| With so many people taking a closer look at | | | | either, because wormwood doesn't any have |
| absinthe and considering sending off for their first | | | | worms in it. It originaly got its name, because |
| try of this mysterious tonic, many are wondering | | | | people used it to kill intestinal parasites. Anyway, |
| about a few things such as its reputed | | | | while the taste is somewhat bitter, it is only mildly |
| “bitter” taste. They are also wondering | | | | so. |
| about the effects of absinthe due to the fact | | | | It is for this reason that Absinthe doesn't really |
| that it contains thujone a psychoactive | | | | work well as a liquor to be mixed in any type of |
| “ingredient”. | | | | mixed drink. There is a traditional way of drinking |
| Absinthe was first formulated and marketed as a | | | | absinthe that involves drizzling dissolved sugar into |
| therapeutic tonic and medical elixir back in the late | | | | it and then downing it in a “shot”. |
| 1700s in Switzerland. Back then, if a drug, tonic or | | | | However; you will probably find that it is best |
| medicine didn't taste bad then people would | | | | drank as a quick shot and then followed by a |
| assume when they took their first sip that it was | | | | drink of a carbonated soda. |
| ineffective. This meant that the bitter taste of | | | | Absinthe is green and has a taste that people |
| absinthe was considered a positive attribute when | | | | describe as being similar to licorice and many |
| people first tasted it. | | | | people develop an actual liking for the taste of |
| Its the wormwood that is responsible for its mildly | | | | absinthe. Even more people yet, develop a |
| bitter taste and also for its “different” | | | | “liking” for the effects of the thujone that |
| intoxicating effects that are the result of thujone | | | | absinthe contains. |
| that is contained in the wormwood. Don't worry | | | | |