r/malort

I'm a NorCal/Bay Area boy. I've never seen Malort in the wild. I am in a Louisville pizzeria doing a 5 day bourbon tour. I see Malort behind the bar. Tried to get my boss to have one with me. He says he's had it before and will not have one, so I go solo.

I've never heard a positive thing about it. I expected the worst. Old head at the bar said "fermented garbage."

The bar's consensus is that there is something wrong with me, BECAUSE:

I didn't hate it. It tasted, to me, like chewing on grapefruit peels. I will, probably, only ever drink it again in a social situation and won't seek it out or order it, BUT, it's not the worst thing I've ever tasted.