Understanding How To Brew Absinthe
If you reside in a country where
absinthe flavoring
it’s difficult to find real wormwood Absinthe, otherwise you just fancy having a go at doing your own Absinthe, you should understand how to brew Absinthe from home.
Henri-Louis Pernod produced his Absinthe with a wine base and herbs such as aniseed, hyssop, fennel, lemon balm, star anise, angelica, veronica, juniper, dittany and also nutmeg. Czech company Sebor use a mixture of 13 herbs, such as chamomile and mint together with wormwood, and a 100 year old recipe to make their Absinthe.
You can find 3 main ways to make your own Absinthe drink:-
1.Use a recipe to distill your own personal Absinthe liquor.
2.Work with an Absinthe Kit with a combination of herbs and instructions.
3.Use an Absinthe essence
How to Brew Absinthe Utilizing a Recipe
Distilling liquor at home is against the law in many countries unless you have a license and is quite challenging. Standard home-brew recipes include:-
– Wormwood (Grande Wormwood, Artemisia Absinthium)
– Green Anise
– Fennel
– Alcohol
The components are first macerated for many hours, heated and then slowly distilled then colored with extra herbs like lemon balm, hyssop and petite wormwood. The mixture will then be heated once more, then filtered as well as diluted.
Other recipes do not require distillation, just a blend of herbs with alcohol. As an example:-
– 30g/ 1 ounce dried Wormwood
– 1 teaspoon hyssop
– 1 tablespoon angelica
– 1 pinch of fennel seeds (are able to use anise instead)
– 1 teaspoon of lemon balm
– ¼ teaspoon each of caraway seeds and coriander seeds
– 1 liter of Everclear or vodka
In a bottle combine chopped dried wormwood together with the alcohol and then leave for 1-2 weeks within a cool dark place. Filter or sieve out the wormwood and blend the additional herbs. Wait around for 3 to 4 days then filter or sieve again. The Absinthe is already ready.
Brewing Absinthe from home through these ways just isn’t advised. Distilling is tricky and often illegal and just mixing the herbs with alcohol does not give you a true Absinthe.
How To Brew Absinthe by using a Herbal Blend Kit
There are many different herbal kits available for sale online, as an example the kits from Green Devil. Their kits include:-
– Their unique micron filtering system.
– An Absinthe blend that contains grande wormwood, hyssop, calamus, melissa, anise seed, fennel seed, star anise and also coriander see.
– Absinthe flavoring and finishing blend made up of much more herbal ingredients.
Their Deluxe kit also contains two Absinthe spoons, two Absinthe glasses, a 1000ml bottle, two bottle labels, two muslin bags for infusing the herbs, a poster plus a pamphlet containing data and instructions.
They claim that their finished Absinthe will consist of approximately 70-90mg of thujone per liter – rather a great deal of thujone, the chemical seen in wormwood which was once claimed to cause psychedelic effects. There’s no distilling involved hence the Absinthe produced will not be a genuine Absinthe.
How To Brew Absinthe With an Essence
Absinthe essences are for sale to purchase from AbsintheKit.com are an easy way to produce real Absinthe from home. The essences are made from classic Absinthe herbs and are already distilled. Simply just mix the essence with Everclear or vodka and you will have your own bottle of the Green Fairy.
4 kinds of essence can be found – one to create a classic verte Absinthe, one to produce a clear La Bleue style Absinthe, one to create an orange flavored Absinthe and another to produce a stronger more bitter Absinthe. Each of them contain real wormwood and so are essences used by the Absinthe industry.
AbsintheKit.com furthermore sell their essences in kits made up of enough essence to create 14 bottles of Absinthe, bottle labels and a plastic measure. See their site to get more data on how to brew Absinthe using their essences.
