Besk: The Bitter Taste of Some of Chicago's Best Bartenders
By Jude Stewart
WHAT DOES BESK — AND its locally infamous variant, Jeppson’s Malört — taste like? Intensely bitter. Resinous. Stubbornly long-lasting on the palate. A Swedish wormwood spirit popular in Chicago but largely unknown outside of it, Malört’s power to cure dyspepsia feels needlessly potent: what, are you preparing your stomach to d…