Weird History Food is getting some shot glasses ready for The History of Jägermeister. Originally from the German town, Wolfenbüttel, Jagermeister has seen a lot of variations in its history. Jager started as a vinegar, but since then has become every college student's go-to shot of choice. Get some Red Bull handy, if that's your thing, and drop into this video on Jagermeister. Cheers
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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.
I'm pretty sure you'd get a "correct" jägerbomb if you ordered one in a club in Berlin (sufficient concentration of Americans). But yes, it's not a party drink in Germany.
@ its starting to grow as a party drink in Germany too :)
@ I went to many parties in Germany where they drank Jägermeister shots or mixed with Fanta and some other stuff sometimes.
Nice to know
@ What? I´ve never killed more brain cells in my life than with Jäger-Red Bull. It´s definitly a party drink but perhaps there are regional differences.
I've always thought of Jagermeister as a medicine and best served when you have a cold. It just tastes better than cough syrup. Cough, cough...I think I need a Jagermeister.
The idea of Jagermeister as medicine kinda makes sense with all those herbals in it. Tons of good healing herbs mixed in a yummy liqueur sounds great.
I kinda see it as a kind of tincture that is coincidentally good to be mixed into a cocktail haha.
It taste like nyquil so yeah
Jägermeister ist für den Magen um besser zu verdauen mit 56 Kräutern. Aber wenn man genug davon trinkt hilft es bestimmt auch bei einer Erkältung 😂😂😂
It certainly doesn't taste any better lol.
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.
The Germans are more likely to drink 'checky cola'
Why would you live in Germany if your a brit?
@@ChickenArad1 a better question is why on earth would you live in Britain if you had the option of living in Germany? I live in Berlin and it’s amazing. You can live here in such freedom and everything is super inexpensive - especially in comparison to London which is where I’m from.
@@vice.nor.virtue Good Answer. Most Germans think EVERYTHING out there is better as Germany.
@@ChickenArad1 To escape this Brexit-saddled Hellhole?
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.
@@RetroJack lol and everyone else will claim the negatives come from the US too but this drink has zero medicinal benefit. That started elsewhere. We also used to claim heroin was non addictive and medicinal and over the counter. And that didn't start in the US lol
So now Jager is seen as a party drink in Germany as well?
Jagr Bombs here
Flying Hirsch and Jäger Cola (You can guess that one) are my favorite ways to drink Jägermeister.
@@nwerd7584i think it deworms on some level....
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.
As with the rest of America.....
I'm curious, what happened to make you hate it? For me it was a wild party that I ended up dancing on tables in short shorts, and waking up the next day dead AF with the worst hangover of my life,
Was no one keeping an eye on you when you were 8?
NYQUIL 🤢
Lmfao
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.
still have a bottle in the freezer, and I stopped drinking years back. it has other uses.
Well, they do make coolers specifically for storing Yager. Sounds like a merchandising opportunity.
@@mmercier0921 This is good for setting up your alkaline/Insulin/acid balance with good bacteria from buttermilk, sour kraut, yogurt, etc to tame your carb cravings. Fried pork rinds with Tobasco and beer are a healthy snack with this included en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gammel_Dansk
@@mmercier0921like what?
Jäegermeister doesn’t mean Buckmaster. It means master Hunter.
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.
I work at a popular night time bar, im in college still but I work as much as I can. At the bar we keep this freezing cold and its pretty good. Not delicious but bearable. When my friends pull this out the closet at room temp I refuse to drink it now😂
Why would you want to mellow the black licorice?
@@chankarchandraI don't know but lowering the temperature reduces flavour and aroma release (or take-in by the human body, not sure). I prefer the thicker consistency as it becomes a bit syrupy, works great to lubricate the throat. Jägermeister sells dispensers which are essentially freezing the drink. Jägermeister also suggests serving it at -18 degrees Celsius as is accentuates the complex flavour. I think what they are essentially saying is that freezing the drink gives it a more rounded flavour. Mellowing out the black licorice brings up a lot of other flavours. In the Netherlands we have multiple licorice-liquers and usually I don't like them, Jägermeister stands out because it is so much more. I think it is literally one of my favourite spirits.
yep as long as its cold I can down a red beer cup full without gagging once and enjoying it more than a little
I drink it warm
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.
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.
interesting, my mother was born in Wolfenbuettel too, and her father lived in Africa!
How old are u lol
I know it has herbs and tastes like medicine, but I didn't think anybody actually used it as medicine. It's only been around since the 1930's, so it's not like it has some long medicinal history or whatever.
