January 2007
READERS of Ernest Hemingway know "Death in the Afternoon" as a book about bullfighting. But to drinkers with a taste for obscure booze, it is also a cocktail that Hemingway contributed to a 1935 collection of...
31st October 2006
Spooky Sebor
Sebor Absinth TM rocked the party at Chinawhite in London on 31st October 2006. Green Fairies handed out special Halloween Sebor Absinth TM brews, and Jamie Stephenson, the World Champion Bartender, gave elaborate...
September 2006
Fader
What you already know about absinthe probably involves some corniness in the form of wormwood-less neo imports, dusty Edgar Degas drank this epithets and/or some friend of yours who smuggled in a...
April/May 2006
What was banned in the US and most European nations prior to World War 1, is nick-named “the green fairy” and is now making a come–back? No, not Elton John. Its absinthe! But wait: isn’t it illegal to drink absinthe? Actually, um … no! You see, absinthe is illegal for sale in the US, but not for consumption, so the folks at Sebor Absinth TM (£58; seborabsinth.com)...
March 2006
It sounded such a simple assignment: test the hangover prevented by drinking the absinthe (yup, the stuff with the wormwood). After all, the fates had seen to it that they both arrived the same day, which happened to be the day...
July 2004
Firetrap 66
1,500 party goers: some dressed as their twisted thought (and others just acted them out), 3 rooms, 16 live performances from hip hop to thrash rock, a very generous drinks sponsor, 4 nurse pole dancers, a haunted Hotel 66 crammed full ...
April 2003
In their latest (April 2003) issue, Playboy magazine in the US have featured our very own Poitin in an article about St Patrick’s day!
A must for anyone with Irish ancestry, this legendary Irish...
2001
From Hell
Our very own MD Jeremy Hill showed Jonny Depp how it’s done on the set of the 2001 From Hell movie. You can see the traditional Absinth Ritual performed with panache in a clip from the film here. Rumour has it that our Sebor...
March 2006
By Ted Breaux’s estimate, there are only a few dozen people alive who have had the opportunity to taste authentic absinthe, the drink whose notoriety defined the Belle Epoque and which had been banned in many countries ...
November 2005
It's been celebrated as a muse and banned as a poison. Now an obsessed microbiologist has cracked the code for absinthe - and distilled his own.
At first, Ted Breaux dismissed the urgent warnings on TV and radio. He even ignored the sirens that started blaring Saturday afternoon. "The last two times...
June 2006
Known as the fée verte, or the green fairy (for its emerald colour), who was famously enchanted and enslaved by her lovers, Absinthe is a drink with a sensational history. Jenny Woolf traces the story of Absinthe through its...
November 2002
"Ah! the Green Goddess! What is the fascination that makes her so adorable and so terrible?"-Aleister Crowley
Absinthe arrived at its station as the toast of the Belle Epoche by a roundabout route. Though there is some controversy as to its lineage, most historians agree the modern version of absinthe can be traced back to the modest...
January 2006
An illegal alcoholic drink that gained notoriety in the 19th century for its hallucinogenic effects is emerging as the latest twist in a modern mystery surrounding a Greenwich man who vanished from his honeymoon cruise last summer...
April 2001
Ice water dripped like plasma over a sugar cube poised on a spoon, then fell into the lucid green liquid at the bottom of the glass, each drop spreading a liquid mist until all the emerald clarity was replaced by opalescent cloud. A half-remembered line of poetry crept up on me: "The ceremony of innocence is drowned." Where did that come from? I...
March 2005
Absinthe, the drink banned almost a century ago as "madness in a bottle" is making a comeback.
The Swiss, who invented absinthe, legalized it this month, hoping to boost a sluggish regional economy...
July 2004
Picture yourself at the end of the nineteenth century in France. The Bohemian movement is in full swing. Revolutions in art and literature are brewing, technology is advancing rapidly, and more and more people are putting their creative efforts into the expansion of culture. You walk into a Paris café and see someone sitting at a corner table, scribbling or...
