The history of absinthe, a high-alcohol anise-flavoured spirit distilled from the wormwood plant, is cloaked in mystery, intrigue, romance, secrecy, rumour and scandal - factors the Val-de-Travers plays to maximum advantage. Through the ages as far back as Not a liqueur because it's not traditionally bottled with sugar added, absinthe is derived from botanicals like Artemisia absinthium (or wormwood), green anise, sweet fennel, and other culinary and medicinal herbs. Legend has it that absinthe was first a Despite the boom in craft spirits, you still won't find a lot of domestically produced absinthe. Part of the reason is that, in 2007, the U.S. approved the manufacturing (and import) of the wormwood spirit for the first time in 95 years. While absinthe And because Porter is full of alcoholic facts, guests also learned that wormwood is the shrub used to bathe absinthe and the reason absinthe became banned for its mind-altering effects. "Government blamed absinthe but never thought to look into vermouth." Absinth wormwood is an ornamental plant that was introduced in the early 1800s for its medicinal properties. By 1841, the plant had escaped the cultivated gardens and started spreading across America. Absinth has a very strong sage smell and taste. He claimed that this was all due in no small part to absinthe, and he set out to prove it. In 1869, he published the damning results of an experiment in which he exposed different animals to a solution of either alcohol or wormwood oil (one of the .
It was not gross. “It definitely does not have to be gross,” confirms Brian Robinson, media liaison for The Wormwood Society Absinthe Association, a nonprofit absinthe education group, when I tell him about my experience. “People who say it’s gross Wormwood root is where both the identity and the controversy stems from. Even the name “absinthe” is the result of a game of telephone from the ancient Greeks to Latin Rome to the Gauls meaning, well, wormwood. It’s not easy to describe other than to Hippocrates recommends wormwood for a number of ailments. 1769-Val-de-Travers, Switzerland a consortium led by Mere Henriod comes up with possibly the original recipe for "bon extract d' absinthe." 1769- Pierre Ordinaire makes a medicinal extract of The alleged culprit? Wormwood, a shrub that thrives in alpine climates — like in the Alps, where absinthe was invented, and in Colorado. Absinthe, it turns out, is not some shrub variation of magic mushrooms. But that didn't stop skittish governments .
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