What does absinthe taste like, if anything? Experiences?!
What does absinthe taste like, if anything? Experiences?
Answers: Aniseed
If you want to know exactly what it tastes like, ask for a glass of Pernod pastis at your local bar. You need to add about 4-6 times as some water to it. It will turn cloudy greenish white.
Pastis was the wormwood free replacement produced after France made absinthe illegal. Source(s):
see my profile I think it tastes like black licorice but worse, if you can imagine. Personally I don't care for it. Despite popular opinion, due mostly to erroneous assumptions about wormwood, absinthe, when properly distilled, is not extremely
bitter.
Wormwood, whose extract used to be a popular ingredient in many perfumes, actually has a strong floral & herbal flavor (and scent) that
is heightened when extracted by proper distillation, which leaves behind almost all of the bitter absinthins. So yes, there is some
necessary bitterness in good absinthe, but it is a balanced herbal undertone, and not overpowering in the slightest. Nor should the anise
overwhelm, as it sometimes does particularly when badiane rather than green anise is used.
A good absinthe should be cool and refreshing, with a complex herbal and floral character reminiscent of an Alpine meadow, and with no
one herb predominating on the nose or palette herby licorice