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Originally Posted by Libertine
Eh, that's essentially what I said. Companies trying to cash in on the popularity added toxic ingredients like copper as colorants, in order to produce something that looked similar.
The quality distillers who had already been making it didn't, of course.
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They didn't add copper, it was contamination from the radiator that bootleggers were brewing it in. They coined the condition "absinthism" when they saw the copper flecks showing up in people's eye's, but it was just from bad brewing conditions. They didn't realize for another 20 or so years what the effect of ingesting copper manifested as.