Weblogs: The history of absinthe

Accidental Hedonist - The History of Absinthe: "The golden age of Absinthe can be considered to occur between 1870 and 1900.

Initially, ettiquette required that a person was to have only one drink of Absinthe a day. To have more than one was seen as a bit of a faux pas. But when absinthe jumped from the middle class to the working class, women, and then the Bohemians, all claims to absinthe ettiquette were ignored and then forgotten. When the Aesthetic/Decadence movement adopted the drink as the liquor of choice, public opinion against the drink began to change. As many of the writers associated with the Aesthetic/Decadence movement were influenced by the Gothic period of the early 19th century, many present day 'goths' have also adopted the drink and helped revive absinthe's popularity."