Pernod (alcohol)

See also: Pernod (homonymy)

Pernod is oldest of the anisated marks of French, pertaining to the company Pernod of the group Pernod Ricard. Pernod is technically not a Pastis (even if it is often indicated as such) because it contains only very few Réglisse. The liquor owes its taste with the Distillation of plants and not with the Macération, used for the production of pastis. The product is elaborate starting from gasolines of star anise, or Badiane. One extracts from it the anéthode which is then mixed with gasolines of aromatic plants obtained by Distillation, with the number of which the Menthe and the Coriandre.

The current liquor is the heiress of Pernod 45, marketed for the first time in 1938, coinciding with the release of the French legislation again allowing the sale of pastis and similar drinks titrating 45°.

Of 1951 with 1954, Pernod markets a pastis labelled Pernod 51, in reference to its year of birth (the aniseed aperitifs, prohibited on the French market, were again authorized in 1951). In 1954, Pernod 51 is renamed Pastis 51, then quite simply 51.

Since 2005, Pernod markets Pernod with the extracts of plants of wormwood, “spirits anisated” inspired of a receipt which made the success of the Pernod house at the end of the 19th century, benefitting from the end of the prohibition of the wormwood in France. This liquor without sugar with 68° has a rate of Thuyone lower than 10mg/l, answering the French legislative constraints into force.

Pernod is consumed traditionally diluted in water fraiche with ice floes, but can be used as ingredient in different Cocktail S, for example mixed with Vodka, Limonade and syrup of Cassis, or diluted with juice of Canneberge, a very widespread drink in North America.

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