- Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.
(Claps)
Yes!
- Beautiful.
- Play the bloody--
- Beautiful.
(medieval music)
- We're here to have a nice few casual little drinks.
Nothing major.
A few handy ones, I believe we're having,
what is it we're having?
- We're gonna drink absinthe.
- Absinthe. Sure look it, casual Monday.
- Have you ever had absinthe?
- No.
- Really?
- No, 'cause I have sense.
- You never have a good experience on absinthe.
I've never met a single person who's gone,
"You know, I had a great night on absinthe."
- Oooh.
- Look at that for a sexy bottle!
- Look how fancy that, that
looks like a bottle of olive oil
- Isn't it like a pirate's peg?
(pirate voice) Argh, Jim, lad. We're goin' to drink abinsthe today!
- Mistaco Speziale.
- Absinthe Elixir, Vitae.
That's elixir of life.
- I mean, so, obviously we're gonna feel better
after drinking it.
- I just want to know one thing.
- What?
- What's the horse power?
- Jesus. I'll give you one guess.
It's 120 proof.
(sniffing)
- What?
- 60%.
- This is 60%, this is absolutely fine.
This is like something you'd give your granny.
- Only 60%? Vodka is like 40%.
- Yeah, I know but this shit goes up to like 90%.
- You're startin' us with 60?
You're startin' on me, are ya?
- Oh, it smells like chewing gum.
It's like minty. That's gorg.
(gagging)
- Have we glass, have we glasses?
- This is totally something you'd have
after you'd have like a nice meal.
- Or a divorce.
- This is gonna be a feckin' roulette video now, isn't it?
- Whew.
- Oh, no.
- I'm getting drunk off the fumes.
(Clinking Glasses)
- Oh, fuckin' hell.
- Whew.
(Groaning)
- Oh, that's like petrol.
- No, it's lovely.
(groaning)
- That'd kill a vampire.
- Yeah.
- Whoa.
(Dracula impression) Bleuh!
(laughing)
- Science needs to look into you because...
How can you, how can your taste buds be so different?
You don't feel the burning?
- No. It tastes like.
- Do you have a tongue?
- It tastes like it's clarifying your mouth.
You know, if you like do a mouth wash rinse?
That's what it tastes like.
- I quite liked the mintiness, I'm not gonna lie.
But Jesus, it burns for an awful long time
after you stop drinking it.
- I bet the other ones won't drink it.
- No, they won't.
Jeez, They wouldn't drink milk.
Eh, is yours?
- We wanna wake the day up.
- I'm assuming the percentage is only gonna go up?
- Oh, my God my, this is gonna sound really weird,
my brain just got really warm.
- Oh, that's good stuff.
Whew.
(medieval music)
- Whew
- Ah, this is what we want. There's that sexy fairy.
- Yeah, it's gotta be green.
- And do you know a little about this one?
The aul' initials are on the back "Absinthe J.S. Green."
It's like it was built for me.
- And this is what we think of
when we think of absinthe.
Being dirty petrol green.
- Yeah.
- Lookin' thing with a fairy on the front of it.
- It's like looking through a pane glass window, isn't it?
You know, you know, in the churches.
- It is a piece of art.
- Isn't it?
- It's 70%.
- Yeah, it's very pretty.
- Holy shit, this is even stronger than the last one.
- What's that one?
- 70.
- 70 horsepower.
- 140 proof.
- We're going up. That's the right way.
(bottle pops)
- Oh.
- Oh yeah, all right. I'll give you that one.
- That was a good one
- I would feel better about it if it were clear.
With green stuff its just like (mimicking dropping sound).
- Yeah surely the stronger it is, the clearer it gets.
- Exactly.
- It's actually tradition, you know what you do with this?
- What?
- Have you ever seen what you do with that?
- No.
- You float it in it.
- No.
- No, yeah you do that. You float it in it.
- You do not.
- Okay. That's what you do.
No, you.
(laughing)
- It does float in fairness.
- You're so thick. Why did you do that?
(laughing)
- Oh, no, no, no I didn't mean to do that.
(laughing)
Take some, take some.
- I'm tryna think. It's weird,
when I think about absinthe,
all the memories are hazy which is kind of makes sense.
- I'm just gonna do it. I'm just gonna do it.
Devil be damned.
- Okay.
- What d'ya think of that, Seán? - Not a bother, not a bother.
- Little cabbage on it there. Keep 'er green.
- We're Ciara. We're Ciara.
- We're Ciara.
- Let's try to do our best Ciaras.
- [Both] Cheers.
(glass clinking)
- Oh, yeah.
- Whew.
- Now there's a much heavier burn to that, isn't there?
(coughing)
- It's fine.
- You might as well be saying,
"how was the petrol, Ciara?"
"I dunno now, that wasn't bad."
- Yeah. Yeah it's a little bit stronger.
- Ring your best friend's mother.
- Again?
- We're going on a date. That is lovely, isn't it?
- It kind of leaves a coating,
(coughing)
on your teeth and mouth.
- How does she do that?
(coughing)
- Uh, is that the future?
Could you cancel the present?
And tell Mr. Morals he wont be needed.
- Nope
- We're losing flavour and gaining strength.
- Yeah.
- That's what's happening here.
- Just a little bit of, oh.
- This was just like yuck burny. It's exactly what,
(burping)
you'd expect absinthe to taste like.
Just came up a bit there.
- We are suckin' diesel, boy.
(medieval music)
- I knew it was gonna be red.
- 75%, we're going up in the world.
We're going up in the world,
- It says all the same things.
- and down in our compos mentis.
- Do you know Mark Twain said that the best way
to cheer yourself up is to cheer someone else up.
- Ah.
