How to Finish Filtering Absinthe

Video Transcript

"Hi my name's Allen for Expert Village, and today I'm going to discuss the controversial and banned alcohol, commonly known as Absinthe. So that micron filter is actually included in your Green Devil kit. I'm sure a lot of the other kits come with it, too. I'm just not positive about that. I just know this kit definitely does. So it looks like that, and what you have to do is take it out of the bag. We are going to soak it for about ten minutes. So as you can see, it goes right in the cold water; push it down, and that activates all the microns and the charcoal, and pretty much everything that is in this, to make this filter work. Ok so ten minutes have elapsed right now, and we're ready to actually use the micron filter. To do this, you're going to want another container to put the alcohol in to, and you're also going to want some type of funnel. Now I have a food funnel, which I actually picked up just at the local Dollar Tree, and it looks like an oil funnel, but it is made for food. So you can keep it in the kitchen and use it for other things like sifting. The other thing I picked up was this smaller container. Pretty much the same size like this, just a little smaller. The liquid should fit in this. It looks about the same amount to go from here to here. Even though this is smaller, that should be fine. We are pretty much ready to go. I'm going to take this, put it right in to there, and then we're going to take the micron filter, which has been sitting for ten minutes. Just let it drain out a little bit. I'm going to put it right down there in to the hole. Just squeeze it in place. There we go, and that's pretty much it. We're going to have to do this a couple times, about two to three times. I'm going to go ahead, pour this again after washing this container out. We're going to go right back in to here. We're going to do this a second time. We're going to start this, and obviously it's the same way. Make sure the filter is still in place. This is the last of the Absinthe on the third time of filtering it out with the micron filter in here. So just go ahead and finish this off as you see the beautiful green color. Maybe just one last time I'll run it through. I'm going to do a fourth time. Like I said it can't hurt anything, so why the hell not. That's the whole filtration process, so we do have it back in our original container, and pretty much we're ready to move on to the bottling stage."