They host a programme of drawing salons, lectures and tastings that explore the origins and rituals of the alluring elixir. Their passion for the Green Fairy has taken the duo around the world in search of the many unknowns that still remain in the alluring history of Absinthe. In 2019, it was voted the Best Bar in London at the 7th annual Design My Night Awards by a public vote of over 180,000 Londoners, and in 2020, their absinthe menu was shortlisted for Imbibe’s Specialist List of the Year. Together, they have curated the UK’s most extensive list of premium quality, traditional absinthes & curious cocktails to pair. Pablo Picasso, Charles Baudelaire, Oscar Wilde, Émile Zola -the list of famous Absintheurs would inspire anyone to pick up a glass of this tantalising elixir, but what is this “tongue-numbing, brain-warming, idea-changing, liquid alchemy” as described by fellow Absinthe drinker Ernest Hemingway?Ĭollectors, drinks historians & absintheurs - Allison Crawbuck (Brooklyn) & Rhys Everett (London) opened The Absinthe Parlour & Cocktail Bar at the Society in 2016, bringing with them a shared passion for the mysterious world of Absinthe & the macabre. Even the ‘Wickedest Man in the World,’ Aleister Crowley, wrote an ode to “The Green Goddess” while observing its lucid influence upon the patrons of The Old Absinthe House in New Orleans. Pataphysics founder, Alfred Jarry, was perhaps the only Absintheur mad enough to drink his Absinthe neat, being a devout alcoholic who considered water to be a terrible poison. An Absinthe induced vision of 19th century France is forever immortalised in Vincent Van Gogh’s jarring colour juxtapositions and, most famously, in the tale of his self-mutilated ear gifted by the artist to his favourite prostitute. PaulVerlaine & Arthur Rimbaud’s explosive affair, famously fuelled by a shared love for Absinthe, would eventually result in the attempted shooting of his young lover by Verlaine, twice. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec famously meandered the brasseries & brothels of bohemian Paris carrying a hallowed cane, filled with a personal stash of the green spirit. Absinthe - there is no spirit so notoriously favoured by the rebellious minds of art & literature.
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