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it's not an arguement of the "real " stuff being green or blue. The basic difference is that the blue stuff is the high end type. There is a woman I know that goes to Europe several times a year just to get absinte and bring it back. She knows a ton about the stuff and has even written a book on it. She told me that the difference ( between the colors ) is the stuff that is used to make it and the way it is made.
For example. Bad vodka is made with grain and is not filtered that much. Good vodka is made with potatos and is filtered a lot. there is a huge difference between them, but they are still both vodkas.
Green absinthe is made with the certian rough herbs and not filtered much ( hence the green color ) if you add water or sugar and water it will louche, or turn a more cloudy off white and greenish yellow color. When made it is a light green color that is almost olive drab and sometimes still has the herbs in the bottom of the bottle.
blue absinthe uses slightly different, more refined herbs and is more heavily filtered which gives it a the more blueish color.
there are other colors as well. The spanish absinthes tend to be more red and brown and there are even some eastern european absinthes that are yellow in color.
they are all absinthes, just different types of absinthes. Look at rum. How many different colors or rum are there when you look close? there are many shades but they are all still rum.
the ones that are bright green ( or bright blue, yellow, red etc.) have had color added to them to make them more appealing to the eye though but that didn't happen until the mid 1850's when it was begining to be mass produced because of a french grape shortage that caused wine prices to skyrocket and the people were looking for something to replace it with.
just my 2 cents on the subject
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