Absenthe

Topic created by ragracer
on Thu, 5 Feb 2009 at 17:27

ragracer said on Thu, 5 Feb 2009 at 17:27...

Absenthe is made with wormwood but it is not the strong type and how much is in one bottle/

:-) said on Thu, 5 Feb 2009 at 20:11...

Absenthe? Are you sure you don't mean the one with southern wormwood (which has no thujone) that is legal in the US?

Troy said on Fri, 6 Feb 2009 at 06:45...

By absenthe you mean absente. Absenthe/ absente has two varieties: one with real wormwood (the new one) and one with a different type (the old one)
Both are legal in the US as the new one has no detectable level of thujone and the old one has none at all. Is the new one called absenthe perhaps.

ty9 said on Sat, 7 Feb 2009 at 10:28...

Absenthe sounds like a perfume to me. Wormwood in a bottle? You mean how much wormwood is used in the recipe I think. This usually translates into thujone content, the more wormwood there is, the more thujone. Absente has no thujone as it is made with another kind of wormwood and the new one Absente (Grand Absente) has less than 10ppm.