Discovering What to Mix Absinthe With
The conventional method of serving Absinthe is by using a method
known as the Ritual and also to dilute it with water. Some people are bored of drinking Absinthe in this manner and want to realize what to mix Absinthe with. I hope that this article allow you to enjoy Absinthe even more.
Absinthe is a strong liquor that is flavored with natural herbs which includes grande wormwood (artemisia absinthium), aniseed and fennel. Additionally, it sometimes features petite wormwood (artemisia pontica). The aniseed gives the drink its fantastic anise taste and the wormwood provides the Absinthe its characteristic bitter or slightly sour flavour.
Grande wormwood consists of thujone, named 3 thujamone or 3 sabinone by the book The IUPAC Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry. Thujone is a ketone and also a monoterpene much like the other terpenes, menthol and camphor. Other names that thujone extracted from wormwood has been referred to as are Absinthol, salvinol and tanacetone.
Thujone is the reason that Absinthe was banned in several countries during the early 1900s. It was the thujone which was held accountable for the madness and suicide of Van Gogh and several artists and writers reported that drinking Absinthe afforded them their genius and inspiration by means of dreams and hallucinations. The renowned Absinthe drinker Oscar Wilde stated of Absinthe:
“After the first glass of Absinthe you see things as you wish they were. After the second you see them as they are not. Finally you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.” Who knows what could happen after a whole bottle?!
We now know that Absinthe isn’t any more hazardous than almost every other strong spirit such as vodka and whisky, although it is two times the strength. Research has shown that Absinthe only consists of traces of thujone and that it is not likely to ingest enough Absinthe for thujone to have any negative or side effects. It won’t make you hallucinate or go insane and is now legal in the majority of countries. It is still illegal in Ireland however the Irish can order it from offshore and have it shipped for private consumption.
You can make your personal bottled Absinthe by making use of Absinthe essences from AbsintheKit.com. These essences are manufactured by distilling classic Absinthe herbs and all you have to do should be to mix them with vodka or Everclear – a simple and cost-effective approach to make Absinthe.
What to Mix Absinthe With
Now that Absinthe is legal in most countries, we could test out making use of it in cocktails or make classic Absinthe cocktails just like the New Orleans Sazerac or Death in the Afternoon.
Sazerac Menu
1 teaspoon of a good quality Absinthe
Ice cubes
A sugar cube or maybe 1 teaspoon of sugar.
1 ½ ounces of Rye whisky (not bourbon)
3 dashes of angostura bitters
1 Lemon peel twist
Freeze a glass within your freezer.
Swirl the Absinthe around the glass to coat the sides as well as bottom part of the glass. Throw away (or drink!) the excess.
Position the additional ingredients within a cocktail shaker or mixer and shake for about ½ a minute.
Pour in the glass, incorporating the lemon peel.
Death in the Afternoon
5 ounces of refrigerated champagne blended with 1 ounce of Absinthe – delightful!
A lot of people prefer to use mixers such as lemonade, 7UP and cherryade with their Absinthe and I have even got word of Red Bull being mixed with Absinthe! Be inventive when deciding what you should mix Absinthe with, use recipes off the Internet but provide them with your own twist or make-up your own. Have a good time.