Jägerita Recipe
A Margarita with Jägermeister in place of tequila; lime and orange liqueur turn the herbal liqueur surprisingly bright, spiced and tart.
- Category: Popular
- Glass: Martini glass
- ABV: 19%
- Difficulty: Easy
Ingredients
- Jägermeister (German herbal liqueur)60 ml (2 oz)
- Cointreau30 ml (1 oz)
- Fresh lime juice30 ml (1 oz)
- Simple syrup15 ml (0.5 oz)
How to Make It
- Add all ingredients to a shaker with ice.
- Shake hard until well chilled.
- Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
- Garnish with a pineapple wedge on the rim.
Garnish
Pineapple wedge
What it tastes like
The citrus acidity leads, it smells of lemon and lime peel and it has a green, botanical backdrop.
The technique
Shaking. Anything with juice, syrup, egg white or cream gets shaken: the shaker chills the drink and adds roughly 20% water, and that water is what takes the edge off. Twelve to fifteen seconds, until the tin frosts over. Under-shaking leaves the drink harsh because it never got enough dilution.
Glass and ice
The conical martini glass. Made for drinks served without ice — the stem keeps your hand off the bowl and the cone funnels the aroma upward.
Ingredient notes and substitutes
- Cointreau
- The French orange liqueur, 40% alcohol. It is the dry, strong end of triple sec; swap in a cheap triple sec and the drink gets sweeter and loses its backbone.
- Fresh lime juice
- Freshly squeezed lime. Bottled lime tastes cooked and flat; one lime gives about 30 ml. If you have none, half lemon and half grapefruit juice comes closest.
- Simple syrup
- One part sugar to one part water, stirred until it dissolves — no need to boil it. Keeps a month in the fridge. No syrup? Use the same amount of honey, loosened with a little water.
The Story
A bartenders' guilty pleasure that spread through the craft-cocktail world in the 2000s, championed by Portland bartender Jeffrey Morgenthaler.
Frequently asked questions
- How is a Jägerita mixed?
- It is shaken and served in a martini glass.
- How strong is a Jägerita?
- Roughly 19% ABV as served — in fortified-wine territory — plan it as a single drink.
- Can a Jägerita be made without alcohol?
- Simply leaving the spirit out does not work — the body and the bitterness go with it. The 86 alcohol-free recipes in the catalogue are built to hit that balance from the start.
- Is a Jägerita hard to make?
- Easy. No bar kit required — a measure, ice and a jar will do.
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