Last week, we posted a blog series on absinthe that included pointers on how to distill absinthe and how to make absinthe from kits. Some readers expressed kit absinthe is not “real” absinthe, with ...

Yesterday, we blogged about how you can make distilled absinthe, with links to websites that either sell stills or provide directions for creating homemade stills. But since distilling alcohol without ...

To hear Hollywood tell it, just a few swigs of absinthe is enough to send you on a hallucinogenic trip. Then there's Vincent Van Gogh. He cut off his ear after drinking it. Many wild stories and myths ...

Mark Maurice was one of those “crazy Limelight club kids,” as he puts it. One night at the club, he met a man carrying these mysterious green vials. The man told him the vials contained absinthe, and ...