The Sandhills have a “new” invasive weed—absinth wormwood. This weed is on Colorado, North Dakota and South Dakota’s noxious weed list. However, absinth wormwood was absent in Nebraska until a few ...

VAIL, Colorado – Absinth wormwood – or, artemesia absinthium – was originally introduced into North America for its medicinal qualities. This plant is often confused for a native sage and can be found ...

New to the neighborhood, Wormwood introduces itself as an absinthe-focused bar. After greeting me, Ben Marquart busts out a beginner’s lesson on absinthe. He decides Le Frappe is a good place to start ...

A second brand of wormwood absinthe has been approved for U.S. sale (Lucid being the first). Yves Kubler, the fourth-generation distiller of Swiss Absinthe Superieure Kubler, told us he got permission ...

Absinth wormwood joins six other statewide noxious weeds including Canada thistle, hoary cress, leafy spurge, perennial sow thistle, purple loosestrife, and salt cedar. In other action, the commission ...

The ad in High Times for King of Spirits Absinth promises "Authentic Czech Absinthe." But according to La Fée Verte (feeverte.net), there's no such thing. The Web site, named after the "Green Fairy" ...

The Viking guy — red beard, large — opened a plump sack, reached his freckled hand inside, and scooped up a bunch of twigs and yellow-gray flowers. “Do you want to wear a mask?” asked Todd Leopold, ...

When it comes to alcohol shrouded in mystery, it’s pretty tough to top absinthe. This wormwood and anise-flavored herbal spirit was illegal in the US from 1912 until 2007, when it was legalized with ...

The absinthe revival, which has been on the move for more than a decade, just took a leap forward. For years, American aficionados of the banned beverage that inspired such artists as Vincent Van Gogh ...

Marlon Chen may be the finest finger-quoter who has ever lived. Wait. Let’s back-track a bit. “Finger quotes,” the most inherently complicated of all hand-based conversation aides, refers to using one ...