absinth: St George Spirits Absinthe

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I had to get a bottle. Luckily, the first distiller to produce absinthe in the United States in almost 100 years, St. George Spirits, is in Alameda. So, I sat down with a bottle of Absinthe Verte and its creator, Lance Winters. My first question To adherents of absinthe’s lurid, mythic glamour Along with Clear Creek Distillery in Portland, Ore., and St. George Spirits in the San Francisco Bay Area, Germain-Robin was one of a handful of small distilleries in the 1980s that helped to I hate black licorice. I don’t drink pastis or ouzo or sambuca, so why the hell was I standing outside Hangar One–St. George Spirits on a December morning in a thin jacket waiting for them to throw open the doors to Absinthe Verte, the nation’s first I recently tried the three absinthes we carry at Le Dû’s Wines: the Kübler, which tastes like a high-alcohol licorice stick; the Lucid Absinthe Supérieure, which has a smoother anise flavor; and my favorite, the St. George Spirits Absinthe Verte It didn’t take me long to realize I wouldn’t have to travel far to get to the source: St. George Spirits in Alameda had been the first distillery to produce and sell absinthe in the United States post-ban. I decided to start my quest there. When I Troia's absinthe tools, produced by his company Tempus Fugit and available on his Web site www.absinthetools.com as well as at www.absintheonline.com, will be sold in Alameda on Friday at St. George Spirits' official launch of Absinthe Verte. It's the .

A piece written while inebriating oneself with absinthe. Read on as Elise test-tastes these After some legal wrangling, the agency agreed - with some limits. Last week, St. George Spirits of Alameda received the news that, after seven applications All the cocktails featured St. George Spirits of Alameda, California. In 2007, the distillery became the first in the country to produce absinthe since the lifting of a 1912 ban on the drink. Fletcher, who created the first two courses of the night the result is absinthe. While there are numerous other absinthes on the market (from Brazil and Western Europe) the one making the biggest splash these days is from St. George Spirits, which is primarily known as the maker of the Hanger One line of vodkas. When the first legal absinthe in a century went on sale in the United States a few months ago, it kicked off a demand for the controversial liquor all across the country. In Alameda, Calif., where St. George Spirits, an artisinal distiller operating out of .