- I think we just found the solution.
- Can we light it on fire?
- No. (laughs)
- Oh, this doesn't smell like anything.
- Don't make the same mistake here.
(gagging)
- Smell it.
- Oh, yeah.
- How's that for ya?
- She smells, doesn't she?
- Do you know what?
Some times when the percentage goes up,
the taste goes down.
And you think you're okay.
- And you're not.
- And the next thing, you're chewing your own face.
- I can do this, I can do this. I'm a.
- Think Ciara.
- I am Ciara.
- A drop in that, John.
- Are you for real? Look at it.
- It'll make ya.
- Yeah, but this isn't a shot glass.
- There are four other TRYers out there
lookin' at you going,
"ah, you're nothing but a city splitch."
Three, two, one. Sláinte to ya, sir.
(glasses clinking)
- There she is. Whew! Straight out the exhaust.
- Yeah, you kinda feel it in your nose, can't you?
- You can, yeah.
- Now, now, right.
See that smile that you have in your face?
You're like "fuck."
- I won't shave for a month.
- You are literally like, "I made a huge mistake."
- It was okay going in, and now it,
it's just getting worse, and worse, and worse, and worse.
(gagging)
- I think the taste is like also softer.
- Oh, my God, that burns.
- Oh, it's coming out every orifice.
- If I'm not seeing the fairy, no-one's seen the fairy at this stage.
- No, no.
- I might be beaten at this stage.
Can you cut to the, can you cut to the other ones?
- There's no way your-- there's, there's-- you can't.
- Seán, can you cut to the other ones now
and see if they've had more?
- You all right?
- No, I'm all right.
- Okay.
- I'm okay.
- How would you make a cocktail with absinthe?
- Do you know what? My favorite of the bunch.
- Would ya fuck off?
(laughing)
(coughing)
- Whoa, don't push it.
You never push absinthe like that.
It'll always push ya back.
(medieval music)
- Oh, shit.
- Now that's a bottle.
- No.
No.
- 80%.
- Poison. Look at it.
You could stab someone with that.
- Seán having a shot?
- Seán, will you have one?
- Will you have one with us?
- [Seán] No.
- Why? Why? Why?
- Ah Seán, come on.
- I feel like I should have a quill
and I'm gonna write like, a really erotic poem.
- Write your fuckin' will.
Write your will, it's what you wanna do.
- An erotic will.
(laughing)
- I speel like a spay-- I speel like a Space Odyssey 2000.
(laughing)
- You know a Space Odyssey? The rock.
- "I speel like a Space Odyssey 2000."
- What was their USP when they were making this?
Did they just go, "listen, were gonna make a drink
that is so violently disgusting,
but it gets you hospitalized."
- Oh, she just fell off. She.
(laughing)
- "She just fell off."
- How bad can it be? 80%, we've done worse.
- Have we?
- Honestly.
You've done worse when there hasn't been a camera on you.
I've seen your Only Fans.
(laughing)
- Let's do it.
- We doing this? We are.
- Yeah, okay.
- Are we literally saying "sayonara"
to the rest of our evening?
Because mother of god. 80%?
- Speak for yourself. It'll be fine.
- Up to the Try Channel! Come on, Johnathan!
To the top of Mount Everest. Come on, sir.
- Wait, ju, just.
- There's people up there now wanting a photograph of me.
Sláinte to ya!
(glasses clinking)
(coughing)
- That's probably the best of them.
- I love your mother.
(groaning)
- Give me a second chance.
- It was your last chance.
- Oh, I love it.
- Oh, god.
- Oh, no. Oh, no.
(tapping)
- Oh, no.
- It is, it's really nice.
- Yeah, yeah, it's way better than the other ones.
- Just a burp.
- No, no. Don't, don't.
- Oh, no.
- I don't know how it possible
to get this drunk in this quick of time.
- She's a trouble maker.
- Everything is sweating. Everything.
Like everything.
- Yeah I'm actually nice and warm.
- [Producer] How does this compare to the Four Loko?
- It's not as manic.
- You need VR.
If you had VR.
- The subtle balance between the licorice flavour
and the heat and the consistency of that
is just marvelous.
I could drink that now all day.
- Look at you go.
- ♪ Well, how do you do, young Willie McBride? ♪
♪ do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside ♪
♪ rest for a while 'neath the warm summer sun. ♪
♪ I've been walkin' all day and I'm nearly done. ♪
(cheering)
- I'll tell you know why I got I got a fright.
- Why?
- 'Cause I had me eyes closed under the glasses
and then I opened them and couldn't see a lick
and I was like "uh, oh"
and then I was like "no, its the glasses."
- It went down slightly easier for me than the red.
Burned for way longer and a lot harder,
but now I'm really warm, like, all here I'm so warm.
- But like I'm not hallucinating.
Unless Brian was never here.
In which case, who are you?
- I think this was the best one of every drinkers
is probably the last one, isn't it?
- Yeah. - Why do you think that is?
(John stuttering) - It gives you perspective.
- I think he's drunker than he's letting on.
- I'm very sober, thank you very much.
- Doubt it. No, I can see it in your eyes.
- I, I keep wanting to do this.
Which I feel is just the poster child for absinthe.
- I'm gonna push you off the chair.
- Don't you dare.
(laughing)
- I literally feel like I could.
- Nice horsepower though, nice horsepower.
- Thanks, thanks, thanks.
- If you drink absinthe for fun, who hurt you?
- Absinthe.
(laughing)
- Listen, if you enjoyed watching Ciara
talking about absinthe.
-Tell 'em what to do.
(laughing)
- Fuckin' told you I'd do it.
- Sorry, Brian's not available. He had to go outside.
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