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Originally Posted by brokentelephone
Dude, as I said, I'm sure I've had 'real' absinthe. The group of buddies I've drank it with are all major whiskey drinkers, so I would imagine that their passion for booze would translate when purchasing absinthe. Buying alcohol is very different in London than in Vancouver -- if you go to a great store, they simply wouldn't sell crap.
But yah, will try again.
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I can almost guarantee you that it wasn't legit. UK was the first country where the whole 'absinthe craze' started in the early 2000's. Back then, the big brand was Hill's from Czech Rep. Nobody knew better, and didn't know that they were basically drinking scope in a fancy bottle.
Trust me, I know my absinthe history.
I am 99% sure that you either had Hill's or some other brand with very little similarity to real absinthe. Those are the only brands sold in UK (and therefore BC, which based its absinthe regulations on UK).
Your friends can be the biggest whisky enthusiasts in the world; the fact is that you can't buy good absinthe in any store in UK if you tried.
And the fact that you didn't experience a secondary effect, and that you felt "intense drunkness" further proves my theory (the stuff they bought is most likely 150 proof)