Marilyn Manson's 66.6% Absinthe
Acting as a chaser for his sixth studio album Eat Me, Drink Me, America's favorite faux devil worshiper's concocted his own brand of absinthe -- right, every respectable goth 'n' vampire's favorite drink. He's calling the stuff "Mansinthe," which admittedly sounds a tad too biological, making us a wee bit uncomfortable.
The official spiel...
The official Marilyn Manson Absinthe, aptly dubbed "Mansinthe" is now officially available for purchase online. Produced in Switzerland, Mansinthe is an authentic Absinthe, distilled from fine herbs, naturally colored and not sugared. There is just ONE Mansinthe -there is NO "sans wormwood" version! Marilyn Manson was directly involved in developing this product and made changes to multiple prototypes that were sent for his review. It took a considerable amount of time to get Mansinthe to the level Manson desired. We're convinced that this Absinthe is not just ideal for newbies, but will also be appreciated by experienced Absinthe lovers.(Via Manson USA.)
Bottles of the 66.6% proof drink will feature original Manson art (Gothic font, obvs) and cost about $41. You can purchase at absinthe.de, which provides proper drinking directions (drip ice water over sugar cube, etc.) and a fun warning ("Do not drink Absinthe pure, do not light your Absinthe on fire, do not think Absinthe will make you hallucinate...").
Manson discovered the famed drink on Millennium Eve with Johnny Depp, and now drinks the potent beverage exclusively instead of regular booze.
Funny, that's exactly how we discovered the stuff ... Hi, Johnny! Anyhow, Manson seems pretty hellbent on promoting his spin on the green fairy: In an interview from the May issue of Spin, he gets the National's favorite showered-and-blue-blazered author Jonathan Ames crunk on the stuff during their cribs-style Q&A at Manson's mansion. Cool, dude, the drink part of Eat Me, Drink Me's covered -- when do we get the Manson Wonderbread?
A bigger, maybe more interesting question: How long til Craig Finn and Robert Pollard bottle their own rock 'n' roll spirits?
Posted at 12:01 PM
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mansinthe was not a good choice.
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It won't be available in the US?! Looks like I'm stuck bringing Mike's Hard Lemonade to the annual Satanic high school goth vampire party again this year.
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eeeewwww....
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I know the 66.6 proofing is supposed to be all symbolic of young Brian's antichristy badassitude, but all I can think is: Jeez, what a lightweight! Traditional absinthe is 140 proof—70% alcohol. This stuff is O'Doul's by comparison.
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Ah. I see the error here. You're using "percent" and "proof" as synonyms, and they're not.
Proof number is twice the percentage of alcohol by volume. Manson's absinthe is not 66.6 proof; it's 66.6 percent alcohol. So Mansinthe is rated at 133.2 proof.
Which is still on the light side—absinthe usually runs between 68%-70%, or 136-140 proof—but it's far closer to the mark.
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Absinthe should be 70%. Mansinthe is just emo.
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Ahhh jeez. Who cares? Who cares about Marilyn Manson? I thought his last "I hung out with Lindsay Lohan before she went out to party" story was enough to wash our hands of this trash. Ew, grandpa... you smell like old man.
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I want a jock rocker to make a line of tofu called Brofu.
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you want to drink real Absinthe, order it from Ted Breaux. He is a hero:
http://www.absintheonline.com/acatalog/Jade.html
I ordered some on a Tuesday night and it came Friday morning, all the way from France to Massachusetts.
Manson is just.. an idiot.
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At least he's diversifying. A man's got bills to pay.
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Mansinth? Why not just go the whole hog and call it Baby Gravy or something.
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I just ordered eighteen bottles. Bow down to Manson.
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Yeah Bob, Breaux is the real deal. Real expensive though.
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I thought wormwood was illegal to include in drinks both here and in the UK? Am I misinformed?
Hey, I drank Danny Devito's Limoncello last week and felt fine.
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Drink up Marilyn, I can still see you.
DwD
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"It took a considerable amount of time to get Mansinthe to the level Manson desired."
We're almost there boys! More schlocky! More goofy artwork! Find a shitty name! We're going to make this absinthe fall in line with the fine stable of Manson brand products!
