There are several websites giving Absinthe recipes and even 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 just want to distill your own personal Absinthe, as well as other alcohol, officially you’ll need a license from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms because it’s illegal to distill alcohol without having a proper license.
How to Distill Absinthe in your own home
Recipes and guides on the net include the subsequent recipes:-
A recipe just like an 1855 Pontarlier Recipe
– Macerate 25g wormwood (botanical name Artemesia Absinthium), 50g fennel and 50g anise in 950ml 85% abv within a 2 liter flask.
– Put 450ml mineral water.
– Perform a pot still distillation, gather 950ml of distillate.
– Split 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 remaining 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)
Additional recipes on the web include additional herbs such as sage, mint, galangal, ginger, sweet flag, licorice, aniseed, cinnamon, nutmeg and cardamon.
Distillation is not only illegal in certain countries but it’s also complex absintheflavoring. Thankfully, you will find kits available on the internet from different suppliers to enable you to make Absinthe from home simply and easily without making use of distillation.
Absinthe Essence Packages
AbsintheKit.com create Absinthe essences for the Absinthe industry and for consumers. The essences are made with top-quality essential oils and herbs and through hi-tech carbon dioxide distillation. Each and every essence is distilled, all you need to do is mix by using a neutral alcohol base like Everclear or vodka and you can also enjoy your own personal Absinthe in your own home.
The Absinthe essences can either be obtained in 20ml bottles at $3.95 ($4.95 for Strong 55) that is enough to make one 750ml bottle of Absinthe, or even 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 varieties of essence can be found – one to make a classic green Absinthe, an orange oil distinctive flavored essence, an essence to create clear Swiss style Absinthe and a stronger essence to produce an Absinthe which has a more bitter wormwood flavor useful reference. All essences comprise real wormwood and 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 provide a content of 35mg.
There’s a guide on how to use the essences within the AbsintheKit.com website.
AbsintheKit.com additionally 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 truly place you in the correct mood to prepare and drink your excellent Absinthe drink.