@@stephenbrand5661 i mean, tons of people used to use alcohol as "medicine" against pain etc. maybe the medicinal taste (a little like the german "hustenbonbon") made it seem like that
@@dejnorfthegreat1227 72 years....Why?🌞
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")
Hmmm....wonder if it would mix well with Hot Chocolate. A hot Gingerbread drink, served with nutmeg and whipped cream.....😊 LOL it's gonna be a great Christmas...
interesting im gonna have to try that
@@guguigugu take my word for it, it will change your entire outlook on Jäger 🥴🥴
@@Cordovan im european so i already like jaeger
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this video was 1000x better than I thought it would be. Great work guys!
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
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.
who’s that
He hook you up or give you the in in getting to know, hook up with, or get married/date any of the Jägerettes? LmMFaO! ;) :P :o)
Cool, thanks for sharing.
Your mom did a good job 👏
Dam talk about being privileged and fortunate frrr. Genuinely jealous ngl
I love the taste, I'm apparently the only person in the US who just sips on it for fun.
Same, although I also love the taste of anise and licorice. I'll drink things like Moxie Soda because I actually like it. Along those lines, Moxie was so reviled by my girlfriend that she made me drink it on the porch. Merely mentioning Jäger would make her turn turn as green as the bottle. Anyway my point is that we're like a superminority of beverage enjoyers. Now I'm wondering what a Moxie and Jäger drink would taste like. 🤔
@jaymzx0 have you ever had Pastis? Pernod you may like.
I despise the flavor of anise, but I love Jäegermeister!
There’s a few of us
@@butterfacemcgillicutty I live in a country where I can't find jagermeister but is it anything like pastis? pastis is kind of bearable in a few shots but it would be vile to drink a whole bottle
Can confirm. Never had a hangover from jager. Full glass cured stomach virus pain for 10 hours.
Discovered it in the early '70's while stationed W. Germany. Smuggled a bottle when I rotated back stateside. Still have the bottle. Wasn't available in the Pacific NW back then. Going to look for it for nostalgia's sake . . . and medicinal purposes. ;-)
It's not just a drink, it's cultural heritage.
Right up there with home-made poke-and-stick tattoos, missing teeth, and getting your sister "preggert".
@@alexcarter8807Hey buddy, you've never seen my sister. She's purdy.
"It's not just a drink, it's cultural heritage." It is not even a hundred years old and all it has going for it is great marketing. Hardly anything culture defining. It is just a far-far worse version of Unicum.
@norten76 My mans, I ain't drinkin' nuthin called "Uni-cum."
A lot like absinthe
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 😂
@@harrysatchel I've heard it called a few different things, I call it an Electric Screwdriver.
Mowing the lawn pissed?....I like your style.
@@gulfstream7235ahhh a man of culture lol
@@gulfstream7235How else do you expect to figure out that shifting from reverse to forward high without stopping the riding mower will make it do a wheelie?
@@harrysatchela jager with pineapple
Baton Rouge, LA resident here. I read about Jager in some magazine around 1983 and purchased a 5th from the only store in BR that carried it, The Wine and Cheese Shop on Jefferson Hwy near gov't st. I became an instant legend with my firends after I smuggled it into The Bayou on chimes street near LSU...and now you know the rest of the story.
RIP PAUL HARVEY!
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. 👍
I worked as a bartender at a French restaurant in the early 1980's. The older European Maître d' laughed when I told him about how Jagermeister was gaining popularity with college kids. He said that growing up, everyone he knew had a bottle "for medicinal purposes" and that sometimes the same bottle would last for years. He thought that the new life the brand found through marketing to the young was brilliant.
Ordered some in Germany and the waiter gave us that look. Its usually taken as a digestive and I wish the US would have more of that.
@@tomifost the reason it doesnt is because it doesn't work in that way, and they refuse to have it tested on that level and have the full ingredients and ratios be public. Its no different than people drink Miracle Mineral Solution.. Using oils etc.. Its pseudoscience. In fact cooking those botanicals remove any sort of benefit they may have had and kept the taste. For awhile Kratom became a trendy thing but it can be proven medicinal, and more people use it to get high than for wellness.. Just like the cope of disguising catching a buzz as anything other than what it is. If you have it everyday you still become an alcoholic and eventually your body will freak out without it.. to which proves to those rubes that its medicinal, rather than an addiction. I hate this historical cope related to medicine.. We didn't know shit prior to 200 ish years ago. Heroin was sold pre loaded in syringes over the counter for ailments, as well as opium and straight up poppy seeds. They serve no medical benefit besides masking pain. Like liquor.
In Brazil it's also wild to think of it as a party drink, since it's about 4 or 5 times more expensive than a decent vodka. In France the price ratio is more comparable and I've seen it in parties, but not much
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.
That is interesting!
