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Hi. My name is Allen for Expert Village and today I'm going to discuss a controversial
and banned alcohol commonly known as absinthe. Absinthe was invented in the late seventeen
hundreds and it quickly became Europe's or one of Europe's most popular drinks. Now it
was being produced in France and also Switzerland by a couple of different individuals and it
actually became a very, very big and popular drink in France. Now the people enjoy it because
of its psychoactive and hallucinogenic properties to it, mostly due to the wormwood content
which was being produced and is one of the main ingredients in the absinthe. And this
was very big for many years and then once the European prohibition rolled around, pretty
much because of this, people were getting addicted to or so they were being said addicted
to absinthe. Pretty much with this prohibition in Europe rolling around, the makers and the
brewers of the absinthe pretty much put it to the side and said okay let's not do this
anymore. And it's been many years and you could find it here and there in many European
countries, but it was not big like it once was when it was first invented. Now being
a couple of hundred years later, it's starting to regain some much needed drive, I guess
and people really want to consume what was once invented back in the late seventeen hundreds.
Now it's a really, really great drink. But again with the psycho active things, we might
run into some of the same problems. Now of course the brewing process and the distillation
process is a little bit different than it was back then. Maybe a little bit cleaner
things like that, but you still have those certain chemicals in it.