Guinness. It's 10:00 here.

A good breakfast drink alone, and also makes a tasty Irish Car Bomb for lunch!

Scotty wrote:

headkicker_girl wrote:

Dude, it's 9:00 a.m. here.  I'm drinking vanilla soy milk.

Clarification, "Currently" carries two connotations around these heyah pots:

1) The penchant most High Streeters have for self medication clearly means some of us are actually drinking copious amounts of alcohol at any given time during the day.

2) It also means what is currently at the top of your Happy Hour want list.

Thread rule, since I am the OP, please provide a link to the brewery/distillery/bathtub where your concoction is created so we can learn more.

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I'm having a morning-cap of my favourite Islay tipple:

This particular nectar changed the way I relate to scotch.
Before Ardbeg I was a Highland drinker - the Macallan, etc. -sweetish, heather-toned flavours.
Ardbeg tromps across your tongue with its jackboots on: peat, iodine, smoke and fish all caught between the nails...but somehow it all balances out to create a smooth and delicious scotch.

jesusluvspegging wrote:

I'm drinking a God Damned Yuengling with my breakfast of bacon, scrambled eggs and (non-psychoactive, alas) mushrooms.

It is fantastic.

So...you're confessing to urolagnia?

Pale Ale #2 (my brew)

Wahrsteiner when I'm on the commercial stuff.

When I'm flush I prefer this:

jesusluvspegging wrote:

I haven't had that one, Emm, I'll have to hunt down a bottle.

Only the best, find it here

Akevitt right out of the freezer.

Mezcal and a padded room.

jesusluvspegging wrote:

Pulque

Honestly I don't know.  I drank stuff [alcohol] in Mesoamerica that I had very little clue about.

jesusluvspegging wrote:

Emmeran wrote:

jesusluvspegging wrote:

I haven't had that one, Emm, I'll have to hunt down a bottle.

Only the best, find it here

119 bucks?  Mary's shredded hymen, no wonder I haven't had any.

It's a two year bottle, I only have occaisional's from it - if I want more I drop down to Woodford Reserve or that ilk.

I stick with the classics:

I'm drinking Jenkem.

Patrone = Great. The only tequila I can drink way too much of and not have a hang around upon sobering. Patrone & tonic w/ a lime twist.

I recently tried Sophie's Gin and Fresca, it is actually pretty good.

There are only two drinks I'll partake of...  Straight Johnny Walker Black Label, and a dry martini made from Tanqueray gin.........

Dirckman wrote:

There are only two drinks I'll partake of...  Straight Johnny Walker Black Label, and a dry martini made from Tanqueray gin.........

If you like dry gin (as opposed to the nasty Dutch stuff), you should really try this one.
I used to go for the Tanq or the Bombay, but not any more.

Last edited by WilberCuntLicker (2008-10-29 01:46:40)

Dmtdust wrote:

I use 2 types of sugar; Serbian (superior crystals) or 'Saint Louis' from France.  Try not to use American or Canadian sugars, usually too many bleachings.

That's a lovely fountain. 

I have yet to meet an absinthe that needs sugar.  Of course, I haven't tried that many of them...

I use sugar as I like a slightly sweet taste, and as it is ermm.... traditional.  I first drank Absinthe 31 or so years ago, and no sugar was used.  I picked up the habit over time, and after investigating... 

I will drink a shot of absinthe when I am testing it.  I have some 6 varieties now in the cabinet, and they all are unique.  I am quite fond of it, I have to admit.  I don't drink hard spirits generally, except for Absinthe which I share with friends when they visit. 

The fountain adds to the ceremony, and watching the Louche, well what could be better?

Oh... and my favourite spoon ( Of which I have a large collection) The Toulouse Luatrec self designed spoon:

Reproduction.  There were only some 10 originals, and I could not afford one  (5ooo Euros last time I checked if I remember correctly). 

I do have a friend that went to visit his relatives in Switzerland (he is second generation Yank) and, he mentioned absinthe spoons.  They opened up an old cabinet, and gave him the 50 or so that they had, from the early 19th century up to the early 20th century.  Now, that makes me jealous.

I know nothing about absinthe. I do know what the spoon is used for, but the fountain? What does it do?

And louching is like steeping, I suppose? I guess I should look this up.

