This Wednesday the Rosebud is pleased to present the debut of the Green Fairy Night, a new weekly night featuring absinthe. Join your bartender William (of Legion Within) as he guides you on a flight with the Green Fairy that can finally take off again after a long ban in the US.
Absinthe is a wormwood-based liquor with an anise flavor that was historically favored by Parisian bohemians and writers, philosophers, and artists like Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, Vincent van Gogh, Oscar Wilde, Aleister Crowley, and Edgar Allan Poe.
Absinthe's exaggerated reputation as a hallucinogen and its association with the underground caused the temperance movement to ban it in the US. Recently, the ban has been lifted, allowing several European brands to be imported, and US commercial distillation to resume.
The Rosebud is one of the few bars in Seattle that carries absinthe, and one of the only places to feature specialty nights celebrating it. Taste the history of the Green Fairy presented to you in either the traditional French pour ritual or the more modern Czech flame ritual, or featured in one of the specialty cocktails, such as Ernest Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon.
Come on down and dance with the Green Fairy tonight!
GREEN FAIRY NIGHT
@ ROSEBUD BAR AND RESTAURANT
EVERY WEDNESDAY
9PM-CLOSE
719 E PIKE
