I've got the wormwood and I've got the recipes for absynth but I haven't got the guts to try and make it - - heard too many stories about it being halucinagenic, narcotic etc etc and it stunts your growth - just look at Toulouse Lautrec :-)

But, since you ask, and seem prepared to play with fire, check out these sites. You might have a useful brain now, but not after you've used it! Plenty of madhouses used to be filled with users of it.

jamus_s - stills to make alcohol are illegal, but up here in queensland we can legally buy a still "to purify water etc" - that's the line that the home brew shops use to sell the stills

here's acouple of links for steeped absynthe:

http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/absinthe/absinthe_recipe1.shtml

http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/absinthe/absinthe_recipe2.shtml

http://bob.bob.bofh.org/absinthe/recipes/steeped.html

As for playing with fire - that's why I've asked here first - to see if anyone has made their own using wormwood.

Cheers Bella