0.7 l bottle,50% (100 proof)alcohol by volume.High amount of wormwood (Artemisia Absinthium).Pleasant green opalescent cloudiness upon adding water and ice.Original recipe of the company Friedrich Fischer from 1881.Today's absinthe is not dangerous, since it no longer contains any impure alcohol or fusel oils like it did in the 19th century.īut, then as now, it never hurts to keep in mind the idea that "every medicine is poison, and every poison is medicine – it all depends on the dosage!" In 1998, absinthe production was once again permitted in EU countries – it's only recently, however, that the drink has become more widely appreciated. The recent movies "Moulin Rouge" (starring Nicole Kidman) and "From Hell" (with Johnny Depp) attest to the popularity of this drink at the time. Even Picasso painted women drinking absinthe, and would often immortalise a glass of the stuff on his canvasses. The French impressionists seem to have had more absinthe than oxygen in their blood. Painters worshipped "the green fairy" like a lover. Even Oscar Wilde and Ernest Hemingway were known to turn to the drink for inspiration. It was an elixir that inspired such artists as Toulouse-Lautrec, Manet, Renoir, Van Gogh and Gauguin, fuelled flights of fancy and lent perfection to verses by such authors as Baudelaire and Verlaine. It's safe to say that no other alcoholic drink stimulated painting and poetry to the extent that absinthe did. The neurotoxin "thujon", found only in wormwood, joined forces with alcohol to facilitate heightened creativity and colour-sensitivity. The medicine "Absinthe" did not contain any anise this was first added later on in France, in order to mask the taste of the wormwood. It included several "herbs": extract of grand wormwood, sage, liquorice, violet root, cinnamon, a few secret ingredients and, of course, natural green chlorophyll food colouring (which is why it came to be called "the green fairy").
The original recipe was actually medicinal in nature, intended to act as a muscle relaxant. The first mentions of an absinthe-like drink come down to us from the ancient Greeks: Pythagoras and Hippocrates wrote of its healing properties, its aphrodisiac effect and the increase in creativity they experienced upon drinking it. The cult drink from the turn of the last century is back! ABSINTHE – THE GREEN FAIRY LEGEND FROM THE PAST
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