http://oxygenee.com/blog Dans le Doubs, absinthe-toi! Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:57:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We're working feverishly here on the final proofs of our much anticipated new book, "The Absinthe Encyclopedia - A Guide to the Lost World of Absinthe and La Fee Verte". This will be the most comprehensive reference in English on the drink. For those who've already pre-ordered their ... http://oxygenee.com/blog/2008/09/30/the-absinthe-encyclopedia-an-update/ The Absinthe Encyclopedia - A Guide to the Lost World of Absinthe and La Fée Verte by David Nathan-Maister For those poor souls who don't receive the Virtual Absinthe Museum newsletter, here are details of the new book due out at the end of October: http://www.oxygenee.com/absinthe-buy/books6.html http://oxygenee.com/blog/2008/08/15/the-absinthe-encyclopedia-a-guide-to-the-lost-world-of-absinthe-and-la-fee-verte/ Chemical Composition of Vintage Preban Absinthe with Special Reference to Thujone, Fenchone, Pinocamphone, Methanol, Copper, and Antimony Concentrations By Dirk W. Lachenmeier, David Nathan-Maister, Theodore A. Breaux, Eva-Maria Sohnius, Kerstin Schoeberl, and Thomas Kuballa Published in Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, April 2008 PDF available at Thujone Info here: http://www.thujone.info/thujone-absinthe-39 I'm very pleased to ... http://oxygenee.com/blog/2008/04/18/thujone-in-pre-ban-absinthe-finally-some-definitive-answers/ "I remember a girl I knew in my bachelor days. An American, she had worked as a model in several haute couture salons in Paris and had acquired a taste for absinthe. We were at her place one evening and she asked me if I would like to have a ... http://oxygenee.com/blog/2008/01/05/absinthe-in-playboy-1971/ The Virtual Museum has just published a complete English edition of the "bible" of absinthe distillation: Pierre Duplais' seminal "Traité de la Fabrication des Liqueurs et de la Distillation des Alcools". This is the authoritative French distillation guide. It went through seven editions from 1855 to 1900 and is the ... http://oxygenee.com/blog/2008/01/05/duplais-the-bible-of-absinthe-distillation-in-english/ Sounds like a good title for a Robert Ludlum novel, doesn't it? There was some concern in the Viridian camp that the account from Kubler's lead attorney we published earlier didn't fully reflect the process as seen from their perspective. Jared Gurfein, the Virdidan CEO, has now given the Virtual Absinthe ... http://oxygenee.com/blog/2007/12/30/the-legalization-of-absinthe-in-the-us-the-viridian-rebuttal/ Painted in Paris in the winter of 1902/3, and measuring just 30.5 x 24cm, this superb watercolour is one of Picasso's most striking absinthe-related works - and, I think, the earliest. Picasso met Cornuty in Barcelona during one of the most difficult periods of his life, and the portrait of ... http://oxygenee.com/blog/2007/12/19/labsinthe-le-poete-cornuty/ This year, after 95 years of prohibition, absinthe with less than 10ppm of thujone was finally authorised again for sale in the United States. The two key players behind this were the small family owned Kubler distillery in Switzerland - the same distillery, that two years earlier, ... http://oxygenee.com/blog/2007/12/13/the-legalization-of-absinthe-in-the-us-the-inside-scoop/ I've had a reply to my previous post below on this blog. Since this is an interesting debate, here's my response in turn: Fabulous Fox says: "Why is this an Either/or situation? Absinthe's has had a long history of being both gentleman and murderer--from utilizing the powers of Copper Sulfate to the taking ... http://oxygenee.com/blog/2007/12/06/a-reply-to-a-reply/ "Czech absinth" has become a shorthand for inauthentic and inaccurately marketed absinthes not because of some bizarre anti-Czech racism as some blogs have postulated, but because most (not all, but most) Czech absinthes ARE inauthentic and dishonestly marketed. "Czech beer" by way of contrast is a byword for quality around ... http://oxygenee.com/blog/2007/12/05/some-thoughts-on-czech-absinthe/