There are a slew of new bars opening up in Los Angeles that are strictly Absinthe bars..
Here are a list of 4 I know of:
The tiny Portland distillery Integrity Spirits has put its sought-after craft vodka and gin on the back burner to brew up something in high demand these days: absinthe.
Other distillers are also scrambling to fill orders as sales across the U.S. surge for the long-banned spirit affectionately called “the green fairy.”
“There are about six or seven brands of absinthe available now, and I expect 20 to 25 by year-end,” said Brian Robinson, a member of the Wormwood Society, a group of absinthe aficionados.
Austrian distillery Fischer announced in July it would soon begin exporting to the United States an absinthe called Mata Hari. Also last month, Grande Absente from France hit U.S. shelves.
Sale of absinthe was prohibited for nearly 100 years in the United States and some European countries, damned for its now-debunked hallucinogenic and addictive properties.
Associated with famous artists such as Vincent Van Gogh, Edgar Allen Poe and Edgar Degas, absinthe’s identification with the Bohemian artistic set in the late 19th and early 20th centuries lent an aura of romance.
The bans on absinthe have been slowly lifted around the world and the United States approved the first absinthe for sale last year.
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