Absinth

Brennerei Staab worked on the recipe for its absinthe for more than a year, helped by old books in which distillers of past centuries left their secret recipes. The result is a blend of wormwood, fennel, anise, hyssop and further ingredients kept in the house, all regional and from organic cultivation. The cylindrical bottle with its pale meadow-green spirit shows the green fairy, la fée verte, locked inside. It tastes pleasantly of fresh fennel with the characteristic note of anise, the bouquet rounded off by wormwood. The distillery serves it the classic way: a sugar cube dipped briefly into the absinthe on a spoon, caramelised over a flame and stirred into the glass, with a little water for anyone who finds it too strong. 55 % vol, 0.5 l.