My friend Julie has a complaint about malort, and it’s not that it tastes like sweaty socks wrapped in spoiled grapefruit after marinating in a trash can. It’s that people have started liking it too ...

This town is barely big enough for one malort, let alone two. Do the crazies at Violet Hour care? No, they don't. I tried their newly created R. Franklin's Malort. And I survived to talk about it.

Love it or hate it, Malort will make you a real Chicagoan. This iconic drink is brutally bitter, but also a rite of passage in the Windy City. Some Chicagoans tried shots of Malort for the first time, ...

Jeppson’s Malort, a bitter wormwood liquor that’s simultaneously embraced and reviled by many Chicagoans, has been acquired by the Pilsen-based CH Distillery. Terms of the deal, which closed Sept. 28, ...

Broken Bat will release two limited-edition brews - 163 and Chicago Handshake - aged in ex-Malort barrels in 12-ounce cans this weekend in time for the Brewers-Cubs series. When Broken Bat Brewing’s ...

MCHENRY, Ill. -- More than 300 people RSVP'd on Facebook to attend the "Malort Eggnog Soft Serve Day" at Epic Deli in McHenry, Illinois. Dressed in a Santa suit, co-owner Tyler Wildey said between 20 ...

Another Chicago distillery is using their booze to help fight COVID-19. CH Distillery, which owns the brand Jeppson's Malort, has started making hand sanitizer. Tremaine Atkinson, the CEO and head ...

Love it or hate it, Malort will make you a real Chicagoan. This iconic drink is brutally bitter, but also a rite of passage in the Windy City. Some Chicagoans tried shots of Malort for the first time, ...