What Exactly Is Jägermeister?
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Published 2023-08-20
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This is one of the mysterious bottles in my grandparents' kitchen that 8-year-old me sniffed and tasted. I didn't immediately hate this one. I learned to hate it about 15 years later.
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In America, Jäger is known as a wild party drink. In Germany, Jäger is what your grandmother drinks after dinner for digestion, and honestly it's weirdly sweet. My grandmother prefers Underberg.
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I'm a Brit living in Germany, and the way the locals put it is that this really did used to be something you'd only find in your nan's liquor cabinet and it was only through crazy-good marketing that it became the mainstay of all bars in the 21st century. It's nice to see a video that elaborated on the rich history of this liquor.
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Interesting to learn the re-branding started in the US. In Germany, up to the early 90s, Jägermeister had the image of a "grandpa drink". But suddenly it was marketet on parties, especially techno parties, everywhere, completely changing the brands image. Fun fact: The mix of Red Bull and Jägermeister is mostly called "Flying Hirsch" (Hirsch = stag) in Germany.
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I still like Jägermeister as long as it's ice-cold. My father-in-law, a hunter, actually was a regional Jägermeister in Austria for a few years and still teaches hunting classes. Before that, I never realized Jägermeister was more than a drink.
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My mom worked for Sidney Frank. He paid for my college and my parents house they still live in. Gave me my first job out of college. He was a crazy interesting and generous business genius that changed my life forever. Awesome coming across this video and seeing him.
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It is unfortunate that a lot of people don't keep this in the freezer. It becomes a far superior drink when it is freezing. It thickens up which might sound gross, but it still goes down the same way. The taste though somehow gets altered and the black licorice gets mellowed out.
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Can confirm. Never had a hangover from jager. Full glass cured stomach virus pain for 10 hours.
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I was born in Wolfenbüttel, the home of Jägermeister. Since childhood days, I can remember a bottle of Jägermeister in our house. It was used as medicine but also a drink for any occasion. We left Germany 1955 and I lived in various african countries, but one thing ties me to my home country for ever....a bottle of Jägermeister, PROST.
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Jägermeister with chocolate milk is literally just liquid gingerbread that you could get any non-drinker completely wasted on because it loses all of its sting and alcoholic bite. In Germany it's referred to as "Hamburger Kielwasser" ("Hamburg Wake Water")
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I started drinking since my teenage, got addicted to alcohol. Spent my whole life fighting alcohol addiction. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Alcohol addiction actually destroyed my life. Not until my wife recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 8 years totally clean. Never thought I would be saying this about mushrooms.
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I first had Jagermeister in Thule, Greenland, in 1977 when I was a sailor on a U.S. Coast Guard Icebreaker, the Westwind. We'd get blasted and when the bar closed at 2 AM, we'd go hiking because it was still fully daylight. Good times.
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I love the taste, I'm apparently the only person in the US who just sips on it for fun.
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It's not just a drink, it's cultural heritage.
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this video was 1000x better than I thought it would be. Great work guys!
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73 and still drinking Jager ...we all drink them as chasers when we are having a night out at the pub with my sons ....I have been looked at in disbelief drinking it at my age but I think its a great drink
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This is wild. The green bottle being hard to break is very true. A friend threw a bottle off a third story it hit a stop sign and skipped down the road. Bottle was unfazed. Yager and pepsi takes like barqs rootbeer.
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Its been about 20 years since my college days but i still keep a bottle of Jäger in my freezer. Whiskey is my preferred mixer, but sometimes its nice to get a lighter morning buzz going with Jäger and pineapple juice and go mow the lawn or something 😂
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I'm a hunter. We have lot's of different boozes on shoots and driven hunts. But the Jägermeister is the one you want to have when you are ankle deep in mud, in the pissing rain, or been sitting for a couple of hours in the snow on a windy mountain side.. It warms you right to the core.
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I had my first shot of Jaeger a few years ago in my mid 20s at a foreign bar while working overseas. The bar owner was an elderly Australian gent, loved to mingle with his patrons. He would occasionally invite those at the counter to free shots when in a good mood and that was when I had my first Jaeger. As someone who doesn't like shots of most liquors, I was pleasantly surprised by Jaeger and have appreciated it since. 👍
