Absinthe: Quite disappointed

[Savingsupertokyo]

The Absinthe King Gold (http://www.laboheme.uk.com/index.html) my friends and I ordered finally arrived the other day, much to our collective glee. Friday night (tonight) finally rolled around and everyone was looking forward to hallucinating and - hopefully! - burning the house down. Or something of the sort.

We made all the correct preparations that we read about online: soaked sugar in absinthe carmalized it and then mixed said sugar in with the shot on absinthe. Well, the fifth was finished (or technically 700 ml I suppose, not a fifth) and there was no hallucinating of any sort at all. I was decently drunk, but that was more from the 140 proof than anything I'm sure. (Side note: the extra 5.5% of alcohol in 151 makes an exponential amount of difference in terms of how much the alcohol burns on the way down.)

This King Gold has 10 times the amount of thujone as normal absinthe and I felt nothing! It wasn't even making me feel creative like it's allegedly supposed to... it's not like I took a shot and then ran around the house looking for an easel and charcoal in order to express my feelings on post-modern independent thinking. Do you think it would be possible for me to contact the US Ambassador to the Czech Republic and demand my money back? I bet that would be an interesting conversation :blink:

The only side effect seems to be that I am incredibly laid back and mellow at the moment - I was even forced to leave the party I was at because I couldn't stand the loud music and number of people. Which is definitely weird for me.

In any case, before I go to bed I would just like to reiterate how disappointed I was in the absinthe and that it appears that I will be forced to return to the Holy Grail of liquors, Jack, until I can find something that even approaches its glory.
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Sorry you were disappointed. Hollywood has done a good job on showing exactly what absinthe WON'T do (see: Moulin Rouge, Eurotrip). Hallucinations are more likely to occur in some people that others. Those that are very suceptible to them are the most likely to hallucinate from absinthe. Most likely what will happen is you will get VERY drunk because of the high alcohol content. All the herbal essences in absinthe (including thujone) are there mostly for flavor and less for making you hallucinate. Think of it as a green Gin or Jagermeister.

You have to enjoy it as a flavorful liquor and not have expectations of writing Hemmingway-esque novels and painting like Picasso while chasing green faeries.