>>15542685>Buying wormwoodThat stuff is a weed and I'm pretty sure it grows in America too.
As for distillation it isn't hard and experimentation if half the fun of brewing but if you want there exist non-distilled versions. The Polish have a lot recipes for these here the article on Wikipedia for an introduction
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pio%C5%82un%C3%B3wka 