(At 7 a.m., you'll find locals, just getting off work at other bars or hotels, perched on the barstools.) An antique absinthe fountain sits in place of pride on the front corner of the bar. You can enjoy the real thing or a taste-alike, such as Pernod "I wanted to know what it was for, how it was used," he recalled. When the owner of the antiques shop explained that the 100-year-old utensil played a part in the drinking of absinthe, a highly concentrated liquor, Bordelon was intrigued. Absinthe They have embarked on a quixotic quest to recapture the heady taste of the 19th century, guided by rare bottles of pre-Prohibition absinthe discovered in a Corsican cellar. Those vintage finds predate the absinthe bans that started in the Belgian Congo in Is there a story? The strangest thing happened in late 1996, whereby not one, but two full, sealed bottles of antique absinthe fell into my hands from two different directions. One was from an old estate, the other a family heirloom of a business associate. "The theory that absinthe causes hallucinations was just exaggerated. There was no absinthe around, so people speculated. I've tested absinthes from the 1800s. Vintage absinthe contained about 10 percent of the thujone that was originally theorized. But T.A. Breaux, an absinthe historian and distiller who created the new Lucid Absinthe Supérieure brand, says that in 2000, he tested vintage bottles of absinthe and surprisingly found no significant amounts of thujone. "I was very shocked," Breaux says. .
He couldn't hit on the elusive answer until the mid-nineties, when he acquired two unopened bottles of real vintage absinthe. By 2000 he got the equipment he needed to analyze the product. "It opened up a whole new world of possibilities," he said. Ice water was dripped onto the cube, slowly dissolving it into the dose of absinthe in the glass. This sugary drink is still popular in Europe. Twenty years ago, the accepted way to finish a piece of antique furniture for our home was to strip the wood Image: Courtesy of Dirk Lachenmeier, showing the implements of their absinthe sampling process, including a vintage bottle of Pernod Fils, a popular pre-ban absinthe brand. See Also: A fantastic Wired article — "The Mystery of the Green Menace" — on were steeped after the initial distillation for further refinement and color. What began as dabbling in chemistry has led to a full-on production of vintage absinthe within an historic French distillery. With the recent backing of Viridian Spirits in New .
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