I had this drink in the french alps (actually had a lot of it from several different makes) i think i will start brewing some. anyone have any good recipes? i tried the basic 40 sugar 40 leaf liter of 40% for 40 days and it tasted like shit. anyone heard/has/makes a better one?If you have not tried it and get a chance i suggest you do its pretty fucking nice.
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Génépi
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I had to look up Génépi, but it seems it requires flowers of specific plants, not leaves.
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I was thinking along the same lines.Also, as some of the plants are related to wormwood, I'm wondering if Génépi has deleterious effects beyond just the alcohol as dose absinthe.I've never tried it but now I'm curious
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you stick the whole plant in the bottle was what i was told and count by flowers, sorry i posted that late at night and had leaves on my mind for some reason. for the worm wood stuff i had heard that the hallucinations and crap was because of how absynth is made not the wormwood
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The hallucinations are probably a myth, but if you steep wormwood in alcohol you do get a very bitter concoction that contains toxic thujone. To make absinthe this is distilled, which removes most of the thujone.
