Alright, it’s getting to be summer here in the US. Time for picnics, BBQ’s, and cook outs. Time to fire up the grill, turn baseball on the radio, and sit back with a nice glass of…. Absinthe?

Yep, that’s right. www.mypopcornmachine.com is selling an absinthe home-brewing kit. Even though you can’t buy the supposedly-hallucinogenic drink this side of Amsterdam, you can make your own tripping-brew at home. The kit comes with two packets of what My Popcorn Machine calls the ‘finest-quality’ organic herbs, plus some sugar and a filtration system. Basically, you put the first pack of herbs (the main extract) into the filter, and into a liter of generic alcohol to soak for five days. Then afterward, you soak the second pack of herbs (the flavoring) along with the sugar cubes in the alcohol for an additional three days.

After all this, you get green absinthe… basically a super-strong version of the alcohol you put in to start. It probably tastes bad, and probably is too strong to actually drink in any real quantities (think paint thinner), but then again, it is absinthe (and it is pretty cool).

You can see the kit and the description at: http://www.mypopcornmachine.com/ab.html