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A person should know to brew Absinthe at home if it is hard to find real wormwood Absinthe in his country.
Henri-Louis Pernod made his Absinthe with a wine base and herbs including aniseed, hyssop, fennel, lemon balm, star anise, angelica, veronica, juniper, dittany and nutmeg. A blend of 13 herbs, in addition with chamomile and mint in addition to wormwood and a 100 year old recipe is used by Czech company Sebor to make their Absinthe.
There are 3 main ways to make your own Absinthe drink:-
1.For distillation of Absinthe liquor one will require a recipe.
2.Use an Absinthe Kit with a blend of herbs and instructions.
3.Use an Absinthe essence
How to Brew Absinthe Using a Recipe
Distilling liquor 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)
- Green Anise
- Fennel
- Alcohol
The ingredients are first macerated for several hours, heated and then slowly distilled and then colored with extra herbs such as lemon balm, hyssop and petite wormwood. The mixture is then heated again, then filtered and diluted.
Instead of distillation other recipes need only a blend of herbs with alcohol. For example:-
- Take 30g/ 1 ounce dried Wormwood
- Need of 1 teaspoon of hyssop
- 1 tablespoon angelica
- 1 pinch of fennel seeds is required
- Take 1 teaspoon of lemon balm
- ¼ teaspoon each of caraway seeds and coriander seeds
- 1 liter of Everclear or vodka
In a bottle mix chopped dried wormwood with the alcohol and leave for 1-2 weeks in a cool dark place. The filtered wormwood should be mixed in the other herbs. After 3 or 4 days sieve it again. This is the real Absinthe.
Brewing Absinthe at home in these ways is not recommended. Distilling is an illegal process and simply mixing the herbs with alcohol does not give a real Absinthe.
How To Brew Absinthe with a Herbal Blend Kit
There are many different herbal kits on sale online, for example the kits from Green Devil. One can buy their kits to get these things
- Their micron filtration system is unique.
- An Absinthe blend containing grande wormwood, hyssop, calamus, melissa, anise seed, fennel seed, star anise and coriander see.
- Absinthe flavoring and finishing blend containing more herbal ingredients.
Their Deluxe kit also contains two Absinthe spoons, two Absinthe glasses, a 1000ml bottle, two bottle labels, two muslin bags for infusing the herbs, a poster and a pamphlet containing information and instructions.
They claim that their finished Absinthe will contain as much as 70-90mg of thujone per liter which is the chemical found in wormwood and was believed to cause psychedelic effects. It is necessary to distill the Absinthe to get a real Absinthe.
How To Brew Absinthe With an Essence
Absinthe essences are available to buy from AbsintheKit.One can visit AbsintheKit.com to make real Absi