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[edit] What is it distilled from?

What is the carb/sugar source that jaeger is distilled from? --Battlehamster 08:33, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

the loose translation captures more of the essence of the poem - jm 05:25, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

I've removed a modification to the preparation section of a list of ingredients with no citation. "Jägermeister's recipe is made up of olive oil,vinegar,black licorice extract and a secret liquer." If the contributor can back that up with a credible reference, please reinstate. --RobAtSGH (talk) 18:12, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Criticism rather than contribution

This is a terrible article. (ChaosEmerald)

Why don't you fix it? BabuBhatt 23:45, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
  • In the "Jägermeister in popular culture" part, somebody pretend that "In Long Hard Road Out of Hell, Marilyn Manson makes several references to drinking Jägermeister", I looked closely at the lyrics of the song and I didn't see what could make us assume that. Are there here some Marilyn Manson fans that could confirm that we should delete this pseudo-reference? (Kodamarazi) 15:10 12 June 2007

I believe the reference was to Marilyn's autobiography of the same name, not the song. --24.227.68.114 20:07, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Remedies for future vandalism

It looks like the last round of vandalism had been fixed, but it's getting annoying. I've had to fix some vandalism myself, like lame comments about how Jägermeister is made. How about making it so that only regeistered users can edit this page... or are the vandals registered users? Elwin Blaine Coldiron 16:18, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of mixed drinks

Does this section really help the quality of the article? Mixology guides elsewhere would have this type of information, but this being well outside of my realm of expertise I would rather consult other opinions before removing them. skrshawk ( Talk | Contribs ) 05:20, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

  • Go ahead and remove or better, transwiki them. I think wiki(cook)books would be a good place to store that info. bbx 07:45, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Did some looking into this and it seems like their glossary of mixed drinks is having some trouble with attribution when it comes to the transwiki process; this is probably above my skill. Might want to get some help with this (I'm pretty new with this). As the list is not seriously detracting from the quality of the article I would say leave it until it can be properly moved or a larger consensus reached about deleting it outright. skrshawk ( Talk | Contribs ) 16:08, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Since there has been no further discussion I am removing the drink list. If there is a desire to move its contents to Wikibooks I have archived them to Talk:Jägermeister/Drink List, however if that doesn't happen soon I will put a note up to have the page deleted (I'm archiving it since no consensus was reached and it's a fairly significant edit). skrshawk ( Talk | Contribs ) 21:57, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Sorry. I hadn't been following this discussion until now. Wiki(cook)books is probably not the best place, but rather [[[b:Bartending]], which deals with alcoholic beverages. I'm not sure about the transwikiing and the attribution process though. Here at the English Wikipedia, there are some Jägermeister related drinks mentioned in Beer mix, List of cocktails, and Mixed drink shooters and drink shots. It might make sense to reintroduce a few of the previously listed drinks back into the article and link to them from the drink lists. Then again, it might not. I have not clue how notable any Jägermeister drinks are. Naturally, I am familiar with Jägermeister, but not any drinks made using it. If anyone has some suggestions as to which are keep-worthy, which are questionable, and which are totally pointless, I'd appreciate the input. And I'm not just talking here in this article, but also in the three lists I mentioned. Thanks! --Willscrlt 00:10, 8 January 2007 (UTC) WikiProject Cocktails
  • The list was really approaching cruft, and like you, I have no way of knowing which ones are standard in the bartender's repetoire. I feel better leaving that aspect to those more educated and researched than I, but it was clear to me that this was out of control and nobody had yet spoke up. Hopefully this will get some attention that will get the useful information extracted from that list. skrshawk ( Talk | Contribs ) 03:49, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
Popular culture for Jägermeister mixed drinks probably accounts for 85 percent of the traffic to this page. It would be sort of ironic if info on the very reason people come to this page was deleted JayKeaton 10:20, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
There should at least be a mention of the Jagerbomb (Jager and Red Bull) on this page Timan123 07:13, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
The bit on the Jaegerbomb mentions "sculling". I don't know what that means, but the link points to the rowing-related meaning of sculling and should be revised. Adking80 19:06, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Temperature Conversions

Article stated that on tap Jagermeister is usually served at 4F. That would make it -15C, which I doubt is correct.

