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2 oz Jeppson's Malort

4 oz Charged yuzu lemonade

If the lemonade doesn't kill you, the Malort will make you wish you had been predisposed to heart failure.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I see you also saw this meme

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I hadn't actually. I saw one about mixing it with vodka to make "five loko" and from there....

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

You made chiloko instead

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Something something the bean.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

🤣🤣🤣

I was actually making a Chicago joke, but you made it so much better!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Fuck it, I'm down.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)

interesting, "malört" is perfect swedish for wormwood

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

It's a Swedish emigrant that started making it, I'm pretty sure from the descriptions of it that it's a bäsk

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

It is wormwood liqueur so that makes sense

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I believe that's where the name comes from. There's probably some wormwood in there, as well as 99 other plants with very strong and unique flavors.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

LoL that is fricking hilarious. Great terrible drink there

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Lol i had no idea what Malort is when I see this post. After some googling, the title fits really really well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That name, OMG.

I can't even begin to imagine how this tastes. Maybe sake for the next round?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Remember highschool biology classes where they had jars of random dead animals? They get malort from the juice in those jars.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I had a bartender challenge me to a shot of Malort a couple weeks ago and honestly I don't get the hype, it just tastes like a unsweetened Jager.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I mean, it's a herbal bitter, where jager is a sweetened herbal bitter, makes sense.

Many people have a strong reaction to strongly bitter tastes, especially younger people. I dont know if i'm "learning to appreciate complex tastes" with age, or if my taste buds are just getting less sensitive :D but i kinda like bitters nowadays.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Well I'm in my mid 20s so maybe I'm just predisposed. People also seem to like my cooking so maybe you've got a point with the complex tastes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

A splash of topo and I’m in

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I like fernets, cynar, absinthe and other herbal liquors. If you like those things, malort is fine. Malort gets a bad wrap for being a lot worse than it actually is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I love chartreuse. I think it makes no impact on how gross malort is because it is pretty awful. It's such a rotten flavor.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I'm acquiring those tastes but a taste of malort and you definitely think "I don't want to acquire a taste for that".