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Didn't Bob Pollard almost have a deal with Rolling Rock back in the old days?
Tad Kubler got me to shoot Jager with him in Denton this past summer... let's see what Craig can come up with to destroy me. The Hold Steady almost killed me, you know...
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Not to make fun at the expense of Bob Pollard, but I'd bet his urine is a much higher proof than Manson's kool-aid.
DwD
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He looks like Karen O.
j/k
he looks filthy. Mansinthe seeping from the pores.
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"brofu" lol
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If it doesn't come with the perforated spoon, I'm not interested.
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Jack Fear, I was going to say the same thing. This is the second place I've seen "66.6% Proof" misnomered.
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This has been bumping around for it's years of development in the Manson fandom (yes, I'm a fan, wanna take this outside? GOOD!) anyway it seemed a while back from something the company that manufactured it said that they chose the name. Not him.
Now, Brofu... that sounds like a plan!
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Also, if you check the different websites that sell it, the only one that says it's 66.6% is the company's one. The others say 70%.
Just so you know.
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Evan Rachael Wood drinks mansinthe every night...and i'm not talking about the alcohol OHHHHHHH BOOYAH!
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I got your wee joke.
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As if absinthe wasn't already scary enough.
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leave manson alone he can do what the hell he likes !!
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Seems no matter what the topic is, there's all kinds of haters that come out of the woodwork to post on it. Personally, I think it's very cool of Manson to promote a wonderful product like absinthe. The more absinthe drinkers in the world, the better!
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no semen jokes yet?
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what are marylon manson's good songs again?
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funny how lucid is legal in the us, but he would want to take credit for brining it here... those of you that don't know, LUCID is the legal version of absinth and is available in NY and NJ, and coming soon everywhere else!
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I'm gonna order it just because its Parisian Absinthe. *mouth waters* :)
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think manson should come live in the uk.....well n.ireland neways cause we can buy absinthe shots in bars and clubs!!!!!!...easy peesy...though they do try to limit you to like 2 or 3 shots but the bar staff never remember so its sweet!!!!!!!!
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All right children I see a lot of shameless self indulgence in making fun of Marilyn Manson, if it makes you feel good to put the man down do it somewhere that's not supposed to be a helpful place on the net. Now has anyone actually (ACTUALLY) tried this? and if so, do you actually know what you're looking for in absinthe? and if so again is it really any good? I have read praise all over the net, and here is the only place that has put it down. I'm hoping there's a person on here that isn't just joining the bandwagon on criticizing Marilyn and will be able to help me with a sincere review of the absinthe.
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It's a Swiss style absinthe. And on some websites it is offered with an absinthe spoon
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Mansinthe!
i cant find the stuff anywhere. is it legal in Scotland? or just in the usa?
i have an absinthe spoon, its on its last legs though (gets set on fire a lot)
x
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i just bought mansinth, i ordered it on the 10th of nov, i think, and i recieved it the morning of the 15th, from germany to phoenix. shipping is rediculous.
i have no idea what to look for in absinthe. i just wanted to try it. fyi, if purchased from the absinthe.de website, it does come with the absinthe spoon, and somehow i ended up with a trial bottle of absinthe duplais (0.04 L) i think. i think the 66.6 % is just for show, because the duplais stuff is marked 72%, and i tried both that and the mansinthe, each with a sugar cube but in the mansinthe i did 1 part absinthe 2 parts water, as opposed to the duplais where i did half and half, and the mansinthe shit kicked my ass as far as the burn in the throat and insides. . . the mansinthe has a much more potent taste.
i compare absinthe's taste to jagermiester mixed with vodka, or anise/black licorice exctract dumped into a bottle of rubbing alcohol. i believe its $52 USD, and shipping was like $60 or some crazy shit.
i havn't heavily drank this stuff yet, but i estimate i had about 2 oz of it, watered down, of course, as stated above, but i felt it was a different kind of drunk. it was like liquid calm. i didn't hallucinate but i felt like my head/mind was cleared and i felt more creative, mellow. (im naturally spaztic, adhd ish.) i found the expirience of the effect pleasant, but the drinking was something you gotta choke down, for me. perhaps this is just because i am unaccustomed to such things and it will take some time to get used to.
