The potent emerald-green blend of wormwood, green anise and fennel, known as "the Green Fairy," was once celebrated by French ...

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 ...

While it is possible to purchase most alcohols in the United States, there are a few specific alcohols that are illegal to ...

As with every variety of alcoholic spirit, it should hardly come as a surprise that absinthe has its own national holiday. With an entire day dedicated to the infamous green beverage that was banned ...

Cincinnati saloons rarely served absinthe in the French style, employing it more as an adjunct to alcoholic concoctions, like bitters. If you were to wander into one of Cincinnati’s tonier watering ...

Want to drink like the poets and artists of old did? Try absinthe, the verdant liqueur that tastes like black licorice and derives much of its flavor from a plant called wormwood, a.k.a, Artemisia ...