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Enough ski talk for this week. I have always espoused the virtues of Jager. My friends would either agree or moan with disgust. True, it is not a drink for the weak and it’s requiredserving temperature of 5 degrees makes it syrup-like and some can’t deal with the medicinal taste.
Whenever I drink Jager I always wake up feeling fantastic and rereshed. Now surely this is something a raging alcoholic would state and I am not there yet but here is some interesting information about Jager I dug up on the net.

Jagermeister, is a alcoholic liqueur that was first made in 1935 in Wolfenbuttel, Germany. The name Jagermeister means “a master-hunter.” That is why Saint Ubert, protector of hunters, is the deer symbol on the label. This drink is a mixture of 56 plants, roots, and fruit peels, that is matured for 12 months.

Jagermeister is a highly sweet 70 proof German liquor supposedly containing minute quantities of deer blood. It is a reddish-brown cordial with a root beer-like flavor, and it is served extremely cold and syrupy.

In Europe it is imbibed primarily because of it’s supposed medicinal value, as an after dinner tonic. There are apparently 56 herbs incorporated into the formula, which was invented in 1935.

On the Actual Logo of the Deer with the cross:

The blazon of the deer on the label is derived from the story of St. Hubertus, a patron saint of huntsmen.
After the death of Hubert’s beautiful wife Floribana, he wandered the forest despondently, hunting deer.
On a Christmas Eve, he received a vision of a stag with a glowing cross betwixt it’s antlers. He renounced his position as Duke of Toulouse and became a priest, eventually ascending to the position of bishop before his death in 727 AD.

The word Jagermeister means Huntmaster, and the text which flows around the label is a traditional
hunter’s prayer:

It is the Hunter’s honor that he protects and preserves his game, hunt sportsmanlike, honors the Creator in his creatures.