A shot of Jägermeister drops into a pint of cold energy drink, and the dark herbal liqueur surges up through the caffeinated fizz in a sweet, foaming rush. Licorice and bitter root meet the energy drink's candied, sugary tang, and the whole glass is built to be knocked back in one go rather than sipped.
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Pour the chilled energy drink (typically Red Bull) into a pint glass, filling it partway.
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Pour the Jägermeister into a separate shot glass.
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Drop the shot glass of Jägermeister into the pint glass of energy drink just before drinking.
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Consume immediately while it fizzes, in one go.
Its beginnings are hazy — the usual account puts it around 1997, perhaps somewhere in Northern California, just as Red Bull was arriving in American bars, and no single inventor has ever been documented. The idea itself was older: dropping a shot into a glass of beer was the boilermaker habit, and earlier versions of the Jägermeister drop went into beer before energy drink took its place. Through the 2000s it settled into bar and nightclub culture as a standard order, chosen for momentum more than nuance.