Post #532417 by Trader Rick on Wed, May 26, 2010 3:28 PM

Long ago, a little before I got hot and heavy with Tiki, I went on a two year quest for the real deal absinthe. The motivation was a chance encounter with Barnaby Conrad III's book 'Absinthe, History in a Bottle.' Not unlike Beachbum Berry's quest for the Zombie, I shoveled through a ton of research to find that diamond of a drink. The kit absinthe they were selling on the internet in the 90's was pure crap. Meant to be drunk as a shot and test of manhood, I guess. The stuff from the Czech Republic was (and is) liquid punishment in every sense of the word. The only options I had were to buy a $250 bottle of bootleg Absinthe or make it myself. After trial, error and one fire I suceeded in creating an authentic 19th century French Absinthe. It was made exactly as made in the 19th century except the scale. It takes me 5 days to make 750ml from start to finish including a double distilation from Absinthe Blue (clear) to a normal Absinthe that is green. I would proudly stand my bottle of absinthe in competition next to any modern concoction now on the market. I've tried it in Zombies and it grants the Zombie a very complex series of notes in the drink that you don't get from Patis.