I work at a warehouse that supplies liquor in my state and I was there for over a year before the first case of Jager fell off a pallet and broke. The herbal smell was very unpleasant as it was getting mopped up.
@sea-envy3137 Oh I would imagine so. Wow a whole year, not bad. Jager in bodily expulsion form is very unpleasant as well.
Perhaps, German craftsmanship?
@@armlovesmetal1036 garantiert,dafür steh ich mit meinem namen.
I started on it during my second army tour in Germany. I heard of the stomach-smoothing quality so I started every evening with a shot and another at the end of the session. When I came home I quit the practice, it was a lot harder to find in 1968.
For me as a Person from "Braunschweig" i feel honored that our BTSV (Braunschweiger Turn- und Sportverein) was a part in this video an in the history. Love it
There's also the Jaegermaster "Winterkreuter" (which means "winter spices"). It's made with more spices than regular Jaeger and it's made to be used as a warm/hot drink, like putting it into coffee or especially tea. It is sold only in Austria and Germany though
I remember that one; haven't seen it the last years, though. Definitely tastes like something from a Christmas Market, and I really liked it. However, I am one of those savages who stretches his booze with water to prevent getting drunk; I am drinking for the taste, not for the intoxication. I really think they should sell it not only again, but overseas as well. :) P.S.: Wasn't it "Winterkr_Ä_uter", or does my memory betray me? ;)
@@thespectator1243 I do absolutely agree about stretching booze. About the spelling of Winterkräuter: in German, words containing a letter with the dieresis can either be spelled with it or without but adding an "e" after the letter (therefore Winterkräuter and Winterkraeuter are both correct, but I realized just now that I spelled it without an a, my bad)
@@lorenzo1361 What do you mean, "my bad"? o_0 Wasn't bad at all - I was just confused. ;) (Yes, I know what the phrase "my bad" means; I just don't think making a spelling error makes one bad. ^^ ) Cheers! :D
@@thespectator1243 it's just that I studied German for 8 years and now i made quite a stupid mistake 😂
@@lorenzo1361 Don't sweat it. I try to speak English for the last 30+ years, and without autocorrect my texts would be unreadable. ;) Have they taught you the great German saying (and it is an actual saying here, I heard it before being taught English in school): "Deutsche Sprache - schwere Sprache." ? Failures are part of learning, nay of living! I'd say they even accelerate learning. ;) Even Germans misspell words every now an then. You've picked a hard language to learn. The most English I learned by watching episodes of series (like Futurama) first in German, and then directly afterwards in English. I think it really helped. However, since American English and British English are sometimes quite different, one can argue how good my English is. ^^ Good luck! :D
I had one of those jager tap machines for about ten years until it finally gave up. The memories will last … actually they are all pretty fuzzy.
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.
I'm one of the few people in my circle who like Jaegermeister. The taste is definitely not something many people would immediately love, but I'm part of the other people. I usually hit a shot inbetween beers to "spice things up", both literally and figuratively.
Jager is probably my favorite liquor
I asked an old German guy once what jagermeister was and he told me that it was an old German stomach remedy. He said his mom would give it to him before bed if he had a bad stomach. But it was only something anyone ever sipped in small amounts like cough syrup.
Interestingly enough, the product for colicky babies called "gripe water" is just 90% grain alcohol.
The main ingredient is Anise, there are several alcoholic drinks that have anise and people use it to help digestion.
You forgot the Christmas version that has less alcohol & adds vanilla & cinnamon to the original flavors
I bet that’s good.
@@Nurseakeem it is.
Wow is this still a thing they release currently? That sounds great.
@@putoutmyfirewithgasoline1877 yes it is. At least in the USA & the Caribbean. I put a link for you but KZhead removed the comment for violating rules lmfao
In Europe it would be considered weird to have LESS alcohol for Christmas... 🤔
It's interesting that many countries have similar versions of this drink, Becherovka in Czechia, Dämenovka in Slovakia, Hungarian Unicum and many others. All of them are supposed to be drank as digestif or less common as aperitif. Drinking them too much and too fast makes you hate them for the rest of your life :)
I think that each country in Europe have a moltitude of these bitter digestives, full of herbs and spices. Here in Italy they called "amaro" and there are tens, some are more famous and industrial while some are more locally made and bond to a specific region or city. Montenegro, Vecchio Amaro del Capo, Cynar, Braulio, Fernet Branca, Averna, Ramazzotti and many many more. Personally, Unicum and Jager are the ones that I don't really like
I don't know how I ended up here, but I love it! Highly entertaining and great editing! I'll never understand the fuzz about Jägermeister (although I totally digged their racing cars in the 70s): if you want to get hammered, why not drink something tasty? At least you're used to the taste when retroperistalsis kicks in - before/after's kinda the same :)
You should do an episode of “Fernet Branca”. It has quite some history in the Italy, US and Argentina. Dig into it!
