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Absinthe & The Green Fairy

Monday, October 19th, 2009

It comes in a bottle similar to what wine is sold in (or sometimes clear); but this drink is a beautiful green color, and not something you can pour and consume immediately. The process involves pouring some of the liquid into a glass and then placing a slotted spoon over the glass and sugar cubes on the spoon. After the sugar has been dissolved into the mixture some water is added, and then is it ready to drink.

The Green Fairy

The Green Fairy

Absinthe became popular in the late nineteenth – early twentieth centuries among the bohemian types of the time. So by default it was opposed by the prohibitionists and those that were socially conservative. It was said that when you drank it, the “Green Fairy” took hold of you and sent you on a wild ride of hallucinations, that she made you crazy for the time that you were under her spell. Some went so far as to say that it could provoke epilepsy and tuberculosis, as well as turn a law abiding man into a criminal.

By nineteen-fifteen it was outlawed in most countries, though the chemical thujone (present in small quantities in the drink) was hardly enough to give Absinthe the psychoactive effects it was said to have. For the united states, it stayed banned until 2007. But now that it is perfectly legal once again to buy and drink Absinthe in the united states, several breweries have taken it upon themselves to manufacture the green sprit. Notably; George Spirits of Alameda, California, Delaware Phoenix Distillery in New York, Integrity Spirits in Oregon, and Philadelphia Distilling in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Follow in the footsteps of Oscar Wilde and Aleister Crowley and try some for yourself. Or perhaps, just an absinthe flavored lolly? (Contains 100 percent less liquor and 200 percent more stick.)

May we reconvene under the blood red moon,
-Black Widow