Ever here of "absenth" not sure of the spelling. It has been illegal for over 100 years. Ever see that famous picture of all the drunks wandering the streets in france during the time of it's height. Well as I said befor in earlier post I was a bartender for 12 years. They were still using wormwood the key ingrediant in vermouth bottles up until the mid 1970's. The owner of a place I used to work in had some lying around in his private stock. I was out of it for 2 whole days. Missed work and all and the manager was going to fire me because I didn't show up. I told him to call the owner, he did and I didn't get fired. LOL. Crazy stuff.
It's called absinthe. We had it all over eastern and central Europe. In Prague even in the early-90's you could buy it in petrol stations. http://www.absinth.com/ Never understood what the big deal was. Always seemed almost like two shots tequila, two beers and two skunky blunts. Then maybe with some good hashish thrown in for good measure. But who canât handle that? Much better than drinking that heinous concoction known as absinthe. ((shudder))
From what I understand all absinth being produced today is not made from wormwood the ingrediant that causes the hallicinations. We bought a bottle for our bar just for a conversation and marketing. The real stuff though is quite a different story and you may be right in getting it in Prague, but forget about in the US.
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I was stuck in backpacking hostel in Prague with a bunch of American and Canadian tourists drinking Absenthe for a week. Never again. It might sound cool, but it really does tast like crap. And wipes you out. Not overly pleasent. Van Gough cut his ear off after drinking it you know. Runningbear