How to Make Absinthe: Home Brew Recipe : How to Finish Filtering Absinthe

Learn about The Micron Filter Stage for making Absinthe in this free home brew video from our professional bartender and brewer of his own beers.

Expert: Allen Gottfried
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Bio: Allen Gottfried has been bartending and working in the food service industry for more than three years.
Filmmaker: Allen Gottfried

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Howto & Style

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• absinthe
• wormwood
• home
• brew
• french
• paris
• cafe
• Absinth
• Thujone
• Van
• Gogh
• Verlaine
• Rimbaud
• Manet
• Modigliani
• green
• devil

[DrC17h19no3]

what the f**k is this s**t?

[karasumusha]

How do you activate microns?

[StalkingU24l7]

1:35 That's what she said..

[lookin4space]

A tea towel or a reusable coffee filter works just fine for a "micron filter".

[trentcambremer]

I will sum up everything that he tells you in this video in one sentence. Buy an absinthe kit and follow the directions.

[wsmith1213]

what this guy is doing is using the alcohol, which is an organic solvent (you should have paid attention in organic chemistry class) and extracting the thojone which is a naturally occurring molecule, from the wormwood. then the second bag is basically adding flavorings, like honey into tea, cranberry into vodka :-)

[wsmith1213]

::heat it up and have the vapor flowing into a chilled condenser.:: If the boiling point of the thujone is lower thatn the alcohol, then I would want to do a low heat separation of the thujone from the alcohol and take it straight for a really intense effect and use the grain alcohol used to extract the thujone from the wormwood for punch or something.

[wsmith1213]

i don't know what the boiling point of thujone is, which we're trying to get, what I don know is if the boiling point of the thujuone is higher than alcohols, distilling it would be a separation extraction, and you would just have separated the grain alcohol from the mixture without taking the thujone with it.

[ScottsCaseFiles]

The recipies and techniquest for how absinthe was made before the bans is readily available in the historical record and is used as a guide for present-day, traditional absinthe distillers.

At least one even uses the original copper alembics used to make absinthe in one distillery long ago.

[ScottsCaseFiles]

In addition, though absinthe was banned in Switzerland, its production never ceased in the form of underground stills. Several of those former bootleg distillers have since gone legitimate, making their absinthe available as a commercial offering.

So there is quite a bit of traditional absinthe being made today.

[wsmith1213]

they stopped selling traditional absinthe about 100 years ago