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Kevin Herson has a unique use for his Harlem basement: distilling absinthe. He owns Doc's All Natural Spirits, a still-underground production line inspired by old Prohibition laws and Belle Époque culture. I visited the operation to learn about what it CultureMap: How did you become interested in absinthe TB: Lucid emerged as an answer to the challenge to distill absinthe on a scale that had not been done since 1915. With our success in overturning the U.S. ban on absinthe, we needed a truly hand A fourth-generation producer of spirits -- Guy's great-grandfather Armand Guy founded the family's liquor business, basing it on absinthe -- Francois Guy has spent much of the past 20 years searching for a distilling process to remove some of the plant's Plenty of craft distillers are now doing absinthe well in the U.S., such as Denver’s Leopold Brothers, Oregon’s Wild Card, and Pennsylvania’s Philadelphia Distilling. Breaux estimates total absinthe sales to be about 30,000 cases in the U.S. annually Legate says that the stories about absinthe-induced madness have been overblown by novice historians. It is true, however, that the herbs used to distill absinthe impact mood. As tequila might make one feisty and red wine has a tendency to bring on sleep He has been on a round-the-world quest for 12 years to recreate 19th-century absinthe. Whenever he gets time off, Breaux heads straight to the Loire Valley town of Saumur to distill absinthe. Using a couple of 100-year-old bottles of original Pernod .

NICKISCH: Karl got his first-hand experience from absinthe made illegally in Switzerland's Val-de-Travers, that's the valley where the spirit was first distilled in the 18th century. Mr. KARL: There were still bootleggers distilling absinthe in hidden Most of the detrimental effects reported in the early 20th century were more likely the result of absinthe's high alcohol content — around 55 to 75 percent. Pawelski and his wife, Amanda, began distilling absinthe themselves in 2007, the year it was "I teamed up with a CSIRO scientist friend, because he had previous experience in the complicated process of distilling an absinthe based on an 1871 recipe which we tweaked," he said. "But half way through, he … had to have … heart surgery. I was left (Feb. 5, 2015) — The American Distilling Institute (ADI site workshops at regional distilleries including gin distillation at Moonshine University, absinthe making at Copper & Kings American Brandy Co., rye whiskey training at Willett Distilling .

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