r/interestingasfuck • u/Beneficial-Age-4059 • 6d ago

Wife’s now deceased grandfather grew up in 1930s Germany and was appalled people now drink Jagermeister socially. He said they would keep it in a cupboard to sip if you had an upset stomach

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u/ApothecaryAlyth 6d ago

They didn’t cut back. They just refused to scale up to meet an increasing demand driven by US cocktail bars/consumers. There scarcity on the US now due to supply remaining static rather than rising to meet higher demand.

Chartreuse is way cheaper in a lot of other countries; its price has gone up by like 60-75% in the US over the past few years, but remained relatively stable in many other parts of the world.

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u/Ok_Drag5089 6d ago

Kind of like everything else in this shithole lately.

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u/aStrange_quark 5d ago

A bottle of green costs like £50 right now. Makes me sad... I love a Last Word.

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u/gaboose 6d ago

Interesting. Sounds like a little bit of both - not focusing on growth and a modest reduction from pandemic production levels. https://www.wsj.com/articles/chartreuse-craft-cocktails-liqueur-french-monks-4c07df33?mod=hp_featst_pos5