The infamous spirit was initially banned in the country from 1912 to 2007.

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 ...

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Evan Rail’s “The Absinthe Forger” takes the reader on a picaresque tour through the world of vintage alcohol collectors in pursuit of a fraudster. By J. D. Biersdorfer J.D. Biersdorfer is the ...

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 ...

From roughly 1860 to 1890, French wine drinkers were under assault. A blight called phylloxera had nearly decimated the country’s vineyards and the nation’s wine industry. What wine remained in shops ...

Detroit City Distillery’s Absinthe Supérieure Isabella, named after a famed 16th-century alchemist, pays tribute to a centuries-old recipe. Credit: Courtesy photo A Halloween pop-up and a rare ...

Want to party like it’s 1899? Well, now you can–sort of. After nearly a century-long ban on absinthe in the U.S., a federal agency has begrudgingly allowed two European distillers to sell the ...

The W South Beach’s Living Room bar has a new bottle on the menu. It’s called fenom, and it’s a modern day absinthe bottled and distilled in France. The traditional form of the liquor is green, ...