Marilyn Manson launches drink to less than rave reviews

by Ellen Slattery, Posted Feb 16th 2008 @ 11:00AM

If you are Marilyn Manson and you decide to launch a line of absinthe, what do you call it?

Why, Mansinthe, of course.

The drink is made in Switzerland, and, despite the U.S.'s recent lift on the absinthe ban that has been in place for 80 years, is not yet legal in America.

Epicurious recently conducted a taste test of the drink, and the results were less than desirable. Several tasters described Mansinthe as "oily," one called its color "pale and green in color, like the fourth horse of the Apocalypse."

Some eloquently compared the aroma to "sewage" or "swamp mud." And the overall responses in the test's "flavor" category were so hilarious, I had to print them here, word for word:

"Main flavor is just plain."
"Yuck. Sour + bitter"
"If you don't smell it, the taste is good. A little woodsy, but not too much"
"Holy sh*t, is this poison?"

So, there you have it, folks. Everyone thought it reeked of bathroom waste and three out of the four tasters thought it tasted like crap. Drink at your own risk...preferably while brooding and listening to "The Dope Show" at full volume.

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Tags: absinthe, ban, epicurious, marilyn manson, MarilynManson, spirits, switzerland, wormwood

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2-16-2008 @1:06PM cydeweyz said... http://www.stgeorgespirits.com/AbsintheVerteMovie.htm
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2-16-2008 @7:14PM Kevitivity said... Several win shops here in Los Angeles sell Absinth.
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2-17-2008 @12:32AM Jeremy said... Traditional absinthe is still illegal in the U.S.; there has been no change in the law. Instead, entrepreneurial minds realized that by filtering out thujone, the illegal ingredient in absinthe, they could sell "absinthe" in America. So the absinthe you buy off the shelf at your local liquor store isn't actually absinthe, but a modified form of the drink.
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2-17-2008 @12:33AM cydeweyz said... Jeremy is confused-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z34OacpM_UA
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2-17-2008 @3:05PM Rio Yeti said... Hey all, I've been lurking on slashfood for a while, becoming more and more a foodie myself !
This is my first post, but I had to react, being french, and an absintheur, I have tasted quite a lot of different absinthes, including a Pernod Fils dating from 1910. We (the french absinthe community) were all very dubious when Manson created his absinthe, and were all expecting it to be exactly how epicurious has described it... However, to everyone's surprise it turned out to be a very authentic tasting absinthe, very well balanced, and although not immensely subtle, still a great harmony.

So I am very surprised at that review, and am wondering if epicurious really tasted it, or just assumed it would be bad since it is Marylin Manson's stuff...
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2-17-2008 @3:05PM Trisha Smith said... If you've ever studied pharmacology or been a bartender and learned the art of mixology you would know that thujone is dangerous, BUT, after much research over the years, it was proven that there are such minute amounts of it in absinthe that if one chose to heavily imbibe on absinthe, one would die of alcohol poisoning before dying of thujone poisoning.
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