Yesssss
Can you do anything with it other than mixing with coca cola? It's like a steak that only tastes good if you add ketchup.
@@4.0.4 really? You don’t know anything about mixing drinks…or even what Fernet is…
In Europe we drink fernet shots. It’s an acquired taste, but it’s the only liquor that never gives me a hangover. Guess that’s why it’s a bartender favorite. @@4.0.4
@@4.0.4 It's not supposed to be drinked like Coca-cola.
I'm 49, and to this day I cannot drink this. Memories of my 21st birthday still haunt me.
Got a cold? Drink Jägermeister! Got the bends? Drink Jägermeister! Got Jager sickness? Drink Jägermeister! Got drunk? Drink Jägermeister!
Same! Blackout drunk and sick as a dog!
I think it's the overly sweet makeup that does that. Almost how Fireball is. Just a very rich sweet drink. I love it, but will not drink it all night....noo no
Same lol I'll still drink it tho
I’m the same way with southern comfort and wild turkey. The smell of either of those makes me wanna barf decades after getting wasted on them.
My old boss was Austrian and she suggested sipping a shot to help settle my upset stomach. Worked perfectly and sipping slowly didnt seem to affect me as much as taking it as a normal shot. Her father used to drink it before he would clean his kills after a hunt.
Ah happy memories. I'm now in my 60's and effectively retired, but back In my 50's I returned to university (twice), in a short-lived attempt to start a new career. Part of the university social scene at the time involved copious consumption of Jager-bombs. I have to confess I used to quite enjoy them - as someone who generally didn't drink much there was something quite special about the simultaneous hit of caffeine and alcohol, leading one to be both slightly wired and weirdly disinhibited at the same time. I think this cocktail probably did more to help me keep up with my twenty something year old friends than just about anything else. As I say happy memories.
Jager is one of my few favorites. I love everything about it - the flavor, the bottle, the heritage, the world appeal. Thank you Curt Mast and Sidney Frank!
I’m the opposite, I’d rather eat week old sushi off of Amber Heard’s bed sheets than take another shot of Jager! 🤮
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The fun fact is, even so, it's just one of those products that looks old-timey while being a fairly recent industrial product with an all made-up history.
For the past 30 years every time I go skiing I carry a flask in my inside pocket full of Jager. Nothing breaks the ice better than Jager while going up on a lift with other people! I have a sip out of my flask, I offer a sip to riders on the lift chair…. So many new friends, so many memories!👍
That is a good idea! Easy to conceal, hard to put down!
Why not carry a hip flask of it at all times!?
I started doing shots of "Jägermeister" with my classmates at a few old fashioned local "Bars" & "Taverns" in Chicago in 1981. I had no idea that it was so New in the United States. One of these taverns was "Laschet's" on Irving Park in the heart of Chicago's old German neighborhood, which at its height after World War One stretched a good 6 miles north to south and 4 miles east to west, boasting half a dozen German language newspapers and almost 100 German restaurants, taverns, dance halls, social clubs, bakeries, butcher shops, holistic pharmacies, and grocery stores (all of them German). I grew up at the south end of this area, and had been drinking various Schnapps for years. One was called "Barenmeister", a precursor to "Jägermeister".
My mother was an Austrian orphan raised in Germany during ww2. My family, being from Germany, drank Jager all the time. I also drank rumpleminz peppermint schnapps. They mix together well.
Man.....this drink pretty much represented my early to mid 20s. When I decided I wanted to start drinking, my friend and I didnt like the taste of beer and my friend came up with a glorious idea. Why slowly drink a beer, with little alcohol content, that we dont like the taste of...when we can just take shots of a liquor, with more alcohol content, that we may only taste for a few seconds? Genius I know. Jager became my drink of choice. My first shot, first time I got drunk, and the preferred drink of choice that I would bring with me to parties. Just so happen that Jager started to become very popular during that time and the Jagerbomb became massive. Those days are well behind me but every time I walk into a liquor store or see the Jager tap machine...brings back a lot of fun memories. Cheers Jagermeister!!
U obviously never tried a true helles vom faß . A white beer u drink from tap. It’s mostly common in Bavaria Germany. I don’t know where u are from, but if you still don’t like beer and you have the chance to drink let’s say an Augustiner from tap, it will be a live changing experience trust me, cheers from Germany
@@malte7229 I do like beer now, only took a couple years in my mid 20s. Thanks for the recommendation, I'll definitely try it out!!
You sound like a pussy 😂
In 1981, Jagermeister was for before and after dinner at The Heidelberg in the "Yorkville" neighborhood on the Upper East Side of Manhattan (The Old Germantown).
