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Absinthe Kit Revisited

Not being one to leave well enough alone, I decided to re-filter my Absinthe. I'm glad I did.

If you are going to get one of these kits, I recommend using a combination of a wire coffee filter basket and matching coffee filter. You can pick up a basket by itself:

http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/product.asp?order_num=1&SKU=12959796

Filter first through the basket, then put in a filter and run the batch through again. I would just use the filter basket by itself between the two herb soaks, just to make sure none of the herbs that may have escaped the bag make it into the second soak.

I set my basket down into my big brew funnel. It stays put on its own, so I could do all the filter process without assistance.

Absinthe Kit Review

I just finished bottling my Absinthe that I made from the kit. Here's a pic:

From Mead Room

I wanted to share some thoughts from my experience with the kit.

• The filter from the kit is a joke. I ended up with little black bits and dust in my bottles. The coffee filter I used between herb soaks did a much better job. I'll know for next time.
• It may not seem like it, but the labels are the peel-and-stick type.
• The taste is interesting. I diluted with water and added sugar, per the ritual. It is an acquired taste, licorice and herb with a hint of mint.
• The kit is easy. The hardest part is the filtering. Coffee filters are maddeningly slow but do a good job.
• The glass they provide in the kit isn't glass, it's plastic. The spoon is thin, cheap metal. This is not surprising.
• The instruction pamphlet has numerous grammar and spelling errors.

If you buy the kit, know that you are really buying the herb "recipe". I can nitpick all day, but it does make it easy to make a product as close to real Absinthe as you can get without distilling.

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