“He said [it] tasted like that junk drawer that everybody has in their kitchen, and that just seemed so insane to me,” Mechling said. The idea that a drink could be so off-putting seemed improbable, but as soon as Mechling tasted it, he knew the description wasn’t an exaggeration.

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    1 year ago

    It tastes like gasoline, but it surprisingly has some value in cocktails. “The Alderman” cocktail bar in Pilsen does a fascinating “grapefruit” cocktail that doesn’t have grapefruit, but rather uses malort to replicate the grapefruit bitterness.