Pressed for Time: Make Your Own Absinthe

April 1, Madagascar Institute, 217 Butler St. (betw. Bond & Nevins Sts.), Brooklyn, [www.madagascarinstitute.com](http://www.madagascarinstitute.com/); 7, $55.

Are you as tired as I am of paying actual money for absinthe? Yes, you are. Luckily, absinthe is one of the few drinks you can make pretty easily at home as long as you know how. It’s the meth of spirits! Let the dirty steampunks at Madagascar Institute tell you how.The class takes place over both April 1 and April 8 and you’ll soon make your money back selling hooch to your neighbors.

Bottom Line: Give a man wormwood and he’ll be fucked up for a few hours.Teach a man to make absinthe, and he’ll become Oscar Wilde.