How To Distill Absinthe Effectively
There are several websites giving Absinthe recipes as well as
tutorials and help on how to distill Absinthe, the Green Fairy, or La Fee Verte, the strong alcoholic beverage enjoyed by the likes of Van Gogh, Oscar Wilde, Pablo Picasso and Ernest Hemingway.
In case you are in the United States and you just wish to distill your individual Absinthe, or any other alcohol, officially you need a license from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms because it is illegal to distill alcohol without a proper license.
How to Distill Absinthe from home
Recipes and guides on the Internet include the subsequent recipes:-
A recipe much like an 1855 Pontarlier Recipe
– Macerate 25g wormwood (organic name Artemesia Absinthium), 50g fennel and 50g anise in 950ml 85% abv inside a 2 liter flask.
– Add 450ml mineral water.
– Perform a pot still distillation, collect 950ml of distillate.
– Separate 400ml of the distillate and mix in 10g of Roman Wormwood (Artemisia Pontica), 5g lemon balm, 10g hyssop and macerate at 60C.
– Filter and mix with the remaining 550ml distillate and dilute to 74% abv to make 1 liter of Absinthe.
(Recipe from www.homedistiller.org and initially from “Scientific American”, June 1989)
Various other recipes on the web include additional herbs just like sage, mint, galangal, ginger, sweet flag, licorice, aniseed, cinnamon, nutmeg and also cardamon.
Distillation isn’t just illegal in certain countries but it is also difficult. Thankfully, there are kits available on the internet from different suppliers for you to make Absinthe in your own home simply and easily without making use of distillation.
Absinthe Essence Kits
AbsintheKit.com develop Absinthe essences for both the Absinthe industry as well as for consumers. The essences are made with top-quality essential oils and herbs and by hi-tech carbon dioxide distillation. Every essence has already been distilled, all you need to do is mix with a neutral alcohol base just like Everclear or vodka and you can also enjoy your very own Absinthe in your own home.
The Absinthe essences can either be obtained in 20ml bottles at $3.95 ($4.95 for Strong 55) which is enough to make one 750ml bottle of Absinthe, or perhaps in a 280ml bottle (to make 14 bottles of Absinthe) within a kit with artistic bottle labels and a helpful plastic measure. The kits are $29 or $39 for the Strong 55 kit.
Four varieties of essence can be found – one to make a classic green Absinthe, an orange oil flavoured essence, an essence to create clear Swiss style Absinthe and a stronger essence to create an Absinthe having a more bitter wormwood flavor. All essences contain real wormwood and other traditional herbs just like aniseed and fennel. The Strong 55 offers a thujone content of 55mg per 750ml bottle of Absinthe and also the other essences offer a content of 35mg.
There exists a guide concerning how to utilize the essences on the AbsintheKit.com website.
AbsintheKit.com also sell replicas of antique 19th century Absinthe glasses, such as the Pontarlier glass, and Absinthe spoons, including the famous Eiffel Tower spoon designed to commemorate the opening of the Eiffel Tower in 1889. Using the proper Absinthiana (Absinthe equipment) will definitely place you in the correct mood to get ready and drink your excellent Absinthe drink.