Originally Posted by
alanw
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I can attest from personal experience that the real stuff does pack a whallop, though I don't know if I'd say it's particularly hallucinogenic. It's absolutely a different kind of drunk, though, than your more run-of-the-mill alcohol. Let's just say it involved several policemen and a lot of pepper spray.
Just spit up my (non-alcoholic) drink!
Definitely noticed with friends' major differences between distilled "drunk", liquor and spirits and fermented "drunk", beer and wine. Many friends become a little more "belligerent" with distilled, and often a little "sleepier" with fermented. Completely anecdotal, of course.
We had absinthe this summer in Prague. No particular hallucinogenic effects and seemed to be more powerful than jagermeister.