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Thursday, April 9, 2009

Food & Drink / Food Chain A cure for Malort face

Posted by Mike Sula on 04.09.09 at 02:00 PM

This week's Omnivorous is all about Chicago's notorious wormwood-based bitter spirit, Jeppson's Malort. I challenged a number of bartenders to create delicious Malort-based cocktails that wouldn't do this to the drinker, and then Jeppson's owner Pat Gabelick and I tasted what they came up with. This particular cocktail, the Hard Sell, by Bar DeVille's Brad Bolt, was Gabelick's favorite.

You can find the recipe for it here, along with seven others by the bartenders who stepped up to the Malort Challenge, with a bonus drink from Brixie's, home of many Malort monstrosities. Further bitter adventures coming soon . . .


The Hard Sell from mike sula on Vimeo.

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Regarding "a cure for Malort face"...after springing Malort on a couple unwitting bar patrons here in KC and witnessing the Malort face's full glory, the barkeep gave them a cup of fresh coffee beans to stick there nose in and inhale deeply. To their surprise (and mine) the coffee scent somehow seemed to help them overcome Malort's characteristically long finish.

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Posted by Aaron Deacon on 04/09/2009 at 5:27 PM

Hi, I just finished writing a comment and it suddenly disappeared in a computer hickup. Did it get sent? Please let me know. Otherwise I will rewrite some words on the pleasures of malort.

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Posted by Anders Benson on 04/10/2009 at 6:36 AM

Ok, it looks like all my thoughts disappeared as they often do. I actually like wormwood. Perhaps being Swedish and being raised on the stuff, drinking it with impassioned exhuberance around an itimate table of close family and friends at special occasions has something to do with it. I find Jagermeister appaling for mixing wormwood with too much sugar, like adding high fructose corn syrup to single malt scotch. I sent a link of this to a couple of Swedish websites fyi. Now I gotta get some Jepsson's--yum yum!

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Posted by Anders Benson on 04/10/2009 at 6:42 AM

I drank some Malort once, and it was better tasting when I vomited it up.

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Posted by wrecksracer on 04/16/2009 at 9:52 PM
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