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Absinthe has long been the subject of myth and fiction, lies and adoration. It was enormously popular during the Bell Epoque, the latter half of the 1800's and into the early 1900's in France, particularly Paris. It was favored by impressionists and artists, and working people, and sex workers, and the proletariate, and Bolsheviks and revolutionaries, and etc. It had none of the aristocratic trappings of wine, and so it was enjoyed by anyone who couldn't afford to pretend to aristocracy or who flatly despised the notion of aristocrats.
It was banned through a concerted effort by French wine companies to put their competition out of business, they created a moral panic surrounding the consumption of Absinthe using bogus research trumped up by a guy called Doctor Magnan. The wine companies managed to co-opt a growing global temperance movement and thus good upstanding French wine triumphed over degenerate working class absinthe.
The funny thing about the lies the wine companies told about Absinthe is that they stuck. The forbidden fruit is sweet, and in outlawing Absinthe people got it into their heads that there must be something outright amazing about the stuff. The Green Fairy, long used in advertising and in poetic musings about Absinthe, become something almost real in peoples minds. Absinthe surely must have been a dangerous hallucinogen, how else can you explain the ban, or impressionistic art for that matter? Well it's not. It never was. In this episode is hope to put these myths to rest, briefly cover the reasons for the ban and how it was effected, and also to taste a few examples of modern absinthe. In this episode I'll be tasting: Pernod, St. George, La Muse Verte, Doc Herson's, and Letherbee Charred Oak Absinthe Brun. They're all pretty great, but I do pick a favorite in the video.
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"...usually the people in power get very concerned any time the working class has time to sit around and discuss politics"
Facts.
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âAfter the first glass of absinthe you see things as you wish they were. After the second you see them as they are not. Finally you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world." - Oscar Wilde
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"Absinthe is making good upstanding woman to tear off their clothes and throw themselves at degenerate artists!"
I think they were just hammered.
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He's the Gothest Lumberjack
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I always heard that Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.
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Honestly? Honestly.
Can we get a Greg spinoff series where he discusses movies? The way he talks about movies and the movies he likes sometimes makes me wanna hear him talk more about 'em.
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Having had absinthe literally hundreds of times I can tell you that while I've never seen or heard things that weren't there ('hallucinations') the things I saw and heard, especially music and things that were colorfully lit like Christmas trees were much more clear and vibrant. It is a very specific feeling, nothing else I have ever consumed gives me the heightened sense of awareness that absinthe does. And yeah, your Pernod has gone off. If it's not green, it's been in that bottle far too long.
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Wormwood got its name from its medicinal use - getting rid of intestinal worms. Originally it was added to alcohol for its medicinal value. Not only does it impart bitterness to Absinthe, but to Vermouth too - in fact the word "Vermouth" is derived from "vermout" the French word for wormwood (wemut in German). So if you think Absinthe is psychedelic, then so is Vermouth.
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I think we need pictures of goth Greg.
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"The ticking of the balancier is designed to make sure that you are aware of the hours of your life ticking away, and that you are aware that you are truly mortal and susceptible to the ravages of time and that life is but a joke played upon us by whatever powers that must exist." I must be French, because I agree. :p
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I had heard of the hallucinogenic properties of absinthe and decided to take a few shots of it within an hour and a half. As someone who has taken plenty of shrooms and lsd, I was looking for specific mental points that never occurred. That being said, being in a state of drunk, the art of suggestion strikes heavily on the human brain
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One of my favorite absinthe cocktails is 1 oz absinthe, over light ice, then slowly fill with ginger beer or ginger ale, usually to just under fill. If done right, the opalescent effect can be maintained. My bartender friend calls it the Ginger Fairy.
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Dude, I was a goth in Philly and spent almost every Wednesday at Nocturne back in the early 2000s! I knew you looked familiar!
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I think the fact that he quoted Bauhaus's Bela Lugosi's Dead instantly made this video a 10/10.
Literally no body does that.
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner:
1/4 shot Absinthe
3/4 shot Grand Mariner
3/4 shot Cinnamon Whiskey
1 3/4 shot Aged Rye Whiskey
Juice of 1 blood orange or lemon
Shaken over ice and strained
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The master distiller of St. George is in a video here on YouTube called Obsessives: Absinthe. He brought up a great point about the experience of using a dripper as a counter to impatience some may feel. You go sit out on the porch, mid afternoon on a Sunday or something, kick back, and watch the water drip into your glass as almost a mood thing. It's relaxing and gets you ready to chill out
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"Originated from Switzerland, Neuchâtel canton"
Finally, someone who did his research ! Thank you :D
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âThe powers that be tend not to like it too much when the working class has leisure time to sit and talk about politicsâ
âThey blamed it on immigration, itâs always been the same problemâ
I stg Greg this channel gets more fuckin based every time
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Dude, I lived in Portugal for some years, went to a festival with my wife and tried pure shots of absynthe 70° there, dude, it went in pretty nicely, but when it came back... Jeez, I thought I was about to spit fire lol
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