Using the Correct Base Alcohol for an Absinthe Recipe

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Hi my name's Allen for Expert Village, and today I'm going to discuss the controversial and banned alcohol, commonly known as Absinthe. We're not using a distillation process. That would actually create the grain alcohol, so instead we use alcohol that's already been distilled by professional companies. The green devil company, they actually recommend using Ever Clear, which is grain alcohol; very, very strong grain alcohol as well as a vodka. The vodka they didn't really say if it needs to be Smirnoff or one of the big brands or anything. So I figured since we're brewing it with different flavors, why not go with a little bit lower end range vodka. This vodka is one of the lower end vodkas, but it's quadruple distilled, so it has some decent flavor to it. And mixing with the grain alcohol, the Everclear, it's going to be a very, very strong thing. Now again this is an addition to the kit. It doesn't come with the kit, so you would have to go out and purchase the alcohol. This together, I think, ran me about twenty dollars. Not a big deal and you're going to have a lot to go. But you're going to need two one-liter bottles; one liter of Everclear, one liter of Vodka. Now if the Everclear were too expensive for you, the company says you could also use just two liters of vodka, which might be ok. It's just not going to be as strong, and you might as well follow the right steps. Especially if you're going to spend the money on the whole kit, and you want to achieve a flavor and a final product that tastes like what was consumed in the Early Ages of Absinthe. So pretty much, like I said, went out and bought the Everclear brand grain alcohol, and that's going to just bypass our distillation phase. And that's really going to be all our base alcohol and base liquor for our absinthe. Now you can pick these up at any store. The Everclear by itself, of course, and the vodka I would recommend really whatever brand you want to go to. Don't go crazy with it because you're still mixing different alcohols and adding different flavors. Since they didn't specify, I'm really not going to specify, and I think you're still going to achieve the same results.

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