Real. It tastes just like all the ‘fake’ absinthe anise liquors, like Pernod and Pastis. Except worse.
Can you buy abisinthe legally in the US?
Can now. In Ohio at least.
You can now. In the last year or so. March 2007, courtesy of Wikipedia.
Is it real abisinthe or a substitute?
Real. It tastes just like all the ‘fake’ absinthe anise liquors, like Pernod and Pastis. Except worse.
Aren’t you supposed to add sugar to it to make it palatable?
Kind of like adding sugar to dog shit. Technically, I guess, it is making it more palatable.
I gather it tastes horrible.