this is illegal in the u.s. hence the reason why you have to purchase it from europe. its illegal to sell from inside the u.s., not to buy, so no one gets in trouble, but if your package is opened at u.s. customs and they sometimes do, then more than likely it will be confiscated since its not allowed to be imported. and you dont get your money back. i consider my self lucky.
hmm, what else. . . my box that arrived had the mansinthe (0.7L), the duplais (0.04L) , the absinthe spoon, and 20 or so postcards of the painting on the label and of some other neat stuff.
in conclusion, unless you like your alcohol raw, like straight vodka, for example, i wouldn't suggest absinthe. even watered down and sugared up, it messes with your gag reflexes if you are not a trained alcoholic. and i havnt heard of other ways to drink it, tho, obviously im sure you could do it however you wanted. its expensive for that though, and really, it wont make u hallucinate. but it plays with your frame of mind.
fun fact: absinthe back in the day that made people hallucinate, was not because of the absinthe, but because of the chemicals/poisons added to it to bring out the green color. what with health codes yadaydayda, they dont add poison anymore. . .
worth trying at least once though. . .
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i just bought mansinth, i ordered it on the 10th of nov, i think, and i recieved it the morning of the 15th, from germany to phoenix. shipping is rediculous.
i have no idea what to look for in absinthe. i just wanted to try it. fyi, if purchased from the absinthe.de website, it does come with the absinthe spoon, and somehow i ended up with a trial bottle of absinthe duplais (0.04 L) i think. i think the 66.6 % is just for show, because the duplais stuff is marked 72%, and i tried both that and the mansinthe, each with a sugar cube but in the mansinthe i did 1 part absinthe 2 parts water, as opposed to the duplais where i did half and half, and the mansinthe shit kicked my ass as far as the burn in the throat and insides. . . the mansinthe has a much more potent taste.
i compare absinthe's taste to jagermiester mixed with vodka, or anise/black licorice exctract dumped into a bottle of rubbing alcohol. i believe its $52 USD, and shipping was like $60 or some crazy shit.
i havn't heavily drank this stuff yet, but i estimate i had about 2 oz of it, watered down, of course, as stated above, but i felt it was a different kind of drunk. it was like liquid calm. i didn't hallucinate but i felt like my head/mind was cleared and i felt more creative, mellow. (im naturally spaztic, adhd ish.) i found the expirience of the effect pleasant, but the drinking was something you gotta choke down, for me. perhaps this is just because i am unaccustomed to such things and it will take some time to get used to.
this is illegal in the u.s. hence the reason why you have to purchase it from europe. its illegal to sell from inside the u.s., not to buy, so no one gets in trouble, but if your package is opened at u.s. customs and they sometimes do, then more than likely it will be confiscated since its not allowed to be imported. and you dont get your money back. i consider my self lucky.
hmm, what else. . . my box that arrived had the mansinthe (0.7L), the duplais (0.04L) , the absinthe spoon, and 20 or so postcards of the painting on the label and of some other neat stuff.
in conclusion, unless you like your alcohol raw, like straight vodka, for example, i wouldn't suggest absinthe. even watered down and sugared up, it messes with your gag reflexes if you are not a trained alcoholic. and i havnt heard of other ways to drink it, tho, obviously im sure you could do it however you wanted. its expensive for that though, and really, it wont make u hallucinate. but it plays with your frame of mind.
fun fact: absinthe back in the day that made people hallucinate, was not because of the absinthe, but because of the chemicals/poisons added to it to bring out the green color. what with health codes yadaydayda, they dont add poison anymore. . .
worth trying at least once though. . .
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I think that the new drink is magnifacent, and ofcourse the product tastes good thak you manson for your greate tasting elixer.
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manson your drink is so good it gives me a nice buzz but not a halucination,thanks.
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sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo fucking "HOT"
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sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo fucking "HOT"
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sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo fucking "HOT"
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wow...it was good...didnt c nuthin tho....=(
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