Yesterday, we blogged about how you can make distilled absinthe, with links to websites that either sell stills or provide directions for creating homemade stills. But since distilling alcohol without ...

Striding through a field of prickly, thigh-high plants, Francois Guy ponders possible explanations. He has been asked why absinthe, a drink once considered so lethal it was almost universally banned ...

This week, we’ve shown you how to make absinthe through distillation and with kits. Today, we’re taking the really easy road — just buying it. Feel free to take it easy, we’re going to share which ...

A: It consists of a base spirit, often grain alcohol (though St. George Spirits uses a neutral brandy), to which herbs are infused. The spirit is then distilled again and additional herbs added, a ...

After years of an international ban and a rapid return to mass marketability, small distillers of absinthe are returning the drink to respectability Banned in most of the world in the early 20th ...

Philadelphia Distilling’s Vieux Carré Absinthe Supérieure was the second absinthe on the market after its legalization in 2007, and as one of America’s first legally bottled boozes of its kind, it has ...

Inside Derelict Airship Distillery’s Bastrop, Texas, warehouse, the smells of fennel and anise cling to the air as Matt Mancuso, Derelict’s head distiller, gives a tour of the stills. He’s not making ...

Let’s start with a few things that absinthe is not. Absinthe is not hallucinogenic. Absinthe won’t make you go crazy. Absinthe isn’t illegal. If you’re like most people, those three statements have ...

Perhaps you already have your own absinthe story. You drank it in New Orleans one foggy night, too full of fumes to remember much aside from the cloudy green swirl of the drink as water drip-dropped ...