Redheaded Sl*t

Jägermeister, peach schnapps, and cranberry — the 1934 Wolfenbüttel digestif combined more coherently than the 1980s provocative name suggests.

The Redheaded Sl*t is a sweet, fruit-forward novelty cocktail combining Jägermeister herbal liqueur, peach schnapps, and cranberry juice that became a standard order at American casual bars and college venues from the 1990s onward. Its provocative name places it in the category of suggestively titled shots and cocktails that proliferated in American bar culture from the mid-1980s — the Slippery Nipple, Blow Job, Sex on the Beach, and numerous others — whose commercial success demonstrated that memorable, outrageous names drove repeat ordering through social humor and the mild embarrassment of requesting them by name. The drink appears in both shot and long-drink format, with the long version served over ice in a tall glass. Jägermeister's specific contribution — the 56-herb German digestif created in Wolfenbüttel in 1934 — provides herbal bitterness and anise-spice complexity that the peach schnapps's sweetness moderates significantly, while cranberry juice's tart acidity provides the structural balance. The three-way flavor combination of bitter herb, sweet peach, and tart cranberry is considerably more coherent than the drink's novelty framing suggests, and it is consistently cited as one of the more genuinely balanced drinks in the provocative-shot genre despite its reputation for shock value over substance.