http://oxygenee.com/blog Dans le Doubs, absinthe-toi! Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:34:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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/ There's been an astonishing recent upsurge of misinformation on absinthe, propogated quite deliberately it seems by several bloggers. Their modus operandi is to make palpably false and often libellous allegations under the pretext of encouraging debate, often with a show of faux scholarship - but posts putting forward contrary viewpoints ... http://oxygenee.com/blog/2007/12/05/absinthe-truth-and-lies/ The home of La Fee Verte, the magical cliffs of Creux du Van, high in the mountains above the Val de Travers. We gathered there - from France, Switzerland, Italy, the UK, the US, Germany, Scandanavia - the day before the Fete de l'Absinthe at Boveresse to celebrate 10 years of ... http://oxygenee.com/blog/2007/06/30/creux-du-van-15th-june-2007/