What alcohol is use in Absinthe?
Henri-Louis Pernod, who first distilled commercial Absinthe in the early nineteenth century in Pontarlier, France, used a wine alcohol base. He distilled the alcohol with herbs like wormwood, fennel, aniseed, hyssop, angelica, lemon balm, star anise, juniper, veronica, dittany as well as nutmeg. Wine is the traditional base for Absinthe but a majority of distillers use other sorts of alcohol.
If you search for Absinthe recipes online, you will see that many of them involve steeping blends of herbs in liquor like Everclear, white rum or vodka.
How can you Create Absinthe in your own home?
Even though some recipes online are for distilling Absinthe, distillation of liquor without a license is illegal in many countries and you simply have to have the right equipment and also you need to find out what you are doing. So, are there any other methods for making Absinthe?
– Steeping and Filtering – This generally involves steeping herbs such as wormwood, fennel, aniseed, calamus root, star anise, mint, coriander seeds, cloves etc. for a few days or possibly a few weeks in the neutral alcohol base and then filtering. Just distillation will give you a genuine Absinthe, this will just present you with an Absinthe flavored vodka.
– Using an Absinthe Kit – Many of the kits available online, just like the ones from Green Devil, are just steeping kits. They are easier than discovering and preparing your personal herbs but you are merely steeping the herbs in vodka again and making a flavored vodka.
– Using an Absinthe kit form AbsintheKit.com is a much simpler and better method to make Absinthe in your own home. AbsintheKit.com create essences for the Absinthe industry and also the essences are made by distilling conventional Absinthe herbs in alcohol. The distillation is done for you and all you have to do is mix the essence with vodka or Everclear and you’ve got a genuine Absinthe drink.
The essences come in four various kinds:-
– Classic Green Essence to produce a classic “verte” Absinthe with a thujone content of 35mg per bottle.
– Clear Absinthe Essence to make a clandestine La Bleue style Absinthe. This also carries a thujone content of 35mg.
– Orange Essence to produce Absinthe which has a twist. This essence is likely to make a yellow-orange colored Absinthe which has a natural orange flavor and a thujone content of 35mg.
– Strong 55 Essence is likely to make an Absinthe having a higher thujone content (55mg) and also a more bitter wormwood flavor.
You can obtain a 20ml bottle of essence for $3.95 to create one 750ml bottle of Absinthe or buy a kit for $29 to create 14 bottles of Absinthe. A kit comes with a handy plastic measure and 14 artistic bottle labels. All you need to supply is the neutral alcohol base. Keep in mind that the alcohol content of your Absinthe depends on your alcohol base. Be careful, drink Absinthe moderately because it is a substantially stronger beverage than other spirits as well as fermented drinks.
What alcohol is use in Absinthe? A wine alcohol base or maybe a neutral alcohol which does not have a substantial taste of its own – Everclear, vodka or 151 rum.
