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[itsajar.livejournal.com]

Sorry about this, but as long as we're offering up 'constructive criticism'...
Abisinthe: It is not (typically) that awesome green colour until you add the water - which brings me to my next (and biggest) hurdle:
You do not 'shoot' abisinthe. There is a 'ritual' to the drink.

petty? maybe. But if you're gonna do it, at least do it right. If nothing else it totally rips the scene open with the lot of you smarming around knocking back this noble potable like cheap tequila.

And i'm not trying to pick, but I guarandamntee you if someone were RP'ing precious Harry Potter constantly in a Hawaiian shirt with a gun, you'd pipe in.

/rant.

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[surexit.livejournal.com]

How do you drink it? I don't drink, so I'm completely at sea, and Bartleby really does dtink. :D

-Bartleby

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

There are a lot of ways to take absinthe, but the most common/well-known is to pour a shot of absinthe into a specialised glass, place a slotted spoon over the glass with a sugar cube on it, and pour water over the sugar cube into the glass. This turns the absinthe from a clear or light green colour to a cloudy seafoam green, and allows the herbs and oils in the alcohol to expand (the colour change is, I believe, a reaction between the water and the wormwood oil in the drink, which incidentally is toxic and can cause hallucinations, convulsions, and brain damage...)

Then you drink the absinthe -- it's more of a sipping drink than a shooting drink, but I've seen people knock a cupful back pretty quickly. Course that's American absinthe, which is different, cos European absinthe is banned for sale in America due to the abovementioned toxic element in the drink.

You can drink some brands neat, cos they have the sugar already added. It's rather nastily alcohol-tasting, though.

Other flavours you can add to absinthe include anise (common), licorice (less common) and coriander (also less common).

[surexit.livejournal.com]

Ooooh. Must find an excuse to drink absinthe now, and look knowledgeable.

-Bartleby

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

It looks like a very fun drink -- I've never done it personally, but I've served it before. If you watch the movies Wilde or Total Eclipse (the latter of which has a naked slapfight between David Thewlis and Leonardo DiCaprio in it, bonus) you can see the process in action.

[anthy-rosebride.livejournal.com]

That could be when Bartleby turns into a cow. :D

[surexit.livejournal.com]

Good idea. *grins*

[anthy-rosebride.livejournal.com]

*considers* Would now be a good time for that, or not?

[surexit.livejournal.com]

Sure. Go for it. Do I do anything to piss you off, or just stand around?

[anthy-rosebride.livejournal.com]

Anthy will just be bored, I guess. I'll start a new thread (in here, since it's not allowed in the actual bar).

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Were people shooting absinthe? I hadn't seen it...

I did wonder if the people drinking absinthe understood the mechanics behind it, but I hadn't seen anyone tossing it back like cheap whiskey :D Sirius is always careful to serve it as the customer prefers (ie, he usually asks "sugar or no sugar" and "would you like me to pour").

Absinthe is GREEN (or yellow)

[spiderine.livejournal.com]

It *is* green until you add the sugared water. Then it becomes opalescent, which is called "louche". I know because I drink it (in RL I mean, but John does too).

It can also be a kind of yellowy green if it's a different type of absinthe, which I don't like.

[miscellanny.livejournal.com]

No offense, but I'm not gonna describe the ritual every time. It'd get old, fast. *g*

I appreciate your POV, and I'm afraid that as a cheapandnasty student, the one time I've *had* absinthe we knocked it straight back. I didn't know any better! It's on my to-do list to drink it properly.

[young_tmriddle]

I think Aziraphale and Crowley would definitely knock it straight back ;) They aren't ones to mess around when they just want to get as numb drunk as fast as possible ;)