Last week, we posted a blog series on absinthe that included pointers on how to distill absinthe and how to make absinthe from kits. Some readers expressed kit absinthe is not “real” absinthe, with ...

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Among the early spirits released were a traditional green and an original style of red absinthe, called Toulouse Green and Toulouse Red, respectively. Atelier Vie recently released Toulouse Blue, or ...

A Super Bowl featuring the home-state team is an event worthy of an exception, but as a rule I don't drink a lot of blue or green cocktails. The trouble with most brightly colored drinks is that they ...

Once banned for nearly a century for its purported dangerous hallucinogen effects, absinthe is now making a comeback in the United States with the help of two former Heublein executives. A decade ...

Let me just start off by saying that I can really respect an establishment whose drink menu is three times the size of its food menu. There is no better indication that you're in for a stellar evening ...

Absinthe, a liqueur, is a combination of spirits and herbs, mainly fennel, anise, and a type of wormwood called Artemisia absinthium. That’s what it’s named after. Van Gogh and Picasso were big fans ...

Absinthe is a high-proof spirit crafted from a blend of herbs, including grand wormwood, green anise, and Florence fennel. It has a controversial past and was banned for almost 100 years in the United ...

The Absinthe Forger by Evan Rail includes two parallel narratives—an investigation into the mentality and doings of an accused forger, and an exploration into the layered, multifaceted world of the ...

The Green Fairy, once the drink of choice for the likes of van Gogh and Zola, is being poured with panache along the French-Swiss border. Ice-cold water pours from an absinthe fountain into a glass of ...