I always heard that it contained so many herbs because it was created by accident. He accidentally mixed various batches together but then when he tasted it, he liked it.
As an avid Jäger enjoyer this was a very interesting video. Thank you!
It was once available in convenience stores until the government found out that it was actually booze
In the US? Because you can buy alcohol in any convenience store in most countries around the world
@@marvinvogtdeeven in the U.S. it varies by state
If this is true, that's hilarious.
@@mate53 It probably isn't. Don't believe everything you read on the Internet -- Abraham Lincoln.
I found an interesting recipe using Jagermeister a while back. 0.35 L Jagermeister 8 oz honey 1 shot Cinnamon Schnapps Mix Schnapps and honey...then add Jager until it acquires a syrup-like consistency. Bottle and chill in freezer for 2 hours before serving. What does this make? Apparently, this is how you make a concoction similar to the Cardassian liquor known as Kanar.
Guess it takes a bit of getting used to? :D
Oh and what brand of cinnamon schnaps pls`?
@@rumbatumblajambomambo6241 No clue. The source I got this recipe from didn’t specify the brand.
I have a recipe too. 4 oz. Ice cold jagermeister.......
@@rumbatumblajambomambo6241gold schlagger
I rarely drink, and Jagermeister has been one of my go-tos. It's been years since I mixed it with eggnog, which gives it a smooth rich taste. I couldn't convince my family try, as I found they prefer any other alcohol. And I learned it's best not to drink the bottle with cartons over the holiday season alone, as the addiction can start to pick up and the flavor can get tiring.
I only had Jägermeister once or twice during college. I still drink it at parties because I actually like it and because it doesn't seem to have any negative effect to my stomach. Most people say it's “too strong” but I chug it shot after shot.
Ugh... I used to love Jager. I used to just drink it by itself. Until one night I drank a whole fifth and made a fool out of myself. For a long time it disgusted me, but I'd like to give it a try again. Its been 15 years since I've had it.
The last time I got REALLY drunk was the night I was picked up by an officer while walking on the side of the road in 20 degree temps in Minnesota...I was walking out of a small town headed east with no jacket on at 1am, and when he asked me where I was headed and if I needed a ride I said I was going to Montana...at least that's the story he told me when I woke up in the drunk tank the next morning and he gave me a ride home, because the last thing I remember was eating pizza in my apartment while listening to music...
One of those things you can drink if it's so cold you can't taste it.
Keep it this way for another 15 years & and stay healthy. 🥝 As simple as that.
They LGBTQ woke bro don’t do it
Just remember the 3rd time is a charm😂
I seriously appreciate you pronouncing German correctly. You got my like and sub just for that. Das gefällt mir sehr
I like how he determined what bottle to use. I did not know that one. Thats science at its finest. =)
Thanks for the history lesson very informative.
Thank you for this history lesson. I'm a big fan of Jäger and discovered the Manifest edition last year. It is a true gem clearly targetted at a finer palet.
Try this one, too. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gammel_Dansk I'm an expat in Sweden and it is good.
I have got to nab a bottle of the Manifest Edition!
I said it tasted like cough syrup, and all my buddies were almost insulted. Still tastes like cough syrup to me, lol...
Definitely a few medicinal notes!
I never did like the taste of it.
Yes. Vicks Formula 44. No longer made, because it WORKED!
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In Toronto, we were able to buy small bottles at the variety store, that practice changed in the 80’s.
If you like Jägermeister, you should try some Italian *amari* ("Vecchio amaro del capo" is probably the most popular). It's basically the same type of herbal liqueurs but they have a wide range of flavors simply because a lot of brands produce their own. It's more of a stand-alone digestive and I've never seen it mixed with energy drink, although they put some in after lunch coffee for a "caffè corretto".
That reminds me a bit of Averna, that stuff was and probably still is pretty popular here in Germany. Saluti, vicini! ☺
I was working at a trade show years ago and I fell sick. I hurt all over, the show was in a nice hotel with a bar and they had Jagemeister. My wife tended the show while I went back and forth to the bar drinking that brew until I was feeling no pain. That was my first and last experience with it.
A few fellow NCOs and I had to memorize that poem once on a marksmanship trainer course, everytime we got it wrong, we had to drink another Jäger. Let's say it's a core memory now.
I was addicted to this.
I like this kind of history and it's interesting to know about it. I personally quite like Jägermeister quite a lot and because I live in the Netherlands which is a small country next to the west side of Germany this drink is probably really popular here like lot's of German things. But personally I also like to drink some similar drinks made in the Netherlands. We have a few of this kind of herbal liquors here that are a little more mild and I like it
I used to love Jagerbombs!! It worked great one time on a nasty headache I had that nothing else worked to ger rid of it. I had just one Jagerbomb and minutes later my headache was gone! And no I didn't keep drinking and give myself another headache....
