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Where Is Absinthe Available ?

Sunday, December 27th, 2009

Though a person is desperate for first taste of the mythical Green Fairy but he don't know about the sources to get it?”.

A number of websites are there! The Internet is a great resource for finding quality Absinthe but it can confuse rather than help. Here are some buying tips for finding a genuine vintage tasting Absinthe:-

- An economic way of getting the original vintage taste is to make your own Absinthe from top-quality Absinthe essences. The Absinthe Classics Essence kitfrom AbsintheKit.com only cost and allows you to make 14 bottles of Absinthe (750ml each). One can get a handy measure and 14 bottle labels in this kit. Traditional Absinthe herbs are used for the distillation of the essence and it makes an Absinthe with a thujone content of 35mg per bottle. One can buy 3 other Absinthe kits and replicas of antique Absinthe glasses and spoons from AbsintheKit.com.

- Learn about Absintheas much as you can so you know what to look for. lafeeverte website can be visited.Visit realabsintheonline.com and absinthebuyersguide.One can visit com to get information about Absinthe and also about product reviews.

- An Absinthe which has both wormwood and anise should be bought. As some Czech Absinth is anise free so they lack the distinctive anise flavor. There are also lots of fake or substitute Absinthes on sale which do not contain wormwood and you want to avoid those if you want to try real Absinthe.

- Visit to different shops for comparing the costs of Absinthe. Suppliers who stock a variety of Absinthesinclude the UK company Thedrinkshop.Visit com, absintheclassics.com and absinth24.net.

- Buy known brands from reputable distillers who have won awards for their Absinthes and then compare prices between suppliers. See below to get the knowledge of well known brands.

I don't know from where to purchase Absinthe Classics?

Brands that you may want to consider are:-

- Sebor – Sebor Absinth is a Czech Absinth. One can get real Sebor Absinth with 55% worwmood content only at seborabsinth.com. One can try it as it is popular and reputed Czech brand.

- Purchase Jade Collection by Ted breaux. Numerous awards has been given to these Absinthes and were created by Ted Breaux who manufactured his own vintage style Absinthe. One can buy Swiss style Absinthes and French Pernod style Absinthes from the Jade Collection. It has a wonderful collection. These Absinthes are available from websites like absintheonline.com.

- Another Czech Absinthe is La Boheme Absinthe Original. This Absinthe is produced from a 200 year old Swiss recipe and is explained as the finest Absinthe. It is available to order from originalabsinthe.com.

- One can get La Ptite Absinthe du Val de Travers – A Swiss Absinthe distilled in Couvet from an 1898 recipe. A person can hardly be get hold of this handmade La Bleue style Absinthe. Sometimes stock can be available on absintheclassics.com.

- Absinthe Clandestine is one of the Swiss La Bleue style Absinthe. A former bootleg distiller,Claude-Alain Bugnon is used to distill this Absinthe. It is based on traditional La Bleue recipes and uses traditional Absinthe herbs with alpine plants. A person needs to visit absintheclassics for this.com.

Absinthe Roquette 1797 is manufactured from an 18th century recipe. In Pontarlier, France it is distilled according to 19th century alambics. A lot of websites sell this along with absintheclassics.com.

Doubs Mystique Carte d'Or, Absinthe Duplais, Lucid (created for the USA) and the Spanish Absenta Mari Mayans 70 are other famous Absinthes.

One should try to serve his Absinthe in the traditional manner. To do this you need to:-

- Pour a shot of Absinthe into an Absinthe glass.
- Drip iced water over sugar cube placed on a slotted Absinthe spoon to make a solution with the alcohol. A louche is visible when pouring is done slowly.
- A person can stir and serve – delicious.

One can have fun while trying different brands or by making his own. This information is enough to get the answer of the question “Where can I buy Absinthe ?".

 

 

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Knowledge About Absinthe

Monday, December 21st, 2009

Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Oscar Wilde, Ernest Hemingway, Gauguin, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Degas are among the famous artists and writers who enjoyed drinking Absinthe.

