stang 10+ year member]

You most liekly did not drink real absinthe, Ive only had the real stuff once and while i didnt trip balls and see green fairys i was definatly not just drunk.

my roommate travels to europe all the time and has brought back several bottles of it.

obviously, the more wormwood in it the "better" it is.

i never "saw" anything but like stated above, it certainly wasn't an alcohol buzz!!