Actually works amazing for digestion, heartburn, upset stomach. It's my go to.
Try Underberg. Comes in teeny bottles right for 1 serving, and expressly made for those things.
@@alexcarter8807Yes by numbing the organs! :)
The same shit without alkohol would work 100% better. So just drink some tea...
@@alexcarter8807 Originally, this was created expressly for those things as well! But I'll definitely try Underberg, thank you for the suggestion
I suppose there are different versions of the uboot in Germany as well. My cousin always put 2cl into a Hefeweizen and called it "Dirty". There was a 4cl version called "Ugly". Really goes well with banany and clovery German Hefeweizen
Great video! Thanks for making it. I wonder if it actually works helping get rid of colds?
Jägermeister and Captain Crunch. Nicotine and The Brady Bunch. Im building a boat out of pudding cups. Welcome to my World.
Is this a grocery list? Or some generic rap lol
@@T0asty- This is a song by the band Nerf Header. It is called Welcome to my World.
@@T0asty-hahaha sounds like a grocery list but sadly is a song
ShavedBeaver's whittier
Jäegermeister tamed me in a ground cellar bar in Munich after dinner at the Hofbräuhaus. The next morning, while my wife and brother-in-law are breakfast, I staggered to get the car. I made it to the gutter in front of our hostel before collapsing with convulsive vomiting. While I continued vomiting and swearing, a kind business fräulein asked (in English by the way), "Are you OK?" I said, thank you, yes... I got the cat and my brother-in-law drove us to Neuschwanstein Castle. In the parking lot, I vomited my Tylenol out the window. We boarded a tour bus and I stood by the door, just in case. We toured the castle and I laid down on every floor in every room... We exited and I bought 4 bottles of Perrier, drank all four and vomited a geyser of water and other fluids in front of a screaming child (accidentally...)! Thus went the taming of Maxaldojo by Jäegermeister!
Got a hangover? Drink Jägermeister!
@@Euripides_Panz A little 'hair of the stag'.
What a pretentious jackass
Now that's a party...
Plot-twist: This man was going through heroin withdrawal
I have a jager collection from the puking deer pourer to many styles og shot glassesto ice shot molds and beer pong cups and much more ...just from years of buying the holiday gift boxes
excellent content, very well put togeather. Subbed.
Growing up in a household with German influences (both of my parents are) we had this in the house. It had a weird, but unique taste to me. However, I don't like the taste of beer and most alcoholic drinks, but every black moon, I have a Diet Coke with Kualua. With lime and cherries.
Growing up close to the German border; nobody here drinks it. We drink plenty of local herbal bitters with actual history, but barely ever Jagermeister.
@@MtJochem "Actual history" Ah yes, the classic case of "If the brewery isn't over 500 years old, it's not historical" Euro mindset.
@@MtJochem I'm on Kalmarsund and this is our choice en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gammel_Dansk
Diet coke with kalua gotta taste like dumpster juice smells.
@@grenadier6483 I grew up in Germany (Army brat lol), my German mom always has a bottle of Jager in the house. Some people just hate anything mainstream/well known, they need something more obscure to make themselves feel special. That being said, I wouldn't put too much stock in to what the Euros think, after all... they think six hours in the car is a long drive.
Oh goodness my mind just went to so many bad decisions I made in college thanks to jäger lol
I started drinking the stuff in the mid 80's. I had a cousin at Tulane then. A few beers and a few shots of Jager. I came to many times on the front lawn.
I started drinking Jaegermeister because all the heavy metal bands I liked would always hold it in pictures. It’s one of those drinks that tastes less good the more you drink.
Tastes like licorice and Robitussin had a baby. And I love it.
Jager is probably my favorite liquor to drink straight. This was a great little run down of its history!
It's one of those things that either you really like, or you hate it. I really like Jager. The hubbie and I would have this as one of our go-to shots when hitting the bars.
This history reminded me of a time years ago. I was part of the British army based in Wolfenbuttel in the late 80's One Saturday afternoon, I told the barman I was feeling a bit off, so I refused his offer of a beer, he reached under the bar and got me a mini bottle wrapped in brown paper, and told me to sling it down in one go. After about 10 minutes, It worked and I did have the beer. fun note down the road in Braunschweig, we also had a tab in one of the bars and used to play the Knock the nail into a piece of wood with a straight flat claw side of the hammer, if you lost, you had to pay your tab if you won, the bar owner would write it off. fun times.
