The Wormwood Society Absinthe Association is a non-profit educational and consumer advocacy organization focused on providing current, historically and scientifically accurate information about absinthe, the most maligned and misunderstood drink in history.
Please start with our Frequently Asked Questions.
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America needs its own absinthe festival, and what better way than to have it to evolve naturally from the hard work and success of Joe and Julie Legate's semi-private event, The Rocky Mountain Green Hour? Wormwood Society board members and professional absinthe distillers Joe and Julie have been hosting RMGH for three years now, so we already know that northern Montana boasts a glorious alpine ambiance and is home to some of the most flavorful and fragrant wild wormwood around. It's the perfect place to start! |
Concise absinthe facts at your fingertips with this one-page, two-sided flyer. Please feel free to download, print and distributeto your friends, drinking acquaintances, bar manager and liquor store manager.
Brian Robinson, review editor for the online forum [section of] The Wormwood Society,offers some insights on buying and preparing absinthe in the traditional style. Robinson is one of the most prolific collectors and reviewers of absinthe in the United States, with a personal stock ofmore than 150 brands from around the world, including some of the very rare pre-ban vintage bottles
Written by Michael Meyers Wednesday, 06 April 2011 17:09
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“Nobody Said There Would Be Math!”
Water, water, everywhere, and I didn't stop to think... Ratios? Proof? ABV? How does it all relate, interact, and affect my enjoyment of my absinthe? Well...
It's true. After 95 years, real absinthe is now legally available and being sold inside the United States in bars and stores.
We don't say "legalized" because no laws have changed. It appears that absinthe has been technically legal since the 1960s, possibly as early as the 1930s. What happened?
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Absinthe Education
A Classic Cocktail
Du Barry Cocktail
Savoy Cocktail Book, 1930
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