Jeppson's Malört

Jeppson's Malört is an American brand of bäsk liqueur, a type of brännvin flavored with anise or wormwood.

In 2018, as its last employee was retiring, the brand and company name were sold to CH Distillery of Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.

[18] In an interview with Gothamist blog Chicagoist, John Hodgman said Jeppson's Malört "tastes like pencil shavings and heartbreak.

[22] In it, actor Jason Sudeikis' character riffs that Malört is like swallowing a burnt condom filled with gasoline.

[22] In a similar vein, Joseph Atkinson, founder of CH Distillery, was introduced to Malört when he first moved to Chicago, and he compared it to "taking a bite out of a grapefruit and then drinking a shot of gasoline".

[24] In 2015, WFMT host and musical comedian Robbie Ellis wrote a song about Malört,[25] which was mentioned in Josh Noel's book about the spirit.

In 2024, a brewpub in Lombard, Illinois offered cicada-infused Malört shots (similar to the proverbial mezcal worm in tequila) with the prominent Chicago area 17-year-periodical insect.