Never got into the college drinking scene so I didn't run into this stuff until I was in my mid 20's. I used it to de-stress after bad days at work and started to slide into being an alcoholic so I quit that job and got a better one and stopped drinking anything alcoholic for about a decade. Now instead of Jager I turn to bourbon instead on the rare occasion I drink anything.
Thank you so much 4 that heartwarming story as it brings tears to my eyes.😊
Jagermeister where I live (Poland) is often seen as a something to help you digest food and is drunk like that, in some bars it is found in some drinks like you mentioned Jagerbomb but it is not often drunk since it's seen as a something to help digest things, for drinking other alcohols are used.
Back in the 80s a guy with some relatives in Germany used to bring Jager over and then sell it by shots as a upset tommy medicine :)
Many years ago, my mates and I blended up some Jager with crushed ice and Zima; it tasted like a root beer slushee from what I can remember.
In Germany Jägermeister is not yet so much of a party drink as it is in the US. However it is getting more and more popular as such, especially in combination with Red Bull, called „Flying Hirsch“ (flying stag).
This is a great video both for the copy and the narration. Humorous, interesting and consistent. I'm not even too interested in the topic to watch a video this long, But it kept me right to the end.
Back in the early 2000s and me being from Austria was quite shocked about the college drinking culture in the US because Jägermeister back then was probably the most uncool drink imaginable associated with old man depressive hanging around in small dusty bars and smelling funny in central Europe 🤣
Interestingly I'm from Austria as well and when I was studying in Vienna from 2019 to 2022 it was very common to enjoy every now and then. Gotta be quite the same now!
I remember when I first tasted Jagermeister, I instantly said to myself "tastes like cough syrup" lol
And Absinthe. = NyQuil.
oh baby! i can feel myself starting to get CRAZY at just the sight of a jager bottle
beyond crazy. DELIRIOUS
Growing up right next to Wolfenbüttel and Braunschweig, Jägermeister was omnipresent my whole life and just a "normal thing". Still blows my mind to this day that it's such a big name around the world ^^
Can confirm I probably kept its New Zealand sales propped up through the early 00s!
While I don't really drink Jägermeister, I recall it being pretty palatable. Also, I swear it does work as medicine for some ailments. Some years ago I had something wrong with my stomach, perhaps food poisoning or something that made it hurt a lot. Dad brought me some Jägermeister in a brownish bottle and told me to drink some. It eased the pain and soon enough I was right as rain.
Should have brought you some Underberg instead. Much better and more alcohol...
No doubt all the herbs in it. Licorice, for instance, increases mucus production in the stomach, which can soothe the stomach lining. It also raises blood flow to the stomach which can help healing, so I imagine it's nice for ulcers in particular
I was in a Jagermeister sponsored band from 2005-2009 based out of the Mid Atlantic US. It was the time of my life. Won't trade the those years for anything. Ah that taste !
Although the drink has the reputation as frat house booze, Jägermeister (especially the cold brew one) is fantastic when used as intended. Hunting! On cold mornings it really warms you up with a nice energy boost!
Aside from your excellent comedic timing, the other reason WHF should NEVER consider a different narrator...is that our dude can pronounce the German names and words pretty well! I am not saying that only German language is of particular importance, but I take it to mean that somebody bothered to ask: "how do I say this strange foreign thing before I make an entire YT video about it"? This is a (very German) commitment to quality!
He even knows that the German w sounds like the English v and not the English w (It originally sounded like the English, but that hasn't been the case since the 1400s or so).
Jagermeister is amazing with big red soda fyi, tastes like a bubblegum
@@nickdisney3D yeah Big Red Cream Soda
i liked jager back in my drinking days, cause it was the only thing i could drink warm and right outta the bottle.. hated beer.. started out with red bull and all that lol, but soon it was just the jager.. glad those days are behind me.
In the early 90's in a bar on the Mississippi River there was a machine that dispensed Jagermeister through hoses embedded with lights. Above the tank containing the drink was a large stuffed buck complete with horns and eyes that stared coldly at the unfortunate patron willing to drink the insufferable concoction.
Ken Follett approves. Magnificent evaluation. 🤓
I put some in the freezer and it turned out pretty good. I had no idea temperature would change the flavor so much. It is hard to explain. Like some flavor in the middle went away when it was freezer temperature.
I hear u
Yes it's not as syrupy. And it mellows.
He smashed all the bottles on the floor😂. The land of thinkers and poets I love being German American
and Nazis
If it looks stupid but works, it ain’t stupid
Most people wouldn't even have that much thought process "just buy whatever is cheapest."
Great video. That was so interesting.
I love Jaeger. its definitely a good way to age yourself at the bar when you order a jaegerbomb. I usually keep a bottle in my freezer for emergencies. Love to drink it with root beer.
