Moonbeam Absinthe



Moonbeam Absinthe is one of the many types of alcohol found in the game. Drinking alcohol restores health, but lowers EVE. Moonbeam Absinthe appears to be the favored drink of the artist Sander Cohen, and can be found in his office in Fort Frolic and his apartment in Olympus Heights, with numerous bottles scattered around his bathroom and bedroom. If you consume multiple units back to back, you get a short duration of blurry/double vision, making a nice illusion of being intoxicated. This drink also has a faint green glow when in dark areas, showing that it may have had some kind of ingredient change to cause it.

In the level Fort Frolic, an optional inventable physical tonic called Booze Hound will change this by making drinkable alcohol restore EVE rather then draining it, but will still bring about intoxication.

The drink absinthe derives from a period of popularity in the mid 19th century, with the aesthetic and romantic movement of artists such as Tolouse Lautrec, in cities such as Paris. The popularity of the drink amongst the artists is thought to have been in the preparation, similar to that of a solution of cocaine, etc. However, the most dangerous substance in the drink is alcohol. The developers of BioShock no doubt used moonbeam absinthe as a character development device for Sander Cohen. Cohen is portrayed as an artist, with numerous works of art scattered around his private apartment. Therefore, it is applicable that Sander Cohen drinks absinthe, if this was the image with which they wished to portray him.