Absinthe

I am a distilled, highly alcoholic, anise-flavored spirit derived from herbs including the flowers and leaves of the medicinal plant Artemisia absinthium, also called wormwood. Thujon, the chemical in wormwood, gives me an extra little something from other liquors that makes you more talkative and inspired when you drink me. Contrary to popular belief, my nickname, la Fée Verte, or "the green fairy," doesn't come from strong hallucinogenic properties, but mostly because of my green complexion. I do, however, tend to make everything look more significant. :)I'm best served anywhere from a 1-3 to a 1-6 ratio of me to water, with some sugar added, either through the traditional method (pour me over sugar on a slotted spoon into a glass) or the Czech method (pour me on a spoon full of sugar and light me up baby). Another popular way is to drip me over crushed ice in a sipping pipe.I've been outlawed since the early nineteen hundreds ever since that nut Van Gough chopped off his ear for a prostitute after he'd drank me. I'll take credit for his paintings, but that one was all him. Recently, though, I have become legal again in my home-continent, Europe. :DThis is one site that will ship Absinthe to the us.Here is an American author who talks a great deal about me in his new book, "All We See or Seem." I encourage all of you to check this one out! Visit my storefront to learn more