Originally Posted by kane

Ah, thanks for the info. I knew the US version was lacking something. Many years ago I met a guy that made his own absinthe. He grew the herbs and imported what he couldn't grow himself. At the time I was writing for a magazine and several of us got a bottle from him and drank it one night. I was pretty fucked up that night for sure. One of my editors fell off the couch and broke her wrist. She didn't even feel it until the next morning. I don't know that I would drink it regularly, but it made for a good story for the magazine though.