Absinthe Blog

With the senseless prohibition on absinthe having now been lifted, it is now possible to order a shot of absenthe at your local bar if they carry it. However; if they don’t stock it, it is for good reason and that is that due to it’s cost of approximately $50-60 per bottle it is just one more expensive, trendy hooch that they have to worry about their employees guzzling.

You should be able to easily track it down at higher end establishments though and it is going to run you somewhere around $10-15 per shot. If you have never drank liquor that has an alcohol content above 80 proof then you should be aware that most absinthes are over 100 proof.

This means that absinthe is not a drink to play the “big man on campus” with or you may end up spending the night with your head in a toilet or worse yet in the padded cell at your local  jail.

If you are looking for something that will make you see hallucinations than you may have to stop by your local downtown park and buy something from the shady looking guy hanging out in the parking lot, because absinthe won’t do it.

This is because, while the absinthe that you will find for sale here in the U.S., which would be “Lucid” or Kubler is of the highest quality and made to exacting traditional specifications, it does contain a minimal amount of thujone in accordance with U.S. government standards.

Since its appearance in drinking establishments across the country some highly skilled “mix masters” have developed quite a few different absinthe cocktails and some in fact have been reported by those who have tried them to be quite palatable and strong. So, if you are ready for a timely change to something new when you are out on the town on the weekends, you may think of asking the bartender if he or she has one or more absinthe cocktails to recommend.