Absinthe

The absinthe is a high-alcohol distilled from anise all'aroma from herbs such as flowers and leaves of force majeure (Artemisia Absinthium), which takes its name. Is sometimes mistaken as a liqueur, but it's not like the absinthe, produced by a processing Destillierblase hot and bottled without the use of sugar, so it is as a distillate.

As a general rule, green (naturally or by the use of artificial coloring), absinthe, though, was also known as Fee Verte (Green Fee). It is usually drunk by adding water ice and / or sugar. This kind of preparation makes the turbid in distillate stocks and lighter in alcohol, which allows you to better enjoy the taste. For this reason, that was the most common way to enjoy nell'800, a century of the mass of diffusion.

The wormwood is indeed known, mainly because of the Parisian artists and writers of Romanticism, which took the popularity in France at the end of this century and the beginning of the next, until its ban in 1915. The brand of absinthe is best known in the world was Pernod Fils.

The absinthe is colorless or all the nuances of chlorophyll, the yellow light for emerald green, and has a complex flavor with a perfect balance of flavors of different herbs. In addition to the leaves of wormwood, it contains the seeds of anise (star anise, often hand in his surrogates, has been rarely used and only in small quantities), fennel seeds, hyssop, Melissa, Artemisia pontica and some other ingredients from distillery to be amended Distillery as angelica, mint, mugwort, chamomile, coriander.
It seems an argument without foundation, created with the intention of the nineteenth all'assenzio property of their drugs, that the wormwood, was sometimes moved with opium: There is no historical document, which confirms the historical and no recipe, talk .

The absinthe is by maceration and distillation of the ingredients. Later, when appropriate, it paints with a maceration of herbs such as artemisia pontica, hyssop, and Melissa.

Less valuable varieties of this drink is with the help of essences and oils blended into cold alcohol.

The alcohol content is extremely high, so the chlorophyll remain stable as long as possible (between 45% and 75%). Historically, there were 4 of absinthe varieties: regular, semi-excellent, excellent, superior or Swiss, the last one was an alcohol content higher than the others. The best wormwood contains from 65% to 75% alcohol. It is known that in the nineteenth century, wormwood, how many food and beverage, was occasionally spoofed by businessmen with copper, zinc, indigo, or other colors to give it the green, and that was obviously never done the best distilleries.

The rumor that had wormwood often drunk with drops Laudanum comes in addition to the media glorification of the rare cases historically documented. The Laudanum really was not widespread and only then, if people could really afford, and these were used to make them happen everywhere (most common in the wine): It is possible that they also nell'assenzio, as the absinthe was very drunk Almost all; This custom is therefore only a few rich oppiomani.

The remarkable popularity of wormwood, was during the nineteenth century (thanks to the relatively low prices and accessible to all classes) under the direction of the producers of wine, brandy and whiskey, a genuine war against the absinthe, war, was easily accepted by the governments To put an end to widespread alcoholism, scourge of the nineteenth century French.