Unique Absinthe Recipes
Pernod’s Absinthe, Original Pernod Fils, was distilled from wine and included many
natural herbs and essential oils from plants which includes grande wormwood, aniseed, melissa, fennel, lemon balm, dittany, angelica root, hyssop, star anise, nutmeg and juniper.
Various manufacturers of the Green Fairy (Absinthe’s nickname) made use of distinct recipes and ingredients. Other herbs employed in Absinthe production included calamus root, mint, cloves, nutmeg, roman wormwood, anise seed, coriander, sweet flag and licorice. The herb wormwood, Artimesia Absinthium, was always utilised in the making of pre-ban Absinthe because it was the ingredient that gave Absinthe its typical bitter taste, as well as its name.
Wormwood has got the chemical thujone which was believed to be similar to THC in the drug cannabis. Thujone is psychoactive and can cause psychedelic effects when used in big amounts. Anise seed and fennel seed both contain anethole which is reported to be psychoactive and Angelica root is grown as a drug in Lapland. Absinthe is a mystical mixture of sedatives and stimulants, obvious why artists and writers just like Van Gogh and Oscar Wilde professed that it presented them their genius and inspiration! “A clear headed drunkenness” is how being drunk on Absinthe has long been described.
Absinthe was famously banned in France in 1915 when Prohibitionists claimed that it was going to ruin the land and send everyone insane. However, research has shown that drinking Absinthe is just as safe as drinking many of the other strong alcoholic drinks just like whisky and vodka. Absinthe is mainly alcohol and just contains tiny volumes of wormwood and the other herbs so, if consumed in moderation, is no real health risk.
Self-made Absinthe Recipes
There are many Absinthe recipes on the internet using different herbs as well as other methods – steeping, filtering etc. but making Absinthe in your own home from plants, dried herbs or essential oils just isn’t to be recommended. Why?
– Absinthe has to be distilled.
– You don’t have any means of understanding the thujone content of your completed Absinthe – somewhat risky.
It is far better to buy either a quality Absinthe, making sure that it’s got the vital ingredient wormwood, or to buy an Absinthe kit which comprises of Absinthe essences which have already been distilled.
It’s also possible to buy Absinthe in America now – Breaux’s label “Lucid” is legal in the USA.
AbsintheKit.com does fantastic Absinthe kits which consist of:-
– Absinthe essence – select from classic, white (that makes clear Swiss style Absinthe, Strong 55 (with a 55mg thujone content) and Orange (flavoured with orange oil).
– A measure.
– Artistic Labels to decorate your Absinthe bottles.
One bottle of essence is likely to make 14 bottles of Absinthe!
To create Absinthe making use of these kits you just mix 20ml of the Absinthe essence with a neutral alcohol such as Everclear or vodka and that’s it – finished, your won bottle of Green Fairy.
Simple and easy to make use of and, since these essences are the exact same as the ones sold to distilleries, you know that you’re getting a good, top-quality product.
In the event you search on the internet there are lots of cocktail Absinthe recipes like Ernest Hemingway’s famous “Death in the Afternoon” – Absinthe and champagne. Enjoy