For years Marilyn Manson has passed himself off as anaficionado of absinthe, the notorious liquor that rotted the brains of vastly more talented people like Van Gogh and Arthur Rimbaud. He probably doesn’t even like the nasty stuff (I see him as more of a Seven and Seven man), but absinthe fit nicely with his overly cultivated image, and Manson even talked about sponsoring his own brand of absinthe—sort of like one of Britney’s trademark fragrances, only more poisonous. Well, Mansinthe has finally arrived, and it really sucks. That’s the ruling of the tasting panel at Epicurious, which found the product substandard in terms of color, “louche” (your guess is as good as mine), flavor, and finish. However, the big problem—and the parallel with Britney’s trademark fragrances seems inescapable—is the odor:
So did Mansinthe have what it takes to be a premium absinthe? According to the tasters, the answer is, sadly, no. The No. 1 problem was the aroma, which some verbally compared to sewage water or swamp mud, but with the exception of a lone taster, the panel felt it wasn’t really worth wading through the odor to get to mediocre flavor anyway.
Most of you won’t be tasting this stuff anytime soon, because it’s illegal to sell Mansinthe in the United States. Apparently every once in a while the government gets something right.
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Check your facts before trying (and failing) to impugn the beverage. YES, Manson is a total douche who Hot Topicked his way to success (and subsequent obscurity), but the non-Manson varieties are quite good and have zero psychoactivity except for what ALL high alcohol drinks do to you.
Who’s impugning the beverage? All I said was that Manson’s version of absinthe sucked. And the drink’s reputation for brain-rotting was enough to get it banned just about everywhere by 1920, even though its alleged evil was almost pure media hype.
Now that I think about it, it’s the perfect liquor for Marilyn Manson.
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Well I’ve tried some very high-end Absinthe, and it was vile beyond the ken of mortals. Seriously, it turned my mouth into a place where old spiders go to die. It must have gotten me drunk, though, because I foolishly tried another kind, and it was just as bad.
The people at La Fee Absinthe, though, are very nice. When I wrote a post about Mansinthe, they actually offered my readers a discount to taste for themselves! And they couldn’t have been more polite about it.
(may I be forgiven? Linkage below, delete if you wish)
http://raincoaster.com/2007/08/10/mansinthe-booze-o-the-day/
Is this an epidemic? My last two posts are about absinthe. (Oh click my name! Click my name!!) I didn’t do Manson’s (didn’t know he had one and if I did I wouldn’t have had it anyway). I tried “Lucid” which is a French-made brand created in the same equipment designed by that Eiffel dude.
It isn’t something I’d do all the time but it’s not too bad. The presence of thujone (a product of wormwood) is what people worried about, but I can’t see that being anything. The fact that a pure shot of it is 65% alcohol might explain some of the behavior better, yeah.
It’s my understanding that you have to adjust the levels. I used 1 shot of absinthe to 4 shots of ice water over 2 sugar cubes to get a taste that I could honestly say was “ok”, which I adjusted from the 1-5-1 I used in the (hic) first glass. It was on my “bucket list” so, y’know, what the hell.
It’s fine and I can see adding it to my cabinet, but I wouldn’t go out of my way for it.
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