A person should know to brew Absinthe at home if it is hard to find real wormwood Absinthe in his country.
Henri-Louis Pernod prepared his Absinthe by using a wine base and herbs including aniseed, hyssop, fennel, lemon balm, star anise, angelica, veronica, juniper, dittany and nutmeg. Czech company Sebor use a blend of 13 herbs, including chamomile and mint in addition to wormwood, and a 100 year old recipe to make their Absinthe.
There are 3 main ways to make your own Absinthe drink:-
1.Absinthe liquor can be distilled by a recipe.
2.Use an Absinthe Kit with a blend of herbs and instructions.
3.Use an Absinthe essence
How to Brew Absinthe Using a Recipe
Distilling liquor at home is illegal in most countries unless you have a license and is quite complicated. Typical home-brew recipes include:-
- Wormwood (Grande Wormwood, Artemisia Absinthium)
- Uses of Green Anise
- Fennel
- Alcohol
The ingredients are first macerated for several hours, heated and then slowly distilled and then colored with extra herbs such as lemon balm, hyssop and petite wormwood. One has to heat the mixture again, then filter and dilute it.
Other recipes only require a blend of herbs with alcohol. Take an example:-
- It is necessary to have 30g/ 1 ounce dried Wormwood
- 1 teaspoon hyssop is required
- There is necessity of 1 tablespoon angelica
- 1 pinch of fennel seeds (could use anise instead)
- Take 1 teaspoon of lemon balm
- Take ¼ teaspoon each of caraway seeds and coriander seeds
- 1 liter of Everclear or vodka
In a bottle mix chopped dried wormwood with the alcohol and leave for 1-2 weeks in a cool dark place. Filter or sieve out the wormwood and mix in the other herbs. The filtration will be done after 3 or 4 days. One can have the Absinthe now.
Brewing Absinthe at home in these ways is not recommended. Real Absinthe is not produced without distillation.
How To Brew Absinthe with a Herbal Blend Kit
There are many different herbal kits on sale online, for example the kits from Green Devil. Things that are in their kits:-
- Knowledge of their unique micron filtration system.
- Grande wormwood, hyssop, calamus, melissa, anise seed, fennel seed, star anise and coriander seed is available in an Absinthe blend.
- Absinthe flavoring and finishing blend which contains more herbal ingredients.
Their Deluxe kit also contains two Absinthe spoons, two Absinthe glasses, a 1000ml bottle, two bottle labels, two muslin bags for infusing the herbs, a poster and a pamphlet containing information and instructions.
Aa per their claim their finished Absinthe may contain as much as 70-90mg of thujone per liter. A real Absinthe is produced after distillation.
How To Brew Absinthe With an Essence
Absinthe essences are available to buy from AbsintheKit.A person can make real Absinthe at home by going through the site AbsintheKit.com. The essences are distilled and made from traditional Absinthe herbs. A person can easily prepare his own bottle of the Green Fairy by simply mixing the essence with Everclear or vodka.
One can use 4 types of essence to produce varieties of Absinthe. Real wormwood is the main content of all and essences are utilized by the Absinthe industry.
AbsintheKit.com also sell their essences in kits containing enough essence to make 14 bottles of Absinthe, bottle labels and a plastic measure. A person can go through their website to get more information on how to brew Absinthe with their essences.