Mixing the water with the absinthe is also supposed to release la fee verte (the green fairy), the mellow sting in the beautiful wormwood tail. (The effect is from the thujones in the wormwood. Here, for the pharmacologically inclined:

Metabolism and action of alpha- and beta-thujones

H. Schmandke, Nuthetal

The neurotoxic alpha- and beta-thujones found in the essential oils of e. g. wormwood, sage, clary, tansy, juniper, cedar, thyme and rosemary are contained in absinthe, vermouth and spices. They block the gamma-aminobutyric acid type A receptor in dorsal root ganglion neurons resulting in epileptiform convulsions.

By cytochrome P450 system hydroxylation, orally administered thujones are mainly metabolized to 7-hydoxy-thujones, but also to 2- and 4-hydroxy-thujones. 3-Hydroxy-thujans and dehydrothujones are also formed. The hydroxy-products, after glucuronidation, are excreted via urine. These metabolites are less toxic than the initial thujones. After i.p. injection of a-thujone in mice, the brains of mice have shown higher concentrations of 7-hydroxy-a-thujone than of alpha-thujone. The relevance of this result for the mode of neurotoxic action is unclear.

A NOEL of 5 mg thujone/kg bw is only based on subchronic studies in female rats. Therefore an ADI has not been not established so far.

In Europe, maximum admissible thujone concentrations are 0.5 mg/kg in food and beverages, 5–35 mg/kg in alcoholic drinks, and 25 mg/kg in food products containing sage.

Key words: alpha-thujone / beta-thujone / metabolism

Sie finden den Artikel in deutscher Sprache in Ernährungs-Umschau 10/05 ab Seite 404.

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and more:

Detoxification of alpha- and beta-Thujones (the active ingredients of absinthe): site specificity and species differences in cytochrome P450 oxidation in vitro and in vivo.

Höld KM, Sirisoma NS, Casida JE.

Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology Laboratory, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, 114 Wellman Hall, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-3112, USA.

Alpha- and beta-Thujones are active ingredients in the liqueur absinthe and in herbal medicines and seasonings for food and drinks. Our earlier study established that they are convulsants and have insecticidal activity, acting as noncompetitive blockers of the gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)-gated chloride channel, and identified 7-hydroxy-alpha-thujone as the major metabolite and 4-hydroxy-alpha- and -beta-thujones and 7,8-dehydro-alpha-thujone as minor metabolites in the mouse liver microsome-NADPH system. We report here unexpected site specificity and species differences in the metabolism of the thujone diastereomers in mouse, rat, and human liver microsomes and human recombinant P450 (P450 3A4), in orally treated mice and rats, and in Drosophila melanogaster. Major differences are apparent on comparing in vitro microsome-NADPH systems and in vivo urinary metabolites. Hydroxylation at the 2-position is observed only in mice where conjugated 2R-hydroxy-alpha-thujone is the major urinary metabolite of alpha-thujone. Hydroxylation at the 4-position gives one or both of 4-hydroxy-alpha- and -beta-thujones depending on the diastereomer and species studied with conjugated 4-hydroxy-alpha-thujone as the major urinary metabolite of alpha- and beta-thujones in rats. Hydroxylation at the 7-position of alpha- and beta-thujones is always a major pathway, but the conjugated urinary metabolite is minor except with beta-thujone in the mouse. Site specificity in glucuronidation favors excretion of 2R-hydroxy- and 4-hydroxy-alpha-thujone glucuronides rather than those of three other hydroxythujones. Two dehydro metabolites are observed from both alpha- and beta-thujones, the 7,8 in the P450 systems and the 4,10 in urine. Two types of evidence establish that P450-dependent oxidations of alpha- and beta-thujones are detoxification reactions: three P450 inhibitors block the metabolism of alpha- and beta-thujones and strongly synergize their toxicity in Drosophila; six metabolites assayed are less potent than alpha- and beta-thujones as inhibitors of [(3)H]ethynylbicycloorthobenzoate binding to the GABA(A) receptor in mouse brain membranes and as toxicants to Drosophila.

So there you go. The thujones fuck with GABA. I'm getting some.)

Last edited by WilberCuntLicker (2008-10-29 06:04:32)

Wilber - What kind of offspring do you expect when the thujones fuck with GABA?  I have no experience with absinthe, but on general principle would love to try it.