Comments on: Absinthe Verte – St. George Spirits

By: salisbury adman

salisbury adman — Fri, 28 May 2010 19:25:35 +0000

Not true- modern test can isolate the individual ingredients and rule out false positives of thujone content. You can easilly find the anatomical makeup of preban absinthe and see that most had very little thujone. If you like simply buy a “bitter” version from europe. They have 35 mg

By: Duke

Duke — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:54:31 +0000

Yes all USA bottled absinthe must test thujone-free. There is a lot of controversy about this:

“But the biggest controversy surrounding the liquor–once dubbed “one of the worst enemies of man”–is about not its resurgence but rather its authenticity. Enthusiasts claim the thujone-free brands, which contain less than 10 parts per million (p.p.m.) of the chemical, are made with the same relatively small amounts of thujone as the old brews. But scientists wrote in the British Medical Journal that absinthe bottled before 1900 packed up to 260 p.p.m. of thujone–which may not sound like much, but consider that only 15 parts per billion of lead in drinking water is enough to scare regulators.

“They are playing pretend,” study co-author Wilfred Arnold says of the liquor’s new cheerleaders. “It is nothing like the old stuff.” Time Magazine

By: Sheila

Sheila — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 04:38:29 +0000

There is a very cool documentary on absinthe’s history and how it came to be villianized on the From Hell DVD’s special features. The name of the documentary? Absinthe Makes The Heart Grow Fonder. Check it out.

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:26:11 +0000

Having done some research on Absinthe myself, pre-internet, I thought I’d share what I learned. The issues that people suffered from Absinthe most likely stemmed from the quality and type of alcohol used and not from the chemical Thujone.