This past summer my husband and I experimented with making homemade absinthe. We got a kit of stuff from Green Devil which included two packages of herbs, a special filter, a fancy bottle, an absinthe glass, fancy sugar cubes and an absinthe spoon.
We soaked the first packet of herbs in vodka for 3 days, removed it, then soaked the other bag for an additional 2 days. Then we sent the whole batch through the filter 3 times and into the fancy bottle.
We then poured 1 ounce into the "Absinthe glass" (really just a footed beer glass
), placed the absinthe spoon with a sugar cube on top, and slowly dripped 4 ounces ice water over the sugar cube and into the absinthe.
Didn't really get the "green fairy" effect and then upon drinking this potion, the results were decidedly......Nasty
!
The drink was so bitter I could barely force it down. Hubby started drinking the stuff straight on rocks and proceded to get slightly drunk (probably from the vodka alone). I then tried mixing it with gingerale to soften the bitter taste-to no avail. I couldn't down enough to even get an alcohol buzz, much less the lyrical, poetic euphoria so popularized by the likes of Hemingway and other artists of the Belle Epoque. I started reading some Hem (
To Have and Have Not) to hopefully jumpstart the effect. No such luck.
I'm bummed. What am I going to do with the stuff now?