In the local bars in my area, it’s popular to mix Jaegermeister and Red Bull–the result is known as a “Jager Bomb.”
There are only two Jaeger drinks worth drinking (beyond shots), IMO:
Take a shot glass full of Jaeger and set it carefully in a cup or glass that has a little width. Fill the area around the Jaeger shot with Red Bull. Slam. Fun ensues.
Killer Bee, Bumble Bee, etc: take a shot glass and fill halfway with Baerenjaeger (Bear Hunter, a really good honey liquor). Carefully add Jaeger until the shotglass is full. A good way to do this is by pouring the Jaeger slowly into the glass over the back of a small spoon. You end up with a layed shot that is yellow and brown, like a bee. Don’t sip.
Jaegermeister was developed as a substitute for absinthe, or so I’ve been told. It does not, contrary to urban legend, contain any deer blood.
Maybe it’s just me, but I can’t stand Jaeger with any kind of fruity flavors except Red Bull.
Zenster, I am pretty familiar with a wide range of Bourbons. Try Woodford Revserve. It’s excellent. Maker’s Mark Gold Seal is also a very good 101 proof Bourbon. My suggestion is to not drink any whiskey, bourbon or not, with the words “Old”, “Ancient”, or “Rare” in the name. Trust me on this. There is, I suppose, a minute possibility that an old ancient rare brew hides somewhere out there that isn’t tainted by the “words of foulness”, but I haven’t seen it.
Better yet, try Woodford Reserve. It’s much better without that extra “v”.
Woodford Reserve also comes in a very groovy flask-shaped bottle, which makes me want to slip it into my pocket. If I had a pocket large enough.
Hey! I just said want!
FTR, we call Jaeger and Red Bull a “Bull Blaster.” This drink masquerades under so many names that I have given up; anytime I have a request for a weird shot, I ask if it’s Jaeger and Red Bull.
9 times out of 10, it is.
We do that around here too
We call it a Bullblaster if it’s an ordinary drink. If someone orders a Jager Bomb, I pour Red Bull in a glass and drop a shot of Jager into it, sort of like a Flaming Dr. Pepper (except you don’t light the shot). They say it’s good, I haven’t tried it yet.
Hopefully people will eventually stop trying to use cutesy names for it and just call it Jaeger and Bull. Imagine the names people would have tried coming up with nowadays for a rum and Coke or a whiskey sour.
Thanks Audrey. Didn’t mean to rush you during this boards’ happy hour.
Please keep an eye out for Vernor’s. It is one of the classic American ginger ales. They give it a healthy dose of vanilla (from what I can tell/taste) to round off the sharp edges. If it is not available in your area, email me and I’ll send you some.
I trust you haven’t heard of Gammel Dansk either. Fear not, it is an extremely obscure bitters, usually known only to people from the old country.
Audrey, do people ever come up to you and say “screw me” when they want to order a screwdriver? (Or “screw me twice” for a double.)
Personally, I think this is utterly hilarious.
I have heard Jaeger and Red Bull called a Jaeger Blaster. At least at Numbers here in Houston. I have tried it, but I don’t like Red Bull (but I like Jaeger… go figure).
Thanks for the recipies. I am gonna try the layered shot this weekend!
Now if only I knew a cool bartender in Houston to make me weird drinks.
A friend of mine was telling me about a martini bar they went to. They drank chocolate martinis. She raved about how neat they looked and how great they tasted. She had no idea what was in them though. So can you tell me how to make one?
Okay…
Pretty much the only drinks I like are Rum and coke and Bourbon and coke.
I hate vodka, but then I think I’ve only tried the harsh cheap stuff.
In general I just don’t like the alcohol flavour.
But at home we have a bar and heaps of ingredients and I love making cocktails… but I’ve only ever had one I’ve liked.
So… do you know of any cocktails that don’t taste like alcohol but still have a bit of a kick? I think you have mentioned a couple but I want more 
Thankyou!
Also, I’m doing a bar course at the moment; we are marked on communication, speed, accuracy, etc etc. Do you have any tips that would impress my instructors. I wanna good mark! 
Zenster, if you walked up to me and said, “Screw me!” I’d probably just give you someone else’s tab, and say, “What? I screwed you! Get over it!”
But no, to answer your question, “Screw me” is not shorthand for a screwdriver, and you’d get some strange looks. And remember, the bartender always wins. 
