Increases the risk of cancer in the liver, pancreas, rectum, breast, mouth, pharynx, larynx and esophagus.


Scotch and alcohols are bad for health and it's legalized drugs.

And?

for someone with the name Omniscientia you sure lack knowledge. that may be true for massive consumption of alcohol, but the same could be said for over-consumption of anything, even water. as with anything, moderation is key, and alcohol in moderation has been shown to even have some health benefits, especially red wine.






well, even then the way to drink it was by adding sugar, so pre-adding it doesnt really mean much but most 'absinthe's you find today are not real absinthe as they are made with little to no wormwood. like the one i tried one time, it had only minimal thujone.

exactly, original way is with burning of the sugar, and yes I have tried some old old absinthe, and yes I have tried modern manufactured absinthe...

Just a pointless generic liqueur trading on the strenth of the name "absinthe"

people still drink it because they think it's cool to say that this is what they drank.

also same applies to manufactured alcohol using the name : moonshine

This post was edited by bloodmeal on Mar 23 2014 12:16pm

did you feel a difference? not just in taste but in effect?


i tried making my own absinthe once by steeping wormwood and various other herbs in 96% alcohol, and while it tasted practically undrinkable, i did notice a difference in effect, although not in a good way. i was feeling rather violent from it, i think, which i usually dont get from regular alcohol.

No, I said I couldn't turn down a good scotch. Chivas is just what I'm most familiar with, and it can't be too bad if it's already on your list.






Burning it is NOT the original method. That came later. Also, adding sugar to a drink that's supposed to have sugar shouldn't detract from it's value. It's probably just a marketing strategy for now, since it was recently unbanned and people don't want to bother with sugar cubes and look like an alcoholic with a special glass/spoon. Give the market time to grow and it'll become more accepted.

ah, i see.

the chivas on my list (big bottles) isnt the regular chivas. its the chivas century of malts. totally different. regular chivas id rate maybe 60-65. decent but really not that great. the century of malts id rate at 90 or higher, its an exceptional whisky. totally diffferent than the regular one and 100 times better. unfortunately, its also discontinued, so its quite hard to find. luckily, though, ive got 2 big bottles and like 25 minis of it.

about the moonshine, they have to legally get their moonshine approved to be drank by humans.. technically moonshine when made right is undrinkable. lol no way to get approved that way

and with absinthe ... same exact thing
although back then it was drank a lot more regularly and people did get violent one of the first references i remember was in the old frankenstein movie all those people chasing him with pitchforks were drinking and throwing absinthe bottles at him and lighting the windmill on fire

but its the amount. like returnformer said its about the wormwood content and how much you drink but its pretty rank

when alcohol is created there are differnet kinds of alcohols that are created, some of these alcohols are very bad for you and others are your normal drinking alcohol. take say 50 gallons of beer, there might be half a cup of that really really bad alcohol in that entire 50 gallons, so since its all diluted it dosnt matter if your drinking it.

now that really bad alcohol also tends to evaporate at a lower temperature then the rest of the alcohol.

so when you distill that 50 gallons of beer, the first alcohol that evaporates recondenses and comes out as moonshine is going to be that 1/2 a cup of pure bad stuff, that is the stuff that is un drinkable.

so you just dump that first pint to run from your still and the rest is all perfectly fine to drink.

I NEVER DRINK ALCOHOL AGAIN!!!!