Saturday, February 20, 2010

Tips for brewing Absinthe

If you live in a country where it is difficult to find real wormwood Absinthe, or you just want to have a go at making your very own Absinthe, you will want to know how to brew Absinthe home. 

Henri-Louis Pernod used a wine base and herbs, including anise, hyssop, fennel, lemon balm, star anise, Angelica, Veronica, juniper, nutmeg and dittany his Absinthe production. A blend of 13 herbs that out with chamomile and mint besides wormwood and a 100 year old recipe used by the Czech company in the preparation of Sebor Absinthe. 

There are 3 ways to make your own Absinthe drink: -- 

1. A person will require a recipe to distil his own Absinthe drink. 
2.Use an Absinthe Kit with a mixture of herbs and instructions. 
3.Use an Absinthe essence 

How to Brew Absinthe Use a recipe

Distilling alcohol at home is illegal in most countries unless you have a license and is quite complicated. Typical home-brew recipes include: -- 

- Wormwood (Grande Wormwood, Artemisia absinthium) 
- Importance of anise 
- Fennel 
- Alcohol 

The ingredients are first soaked for several hours, heated and then slowly distilled and then stained with additional herbs such as lemon balm, hyssop and petite wormwood. After the mixture is heated again, then filtered and diluted. 

A mixture of herbs with alcohol is needed for other recipes. This is an example: --


- 30g / 1 ounce dried wormwood 
- 1 tsp hyssop is required 
- 1 tbsp Angelica is required 
- You can also use anise seed instead of fennel seed 
- You need a teaspoon of Lemon balm 
- ¼ teaspoon each of caraway seeds and coriander seeds 
- 1 liter of Everclear or vodka 

In a bottle of chopped mixed dried wormwood with alcohol and leave for 1-2 weeks in a cool dark place. One will have to filter the wormwood and mix in the other plants. Refilter after 3 or 4 days. Absinthe is now ready. 

Absinthe Brewing at home in these ways is not recommended. Real Absinthe is not produced without distillation. 

How to Brew Absinthe with Herbal Blend Kit

There are many different herbal kits for sale online, for example kits from Green Devil. Things that are in their kits: --


- Their micron filtration system is unique.


- An Absinthe mixture containing grande wormwood, hyssop, Calamus, melissa, anise seed, fennel seed, star anise and coriander see.


- There are more herbal ingredients in Absinthe flavoring and finishing mixture. 

Your deluxe kit also contains two Absinthe spoons, two glass of Absinthe, a 1000ml bottle, two bottles labels, two muslin bags to infuse the herbs, a poster and a leaflet with information and instructions. 

The Thujone content in their finished Absinthe can contain around 70-90mg of Thujone per liter, which was once considered to be responsible for the psychedelic effects. A real Absinthe is not produced without distillation. 

How to Brew Absinthe With an Essence

Absinthe essences are available to buy from AbsintheKit.A real Absinthe can be prepared at home by visiting AbsintheKit.com. You can get essences, distilled and made from traditional Absinthe herbs. A person can easily make his own bottle of the Green Fairy by simply mixing the essence with Everclear or vodka. 

4 types of essences are available to make four different kinds of Absinthe. Real wormwood is the essence of all essences and are used by Absinthe industry. 

AbsintheKit.One can get an Absinthe kit from AbsintheKit.com have enough detail to make 14 bottles of Absinthe, bottle labels and a plastic measure. See their website for more information on how to brew Absinthe with their essences.

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