Absinthe
Emerald green color liquor that turns to cloudy white when water is added. Absinthe inspired many prominent artists, writers and poets. - Vincent Van Gogh, whom painted a picture called 'Still Life with Absinthe' Ernest Hemingway masterpiece 'For Whom The Bell Tolls' was written under the influence of "The Green Fairy".
Henry-Louis Pernod the first to produce Absinthe commercially in 1797, he purchased the formula from Pierre Ordinaire a French exile living in Switzerland.
The main ingredients used to produce absinthe are neutral alcohol and a number of herbs including but not limited to wormwood and anise. Traditional absinthes used a white grape spirit ( or eau de vie), while lower cost absinthe was made from grain alcohol. The principal botanicals are grande wormwood, green anise, and florence fennel, which are often called "the holy trinity." Many other herbs may be used as well, such as petite wormwood (Artemisia pontica or Roman wormwood), hyssop, melissa, star anise, angelica, sweet flag, dittany, coriander, veronica, juniper, and nutmeg.
Artemisia Absinthium is the chief flavouring ingredient, native to Europe and Asia.; other aromatic ingredients include aniseed, licorice, hyssop, fennel, angelica root, star aniseed... Wormwood is a long-lived plant, with greyish-green leaves and the flowers have a greenish-yellow tint, and like leaves give off a strong aromatic odor and are bitter to the taste. Thujone is a toxic chemical present in wormwood and has a similar molecular geometry with THC, the active chemical in cannabis.
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