It is necessary to know about brewing Absinthe at home where there is unavailability of real wormwood Absinthe.
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. Besides using a blend of 13 herbs Czech company Sebor also uses chamomile and mint in addition to wormwood and a 100 year old recipe to make their Absinthe.
There are 3 main ways to make your own Absinthe drink:-
1.Use a recipe for the distillation of own Absinthe liquor.
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)
– Importance of 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. It is necessary to re-heat the mixture before filtration and dilution.
There is no requirement of distillation for the preparation of other recipes. This is an example:-
– Take 30g/ 1 ounce dried Wormwood
– 1 teaspoon hyssop
– There is necessity of 1 tablespoon angelica
– One can also use anise seeds in place of fennel seeds
– One will need a teaspoon of lemon balm
– One will need 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. Refilter after 3 or 4 days. This is the real Absinthe.
Brewing Absinthe at home in these ways is not recommended. Real Absinthe is not produced without distillation.
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. Things that are in their kits:-
– Information about their unique micron filtration system.
– An Absinthe blend is required which includes grande wormwood, hyssop, calamus, melissa, anise seed, fennel seed, star anise and coriander.
– Absinthe flavoring and finishing blend which contains 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.
Aa per their claim their finished Absinthe may contain as much as 70-90mg of thujone per liter. A real Absinthe is produced after distillation.
How To Brew Absinthe With an Essence
Absinthe essences are available to buy from AbsintheKit.The website AbsintheKit.com is the best way to make real Absinthe at home. Traditional Absinthe herbs are used for making essences and are already distilled. Have own bottled Absinthe by mixing the essence with Everclear or vodka.
4 types of essence are available – one to make a classic verte Absinthe, one to make a clear La Bleue style Absinthe, one to make an orange flavored Absinthe and another to make a stronger more bitter Absinthe. One can find real wormwood in all of them and essences are used by the Absinthe industry.
AbsintheKit.A person can also buy an Absinthe kit which is available with essence to make 14 bottles of Absinthe, bottle labels and a plastic measure. One can visit their website to know more about how to brew Absinthe with their essences.
