Absinthe’s history mirrors the way it’s meant to be prepared: a mix of the misunderstood and the legitimately unusual. For most of its existence, the spirit has been slandered, ostracized and, in ...

A new spirit is coming to downtown Lorain. Kurt Hernon, owner of landmark Lorain cocktail bar Speak of the Devil, 201 W. Fifth St., said there is perhaps no spirit more misunderstood than absinthe. On ...

One of my favorite parts of tending bar is clearing up misconceptions about alcohol. The biggest one has to be the old saw about beer before liquor or vice versa. (Answer: It doesn’t matter, except ...

Absinthe, aka “The Green Fairy,” has been the stuff of legends for generations of American cocktail drinkers. The green spirit, purported to be psychoactive and cause hallucinations, was considered ...

There's something romantic about absinthe — that naturally green liquor derived from wormwood and herbs like anise or fennel. Vincent Van Gogh and Oscar Wilde drank it. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and ...

March 5, don’t you know, is National Absinthe Day. Well, that’s the word on the street — the Wormwood Society, devoted to all things absinthe-y, doesn’t say a thing about it. Rimbaud loved it, so that ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI - As one of the best-known craft distilleries in Michigan, the team behind Long Road Distillers understands that working in small batches has its advantages. It allows them to pick ...

FAIRYTALES: “The No. 1 misconception is that it will make you completely trip out," says The Conundrum bartender Jax Hammond of absinthe, a legendary and often misunderstood spirit that's acquired the ...

Thursday is National Absinthe Day — a good time to celebrate the Green Fairy, its legendary nickname. Absinthe is said to have originated in Switzerland in the late 18th century and by the mid-19th ...