Ladyfist Absynthe (2024)

The modern Ladyfist brand was actually launched in 2015 by a collective of mixologists and graphic novelists in Portland, Oregon. While the "found recipe" story is likely apocryphal, the liquid inside the bottle is authentic. The distillers spent three years reverse-engineering 19th-century chemical profiles to create a thujone level (approximately 45 mg/kg) that is legal in the EU and USA, yet potent enough to satisfy purists.

The rain over the Vieux Carré was the kind that didn’t so much fall as seep—into the cobblestones, the rotting window frames, the very marrow of a late March night. You could smell the Mississippi, thick and brown as old regret, and underneath it, something else. Wormwood. ladyfist absynthe

She called herself Ladyfist.

Ladyfist releases one small-batch variant per year: The modern Ladyfist brand was actually launched in