Ashkicker, there are many ways to make a chocolate martini, but a basic can’t-fail recipe is:
2 oz Stoli Vanil
1/2 oz Godiva chocolate liqueur
Shaken with ice, and then strained into a chilled martini glass and, to be obnoxious, garnished with a Hershey’s Kiss.
A delicious twist is
1 1/2 oz Stoli Vanil (or Absolut Vanilia)
1/2 oz Godiva chocolate liqueur
1/2 oz butterscotch schnapps
Seriously. slurp
You don’t have to use Godiva or Stoli or Absolut, but since a chocolate martini is pure alcohol, there’s nothing to take the bite out of cheaper alternatives.
And the key to any martini is to shake the living shit out of it; if you’re using a metal tin, you should shake it until the tin ices over in your hand. There should be tiny flakes of ice on top of the martini.
And as for you, BlueCurls, I’m not sure what a bar course entails, so I can’t think of any tips to help your grade offhand. (You say “marks,” we say “grade.” :p) A perfect pour never hurts, though, particularly when you’re out of school and behind the bar; people always tip better when I make them my Patented Rocks Margarita, shaken over ice, and then poured into the iced glass, and the liquor stops right at a dime’s window away from the rim. For some reason this looks magical to a lot of people, like, “Wow, how’d you know exactly how much liquor to use? How long have you been doing this?”
And the trick to not tasting any alcohol is to use the good stuff; if you like bourbon and rum, you might like a concoction like:
1 1/2 oz Southern Comfort 101
1 oz pineapple
1 oz OJ
1 oz sweet and sour
Splash of grenadine
This probably has a name, but if it does, I’m not sure what it is; I threw it together for a lady who wanted something sweet with bourbon, and she lost her mind over it. (Do you guys get Southern Comfort Down Under? If you don’t, you could try it with a Canadian bourbon like Crown or VO.)
I also made A Blue Thing last night for these girls that was, astonishingly, not bad at all:
1 oz vodka
1/2 oz Blue Curacao
1/2 oz Amaretto
Fill with sweet and sour
(They wanted something blue, and one of 'em said, “I love Amaretto!” so I kind of went with it. They drank about 15 of 'em, along with other stuff, and on their $165 tab, they tipped me $40 bucks. Yippee. Once you get familiar with liquor, you can invent drinks for various people, based on what they like, and it guarantees you regulars b/c you’re the only one who can make “their drink” for them. Girls in particular love this.)
Does that help at all?
Robgruver, if it’s any consolation, once my fiance stopped bartending I didn’t order anything weird/fun anymore, either. It’s hard for anyone to screw up and Absolut and Seven, so I just kind of stick with that. (Last night I had a yen for White Russians, though, and since I knew the bartender, they were oh-so-tasty. Most people put too much cream, and not enough vodka/Kahlua, but I told him I wanted it “very short” and he came through for me. sluuurrrrp He made $14 off me.)
I know what you’re thinking when you have cheap vodka. Honestly though, like most other spirits of varying brands and prices, you get what you pay for. Example: I’ve had shots of our well tequila and our best top shelf (Patrón). While I barely downed the well shot, the Patrón went down so smoothly, and definitely tasted better.
I can’t guarantee that you’ll like an expensive vodka, because some stuff just doesn’t appeal to some people. However, you’ll never know if you don’t try. A lot of bars periodically (if not often) have specials on either various or all of their top shelf, so at such a time you can try some really good stuff without spending an arm and a leg…and still have enough to tip your bartender.
Oh, and if you’ve only had Skol Vodka, Blue Curls, I can imagine why you said you didn’t like it. It’s terrible. But then again, at a couple of bucks a liter, you can’t expect much.
In particular, I’m partial to the various flavored vodkas. Especially the citrus-flavored one. A really simple drink that I don’t serve nearly enough of, but is easily one of my very favorite drinks, is a Twisted Lemonade. I stole the idea from Chili’s, but changed it a little bit.
1 oz. Citrus Vodka (Skyy Citrus, Absolut Citron, or Smirnoff Citrus Twist all work great)
1/2 oz. Triple Sec
Fill with Sweet & sour and Sprite, and I add a Lemon (or Lime) to make it pretty. 
I’ve also made a couple of variations of this…I can add a dash of Lime Juice (I guess that would make it a Twisted Limeade instead), or sometimes if I’m making it for a girl, I’ll add Grenadine to make a Cherry Lemonade.