This ensures that the end product will be the best it could be. The distillers take great care in selecting the finest of these herbs from their natural habitat. While drinks like whiskey, vodka, and gin are usually made from grain or vegetable mash, the foundation of Absinthe is usually a combination of green anise, fennel, wormwood, and hyssop. Unlike other distilled drinks, Absinthe is made from herbs.
Absinthe with wormwood series#
It became known across the nation, as “The Green Fairy” because many creative artists discovered that drinking it would bring on a series of hallucinations that would inspire them to newer heights in their creativity. By the 1870s the French had embraced this liquor and it had become the favored drink of the French Aristocracy. It would not take long before the drink would begin to gain in popularity. So, we have the chronic suffering of those in the late 18th century to thank for this potent potable today.
Today it works well to relieve other mild physical problems like stomach pain, heartburn and indigestion among other ailments. While it didn’t cure the disease it did help to subdue it. Originally it was noted to help relieve the suffering a patient may experience from malarial parasites. Like most other distilled alcohols on the market today, Absinthe got its start in the medicine cabinets of some apothecary shops or a doctor’s office.Ĭreated in Switzerland by a French doctor from the extract of a wormwood plant in the late 1700s, Absinthe was thought to have powerful healing properties. One of those is the French concoction of Absinthe. It doesn’t matter if you are in a private home and tasting the delights of your friend’s wet bar or you’re in a public restaurant and imbibing some of its most popular wares, you will find the likes of Brandy, Gin, Rum, Whiskey, Tequila, and Vodka on every shelf.īut there are other liquors that may not be as well known but will likely delight your tongue just as much if not moreso. When it comes to the long line of distilled beverages most people will think of the traditional staples, the ones in nearly every home across the globe.
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