Absinthe is a strong alcoholic beveragedistilled at high proof but generally served diluted with iced water or in cocktails. Absinthe is flavored with herbs and essential oils along with wormwood (Artemisia Absinthium), aniseed and fennel and made from a wine alcohol base. Other herbal ingredients used in the manufacture may include hyssop, lemon balm, star anise, angelica, juniper, nutmeg, dittany, calamus root and mint.

Information about Absinthe History

Absinthe has a very long and interesting history. There had been medicinal use of wormwood since ancient times. In the Swiss town of Couvet in the Val-de-Travers a French doctor, Dr Pierre Ordinaire made Absinthe. Ordinaire used it on his patients as a medicine which gave amazing results.

In Couvet Henri-Louis Pernod was using the Absinthe recipe to distill Absinthe and under the name of Pernod Fils in the French town of Pontarlier. By the middle of the 19th century, Absinthe was produced upto 30,000 liters per day by the Pernod company!

Absinthe was a popular drink in most of the countries. In France Absinthe overtook wine as the favorite drink. Contemporary there were concerns about health and the effects of Absinthe. The liquor was linked to the Bohemian culture of Montmartre with its loose morals and artists and writers. The psychedelic effects, convulsions, insanity, brain damage and death was believed to be the causes from thujone.

Absinthe was thought to be the cause for Van Gogh's insanity and his suicide, for the murder of a family and for the rising rate of alcohol abuse in France. The USA and France restricted Absinthe in the year 1912 and 1915 respectively. Absinthe was unauthorized in other countries also.

Absinthe Revival

During the ban, people either drank Absinthe substitutes, such as Pernod Pastis, or bought bootleg Absinthe. Studies and research showed that the claims made about Absinthe were untrue.

Studies showed that the thujone content in Absinthe was so small that it cannot cause harmful side effects and drinking Absinthe was no more dangerous than other strong alcoholic beverages.

The EU legalized Absinthe with up to 10mg/kg of thujone in the late 20th century and in 2007 the USA legalized certain brands of Absinthe which contained up to 10 ppm of thujone .

France, home of Pernod's original Absinthestill has a ban on products labeled “Absinthe” and France also strictly regulates drinks containing fenchone, a chemical in fennel which is a key ingredient in Absinthe. In France, Absinthes are famous as “spirit a base de plantes d'absinthe” and should contain up to 5mg per liter of fenchone.

In these times of revival, it is possible to order Absinthe online, buy it in a liquor shop or buy real wormwood Absinthe essences to make your very own Green Fairy – see AbsintheKit.Visit AbsintheKit.com for more information about Absinthe essences. They also sell replica Absinthe glasses and spoonslike a Pontarlier glass and Eiffel Tower spoon.

 

 

 

 

 

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Process To Brew Absinthe

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

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.

 

 

 

 

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How To Use Absinthe Liquor ?

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

There has been a renewed interest in Absinthe liquor about the world in the last decade since Absinthe's legalization in many countries. A few brands of Absinthe has been legalized in the United States since 2007 so there is much interest in the liquor in the US.

Tips about Absinthe Liquor About? 

Absinthe is a distilled anise flavored spirit which was created for medicinal purposes as an elixir or tonic by the legendary Dr Pierre Ordinaire in Couvet, Switzerland. In between the 19th and 20th century it started becoming popular in Switzerland and France and left behind the popularity of wine in France.

Absinthe is flavored with herbs and prepared with a wine base. Besides common wormwood (Artemisia Absinthium), which gives Absinthe it's name and it's bitter taste aniseed and fennel are also basic herbal ingredients of Absinthe. Absinthe is also prepared with the herbs such as hyssop, lemon balm, star anise, dittany, juniper, nutmeg and licorice.

