Two marketers gave the Chicago Handshake its bitter modern recipe

Boing Boing tells the story of how two marketers transformed the Chicago Handshake from bad to worse. In the nineteen-nineties, the shot combined Jägermeister with beer. Today's version swaps the Jäger for Jeppson's Malört served with Old Style beer—a change that, by the author's account, made it far more disgusting.

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