How To Distill Absinthe Appropriately
There are several websites giving Absinthe recipes as well as
tutorials and help regarding how to distill Absinthe, the Green Fairy, or La Fee Verte, the strong alcoholic drink enjoyed by the likes of Van Gogh, Oscar Wilde, Pablo Picasso and Ernest Hemingway.
If you are in the United States and you want to distill your individual Absinthe, or some other alcohol, officially you’ll need a license from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms because it is illegal to distill alcohol with no proper license.
How to Distill Absinthe from home
Recipes and guides on the web consist of 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 in a 2 liter flask.
– Put 450ml distilled water.
– Perform a pot still distillation, collect 950ml of distillate.
– Separate 400ml of the distillate and blend 10g of Roman Wormwood (Artemisia Pontica), 5g lemon balm, 10g hyssop and macerate at 60C.
– Filter and mix together with the leftover 550ml distillate and dilute to 74% abv to produce 1 liter of Absinthe.
(Recipe from www.homedistiller.org and formerly from “Scientific American”, June 1989)
Other recipes on the web consist of additional herbs like sage, mint, galangal, ginger, sweet flag, licorice, aniseed, cinnamon, nutmeg as well as cardamon.
Distillation isn’t just illegal in certain countries but it’s also complicated. Thankfully, you can find kits available on the web from different suppliers for you to make Absinthe at home simply and easily without making use of distillation.
Absinthe Essence Packages
AbsintheKit.com produce Absinthe essences for the Absinthe industry and then for consumers. The essences are made with top-quality essential oils and herbs and by hi-tech carbon dioxide distillation. Each and every essence is already distilled, all you have to do is mix with a neutral alcohol base like Everclear or vodka and you then can enjoy your own personal Absinthe in your own home.
The Absinthe essences can either be bought in 20ml bottles at $3.95 ($4.95 for Strong 55) that is enough to create one 750ml bottle of Absinthe, or perhaps in a 280ml bottle (to create 14 bottles of Absinthe) inside a kit with artistic bottle labels as well as a useful plastic measure. The kits are $29 or $39 for the Strong 55 kit.
Four types of essence are available – one to make a classic green Absinthe, an orange oil distinctive flavored essence, an essence to create clear Swiss style Absinthe plus a stronger essence to create an Absinthe with a more bitter wormwood flavor. All essences consist of real wormwood along with other traditional herbs like aniseed and fennel. The Strong 55 provides a thujone content of 55mg per 750ml bottle of Absinthe and the other essences give a content of 35mg.
There is a guide on how to use the essences within the AbsintheKit.com website.
AbsintheKit.com likewise sell replicas of antique nineteenth 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. Utilizing the proper Absinthiana (Absinthe equipment) will definitely place you in the right mood to prepare and drink your excellent Absinthe drink.