Get Your Oolong On
August, 2008
AFTER BEING BLAMED for everything from madness and suicide to awful poetry, absinthe was outlawed in most places by the early 1900s. It has enjoyed a romantic and dangerous reputation ever since. Remind you of any rock stars? Marilyn Manson has long been a fan of the anise-and-wormwood scapegoat, so much so that he has spent the past few years fine-tuning his own brand with a Swiss distiller. Called Mansinthe ($56, mansinthe.com), it's the real deal, which means real wormwood and a high thujone...