4F is the correct temperature for serving jagermeister per the official Jagermeister website. I also found it on a bartending website which I just lost the link for.

It is very correct. Several German advertising campaigns state "Jägermeister at -18°C" - which means: deep-freeze, because -18° is the temperature common in Germany have. And frankly, it tastes best at this temperature. Krisko1974 19:34, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalized again

I'm not familiar with the history of this article -- I was looking it up for information, not as an expert or author -- but it appears to have been vandalized again. The line about having NO deer's blood now says it HAS deer's blood, which is almost certainly not right. I don't know if anything else was changed. Probably needs to be locked, since from reading other comments this has been a recurring problem.71.91.114.31 05:32, 15 March 2007 (UTC)Michael

Can anyone give a website saying explicitly that it has or has not got deer's blood? I've got a lot of mixed reports from bar-staff that I talk to. Perhaps the blood is exclusive to some countries rather than other?Adam9876 18:24, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

I've heard the stag's blood as well. I'm not sure if it's exclusive to Germany or if it was how it used to be made or if it's true or not. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.144.177.39 (talk) 14:48, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] spell

how does an englishspeaker spell it? jager or jäger or anything else?

Jägermeister is the most correct spelling. In transliteration of German, "ä" becomes "ae" so Jaegermeister would be correct as well. Many English-speakers just use Jagermeister, though. —Signed, your friendly neighborhood MessedRocker. 01:23, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Jägermeister in popular culture removal

I think the popular culture part of the page is getting too big for its own good as it is the same size as the article itself, as I have noticed recently that such list on various pages are getting purged, shall we do the same. Also there is a bit within the article where it has been mentioned for its association with rock music. Willirennen 18:13, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ideally Served?

I found this:-
"On tap, the drink is ideally served at -18°C[citation needed]" in the summary; it seems a bit chilly to me!
On the other hand, I found this:-
"Egri Bikavér should be served at 16-18°C. [citation needed]" on another page, so I'm assuming that's what the author meant.
Moonraker12 11:57, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Now someone has edited this with the comment:-
"(The temperature is suppose to be a negative number, the way it was shown made it look positive.)".
It was meant to look positive, because the comment on the other page is positive: I don't know what the right temperature is, but I'm pretty sure it won't be 18 below freezing. On the other hand 16 to 18 C does seem a bit warm. I've changed it back because I thought plus 16 to 18 was more likely to be what was there originally. Does anyone actually know how you are supposed to serve this? Moonraker12 15:03, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
Well according to the Jägermeister site it should be stored in the freezer (look for the mix tips section). I also see that there are some Jägermeister machines that keep it between -12C and -15C. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 03:48, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
You’re right, I’m the dupe of a coincidence. This article, up till 9th October gave the serving temperature as 4F (-15.5C), and there is a discussion further up this page (which I missed) about serving it below freezing.
I had been following the link to Hungarian wine (via Unicum) and found the article on Bull’s Blood, (Egri Bikaver) which, apparently, is served warm (40-44F). Hence my previous comments
I’ve restored this page to the original 4F statement; Sorry about the confusion . Moonraker12 08:07, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
Never mind. I didn't see the above discussion either. I only edited this page because of a disambiguation I was working on. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 11:32, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
Now I'm thinking about it, there was a drink called Metz which was supposed to be served so cold it would give you "judders"; it had a seriously scary advert, featuring the Judderman to emphasize the point. But I don't know what temperature that actually was. Moonraker12 12:06, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
Has anyone heard anything or would know more info about a certain urban legend concerning this drink. Deer Blood at one point was an ingredient? or that it's mixed with it in some weird ritual ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.45.250.139 (talk) 06:51, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] St Hubert or St Eustace

The article currently says the label is a reference to St Hubert. Is there a source for this? Has Jagermeister said anything about this? Looks like it could be either. 130.88.140.10 (talk) 12:24, 29 February 2008 (UTC)