There are many different types of Absinthe liquor:-

- Verte – This is the classic green Absinthe of the French La Belle Epoque and the Absinthe favored by the Bohemian culture of Montmartre and consumed by artists and writers such as Pablo Picasso, Van Gogh, Oscar Wilde, Ernest Hemingway, Gauguin, Degas, Baudelaire and Verlaine.

- Everyone knows La Blueu as La Blanche also. This is a clear Absinthe. Bootleg Swiss Absinthe was kept away from the ban.

Some Czech Style Absinth are normal Absinthes but this term refers to “Absinths” which are actually wormwood bitters without having an anise flavor.

- To give Absenta, Spanish Absinthe a sweeter taste Alicante Anise is used.

- Rouge or Rose Absinthe is a red color Absinthe.

You can buy many different types and styles of Absinthe online– traditional styles and modern classics which are based on vintage Absinthes but have a modern twist.

As well as buying these different types of Absinthe beverages, you can also make your own Absinthe from Absinthe essences. AbsintheKit.One can visit AbsintheKit.com to get essences. They make 4 varieties of essences that give a stronger bitter wormwood flavor and a lovely orange-yellow color to Absinthe. A person can prepare wormwood Absinthe from the essences available on the websites.

AbsintheKit.com also sell Absinthiana such as replicas of famous Absinthe glasses and spoons such as the Eiffel Tower spoon.

The alcohol is 75% by volume in Absinthe and it is more stronger than whisky or vodka. It is very easy to get drunk on Absinthe so care should be taken when drinking such a strong spirit!

Besides going through the colorful and interesting history of Absinthe an individual can enjoy this lovely beverage.

 

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Benefits Of Absinthe Info

Saturday, September 12th, 2009

Since there has been an Absinthe revival in many countries over the past few years, many people are seeking Absinthe info.

“La Fee Verte” or “The Green Fairy” is the nickname of Absinthe. It is distilled usually with a wine base and a variety of herbail ingredients, unlike the alcoholic beverages beer and cider which are fermented.

The name of Absinthe and it's distinctive bitter taste both came from the common wormwood, artemisia absinthium. As thujone was restricted in the countries like the USA so they prepared Absinthe without wormwood.

Other types of herbs and essential oils used in Absinthe production include Fennel, green aniseed, star anise, hyssop, lemon balm, juniper, angelica, licorice, dittany, coriander, nutmeg and sweet flag. One can see a louche when Absinthe is mixed with water. The oils dissolve in alcohol but not in water which causes the drink to go cloudy.

Absinthe Info about the Ban

The prohibition movement claimed that Absinthe was harmful and that drinking Absinthe led to “Absinthism” which was characterized by convulsions, fits, madness, brain damage and ultimately death. Thujone is the chemical found in wormwood which was believed to be dangerous. It was assumed that Absinthe was very toxic and harmful due to a high quantity of thujone in it. In the beginning of 1900s lots of nations banned Absinthe.

Everyone is familiar that these statements and claims are far from the truths related to Absinthe. Thujone can be harmful when taken in large quantities. Recent studies have shown that Absinthe contain a maximum of 6mg per kg of thujone. Thujone can be dangerous only if excess amount of Absinthe is taken by a person!

Absinthe has now been legalized in most countries and there are many types and styles available:-

- Clear Absinthe – This is known as La Bleue or Blanche Absinthe and is commonly distilled in Switzerland.

- La Verte – This is traditional green Absinthe, the Green Fairy.

The normal French or Swiss Absinthe is less sweeter than the Spanish Absinthe.

- Bohemian or Czech style Absinthe is a wormwood bitter than an Absinthe which lacks other herbs such as aniseed or fennel.

Thujone or wormwood is the important content of real Absinthe.

You can also make your own Absintheby using Absinthe essences from AbsintheKit.com. Modern carbon dioxide distillation is used to distill these essences. The Absinthe can be made by dissolving it with a neutral alcohol.

One can visit AbsintheKit.com to get more Absinthe info and info about Absinthe kit.

 

 

 

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