http://www.brainardbrewing.com/blog/?p=290 Changing the World One Beer at a Time Mon, 09 Aug 2010 12:15:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.brainardbrewing.com/blog/?p=290&cpage=1#comment-566 Keith Brainard Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:24:31 +0000 http://www.brainardbrewing.com/blog/?p=290#comment-566 I've never had the real Absinthe, but it was the allegedly intoxicating effects of wormwood that led me to this experiment gone wrong. Haven't cut off any ears yet, though. I’ve never had the real Absinthe, but it was the allegedly intoxicating effects of wormwood that led me to this experiment gone wrong. Haven’t cut off any ears yet, though.

]]> http://www.brainardbrewing.com/blog/?p=290&cpage=1#comment-565 BobbyO Mon, 30 Jun 2008 01:09:27 +0000 http://www.brainardbrewing.com/blog/?p=290#comment-565 I eat a lot of sushi, and I worry about intestinal parasites. The traditional use for wormwood extract, or essential oil, is for treating digestive worms (worm-wood, get it?) So, a couple of times a year, I will subject myself to a 5-day, 3x/day course of wormwood extract diluted in water. 15 drops per 8-ounce glass... and even at that low concentration, it's horrible, bitter stuff. The active ingredient, thujone, is supposed to hit the same receptors in your brain as cannibus, but I never got any buzz from it. Van Gogh cut off his ear while supposedly under the influence of absinthe. You have to be intrigued by an intoxicant that can do that to you. I eat a lot of sushi, and I worry about intestinal parasites. The traditional use for wormwood extract, or essential oil, is for treating digestive worms (worm-wood, get it?) So, a couple of times a year, I will subject myself to a 5-day, 3x/day course of wormwood extract diluted in water. 15 drops per 8-ounce glass… and even at that low concentration, it’s horrible, bitter stuff. The active ingredient, thujone, is supposed to hit the same receptors in your brain as cannibus, but I never got any buzz from it. Van Gogh cut off his ear while supposedly under the influence of absinthe. You have to be intrigued by an intoxicant that can do that to you.

]]> http://www.brainardbrewing.com/blog/?p=290&cpage=1#comment-564 bryon Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:59:33 +0000 http://www.brainardbrewing.com/blog/?p=290#comment-564 I never really got the whole thing with Absinthe... It's really nasty stuff... But I guess it was worth a try making some brew out of it... I never really got the whole thing with Absinthe… It’s really nasty stuff… But I guess it was worth a try making some brew out of it…

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