My drink of choice from the late 90's through til 2010 was what I called a Grease Monkey...equal parts Jagermeister and Barq's root beer...got blackout drunk on that mixture too many times to count...as I got older I just stopped drinking altogether, but I have a fond lack of memories from my nights with the Grease Monkey...
Mine in my teens was Jager and Dr Pepper. I don't drink anymore 😅
We in Iowa, call those Root Downs
The Jägerbomb was likely invented in Germany too. There it is called a U-boot (submarine). Must have been around since WW2, at least. It is often connected to very big beer glasses (2 liters), formed like a boot - Stiefel (Stiefel is boot in German). You order a Jäger shot together with the beer and just sink it into the beer glass. It does not even have to be a Jäger shot, any Schnaps will do (but there are regional variants!). And no, Schnaps is not an insult to an alcoholic beverage, it is very often highly appreciated. I drank U-boot in the 90´ies (in Germany) and it was known there since long. No matter what some Germans claims, you don´t drink it for the taste. :)
Germans don't drink it for the taste, they drink it to settle an upset stomach. Were I come from (Northern Germany) the Bierstiefel is a communal drinking game: You drink from it and pass it to your right. If while you drink air gurgles into the tip of the boot or if the person you passed it to finishes it you have to pay for the refill.
You guys have glass cowboy boots, don't you? When I was in Seoul, South Korea in the Itaewon district, I loved those great German bars serving military and English teachers. One guy sitting next to me got a boot of German beer, tipped it up and keep drinking. Another guy next to me, said, 'Is there a time limit on that thing?' It was so funny and hilarious. Some 10 years ago and I think that's so cute and funny. We don't have fun bars like that in the USA. I don't enjoy living in my country.
@@TUBESPECIFIC1 I think the glasses look more like a WW2 German military boot, but there could be other variants too. No matter what, they are huge (2 liters)! We have a wide range of different bars here, the funny ones tends to be the "old dirty local bars". Go there often and get to know the regulars, then it will be fun. There is also this old tradition that people really go to bars (or coffee houses). Back in the days, most apartments had poor heating, so people went there to get warm - and of course, gossip away. There is also a drinking game around these big glasses, usually played by younger folks. The glass get passed along the table, and the first one that drinks so the toe gets filled with air has to pay the next round.
@@jokervienna6433 Heck yea! I remember the old days of going to nice bars and bistros and dance my ass off in discotechs, finding I love trance and still listen to trance every day, when I was in Germany for 3 years during the 1990's which was super fun, illuminating, and awesome. I used to go out to small military bar in Kirchgoens not far from Butzbach and Giessen on weeknights to have a few hefeweizens and I actually met a cool dude from Freidberg Ober-Rosbach, Ralph, that I consider the best friend I ever had, but missed Ralph all the last 20 years for he disappeared. Ralph used to take me lots of places in his tiny little car which was such an awesome experience of Deutschland and mainland Europe. I went to garden parties where they rent small lots that have a shed and grill. He took me out to so many cool bars, castles, restaurants, and many neat places. We had so much fun, it was the time of my life. I went back to America in 1999, but he refused to use email telling me US government is watching and not to be trusted and I go, no conspiracy like for America is wonderful, and got mad that I wouldn't move over to Germany for I wanted to do that, but it wasn't economically and culturally feasible for one need to sprechen sie Deutsch fluently to get the work visa, job, and be richy executive to obtain blue card residency so I visited Germany and Europe 3 more times in the 2000's with Easter 2011 my last time which was so wonderful for it was warm, sunny, and gorgeous with flowers blooming and everything so green and lush. Yea, there are a few variants of your 2 liter boot. LOL I wanna go again, but broke and then so sketched out about the geopolitical, economy, crazy nonsense, danger of assault and death, and war. Germany and all of Europe, except Bosnia, was very safe, nice, and fun though I know it's changing as is the USA. I don't get to do anything in America today except stay home and watch KZhead. No not because of restrictions, but because it's dangerous, hostile, and doesn't have a culture that I relate with and feel safe and enjoy. America is going to fall and we're in big trouble yet most of us didn't cause the quagmire. I did my job in Bosnia and Germany as a US military cook feeding my combat troopers. I used to think NATO was a good thing to unite the world, but as you already know, it's not a good thing. Yes, Ralph was right about the conspiracy theory for Edward Snowden revealed it all in 2014 and you know about Joe Biden and the Democrats working on destroying America to make the new world order. I don't have a country. Iche muste eine weizenbier, bitte.
@@jessicab4870 Yep I've heard of it. Do you live in the states too? My favorite of all time is cognac, but too expensive to drink today.
I have a bottle of this in my freezer. I think I'm taking it out tonight, along with one of my shot glasses!
Props to you, the pronouciation of these many German words was actually very good