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“The green fairy” first twinkled into existence in 1792 in the hands of a French doctor named Pierre Ordinaire. (Yep, his name was basically “Pete Normalguy” but with a better accent). He was looking for a delivery method for wormwood. At the time, people thought wormwood had healing effects. By 1797, Ordinaire sold his recipe to a Swiss father and son team. They eventually moved production to Pontarlier, France in 1805. Absinthe production rose to as high as 400 liters a day over the following decades. Though it was popular among elite imbibers, this was nothing compared to the demand create by the “absinthe fever” that took over mid-century Bohemia. Absinthe in the 19th Century During the 1850’s, many artists and writers turned to this spirited […]
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