Appearance: Translucent mahogany.
Aroma: Sweet herbs, licorice, squill candy, anise, toffee.
Flavour: Sweet herbal entry, a warming medicinal quality. Lots of licorice root extract, senega, anise, sweet mint, citrus peel, and a caramel background. The palate remains sweet throughout and the texture is pleasant but not rich.
This is, amazingly, the first time I've ever tasted Jägermeister, and I have to say it does not deserve the negative press it sometimes receives. If there is unfortunate baggage here, it's due entirely to the liqueur being misused.
This is a fine herbal/root extract liqueur with a very sweet character. It does bear a striking resemblance to cough mixture, which might account for some folks' immediate aversion to it. There is a classic old cough remedy that used to be listed in the British Pharmacopeia (sadly it's not anymore) called "Mist. Senega & Ammon. BP" that contains extract of senega root, licorice root, benzoic acid, ammonium bicarbonate, camphor and tincture of creosote.
Jägermeister tastes and smells very similar to that medicine, although there are clearly more herbs in its palate. Jägermeister is also not quite as compelling as most of the Italian amari or herbal liqueurs, but it definitely has character and deserves neat tasting.
Tasted from a 50ml miniature. I enjoyed it but probably wouldn't buy a whole bottle.
"Good" : 83/100 (3.5 stars)
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@1901 haha at least it’s a sweet gag I hope ;)
@1901 yeah...we all have been there
@1901 +1. Evidence of a misspent youth, no doubt
Nice review. Some baggage here - through misuse years ago I still gag at the smell of this and Sambuca.
I keep a bottle of Jagermeister in the freezer (as it suggests), and mix it in equal parts with Disaronno. This is Fall dessert.
@cascode Year, I think you've got it pretty well there. I get this sort of metallic cola taste partway through, that kind of spoils it for me.
@ContemplativeFox I went through a fast sequence of impressions tasting this. Initially I though "hey, it's actually pretty nice", then "hmm, but sweet", "very sweet", "and medicinal", "maybe not as nice as I first thought" and finally "yeah, OK, it's not horible but one tasting glass was enough thanks".
Very interesting that it's your first time trying this. I suspect that like a few others around here, such as Cuervo Gold, this gets a worse reputation than it deserves because it brings on bad flashbacks of college parties for many. That said, it still certainly isn't great.
@Jan-Case Local situations are very different, aren't they? I get the feeling this is something quite familiar to people in the US, particularly from college, but it was unknown over here. We never did Jäger-bombs in high school or at uni and as far as I'm aware it's still pretty much unknown. Just not part of our culture.
@cascode nice review. I have never seen Jäger as something relevant reviewing because I grew up with it since it is the local go-to “Schnaps” here. It is omnipresent here and one of the only few alcoholic beverages I have ever drank (me being a non-drinker up hi to I started the whole whisky thing about two years ago). I will have to have a look at it again sometimes and try to approach it from a different angle but to what I remember liking it for was that is wasn’t too sweet as all the other herbal liquors and actually quite savory. As you said - a bid like medicine, but the main usage for it here is as a digestive anyway.