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Video Tutorial: Becoming an Absinthe Master
Thought you guys might enjoy this.There are two types of people in this world.1. Those that can extrapolate from incomplete information.
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Aha yes, Ted was the guy I referred to on the podcast who found evidence of french distillers using Spinach as a colouring botanical.Make Booze, not War!
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I haven’t seen Ted mention spinach, but Alan Bishop says it tooThere are two types of people in this world.1. Those that can extrapolate from incomplete information.
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Spinach, in my opinion, is a last resort. I have it in my garden, but would never use it for coloring Absinthe unless I lost the proper botanicals.I noticed that he mentioned uranium glass and shone a UV torch on a glass, which glowed green. My current drink is an Absinthe in a uranium glass and looks amazing both with and without UV, but I haven’t worked out how to post a pic of it.My 2021 lights up red under UV.
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Is it just me or is the sound on that clip shit ?
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I’m just now starting to dive into absinthe, but if I find any historical evidence spinach was added ill let y’all know the source. And yeah the audio quality sucked, seemed like it was shot on a cellphone or something.There are two types of people in this world.1. Those that can extrapolate from incomplete information.
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Some quite interesting info there….just a shame about the sound quality.
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I’ve seen several 19th century French references to spinach being used to colour absinthe, along with parsley and nettles, although this seems to have been more for the bottom shelf brands. In Lebeuf’s “Nouveau manuel complet de l’amélioration des liquides”, the following is given:On colore encore les absinthes ordinaires de la manière suivante:Feuilles vertes pilées (épinards, orties, morelle, etc.) … 1 kilog.Crème de tartre … 150 gram.Absinthe … 10 litres.Après infusion de quelques jours, on réunit cette couleur à l’absinthe comme il est dit plus haut; mais elle ne tient pas à la lumière, même en y ajoutant la dose d’alun indiquée.On peut encore colorer les absinthes avec la couleur verte liquide (voir aux Produits œnologiques).En anglais:Ordinary absinthes are still colored in the following way:Pounded green leaves (spinach, nettles, nightshade, etc.) … 1 kilog.Cream of tartar … 150 gram.Absinthe … 10 liters.After infusion for a few days, this color is combined with the absinthe as mentioned above; but it does not hold up to light, even when adding the indicated dose of alum.Absinthes can also be colored with liquid green color (see Oenological Products).If you think nightshade is a little concerning, the below bottom shelf brands often used copper and antimony compounds, which no doubt contributed to absinthe’s reputation as a dangerous drink.
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Thanks sweeps!There are two types of people in this world.1. Those that can extrapolate from incomplete information.
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