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Summary: Learn about the history of absinthe in this free home brew video from our professional bartender and brewer of his own beers.

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The History of Absinthe

Hi. My name is Allen for Expert Village and today I'm going to discuss a controversial and banned alcohol commonly known as absinthe. Absinthe was invented in the late seventeen hundreds and it quickly became Europe's or one of Europe's most popular drinks. Now it was being produced in France and also Switzerland by a couple of different individuals and it actually became a very, very big and popular drink in France. Now the people enjoy it because of its psychoactive and hallucinogenic properties to it, mostly due to the wormwood content which was being produced and is one of the main ingredients in the absinthe. And this was very big for many years and then once the European prohibition rolled around, pretty much because of this, people were getting addicted to or so they were being said addicted to absinthe. Pretty much with this prohibition in Europe rolling around, the makers and the brewers of the absinthe pretty much put it to the side and said okay let's not do this anymore. And it's been many years and you could find it here and there in many European countries, but it was not big like it once was when it was first invented. Now being a couple of hundred years later, it's starting to regain some much needed drive, I guess and people really want to consume what was once invented back in the late seventeen hundreds. Now it's a really, really great drink. But again with the psycho active things, we might run into some of the same problems. Now of course the brewing process and the distillation process is a little bit different than it was back then. Maybe a little bit cleaner things like that, but you still have those certain chemicals in it.

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