Original and quick Navy Grog recipes? - Tiki Drinks and Food

H Humuhumu Member San Francisco Joined: Aug 22, 2002 Posts: 3691	H Humuhumu Posted posted on Sat, Sep 10, 2005 7:20 PM Well, with an emphasis on "quick" rather than "original"... we swung by the Palo Alto Trader Vic's to stock up on various mixers and thought we'd give the Navy Grog Mix a whirl. This is not the concentrate stuff, this is the basic stuff they sell through the restaurants and website. It's a medium-brown color, not black. We started off with the recipe as stated on the back: 2 oz. of mix & 2 oz. of dark rum (the label calls for Trader Vic's dark rum, we had Myers on hand). It was not a taste sensation. I added 1/4 oz. rock candy syrup and the juice from half a lime, and a big healthy sprig of mint, and then it was actually pretty good. The next round I did 1 oz. of the Myers and 1 oz. of Appleton V/X, but I couldn't tell you if it was an improvement or not. Man, I wish we could find Coruba around here.

Well, with an emphasis on "quick" rather than "original"... we swung by the Palo Alto Trader Vic's to stock up on various mixers and thought we'd give the Navy Grog Mix a whirl. This is not the concentrate stuff, this is the basic stuff they sell through the restaurants and website. It's a medium-brown color, not black. We started off with the recipe as stated on the back: 2 oz. of mix & 2 oz. of dark rum (the label calls for Trader Vic's dark rum, we had Myers on hand). It was not a taste sensation. I added 1/4 oz. rock candy syrup and the juice from half a lime, and a big healthy sprig of mint, and then it was actually pretty good. The next round I did 1 oz. of the Myers and 1 oz. of Appleton V/X, but I couldn't tell you if it was an improvement or not. Man, I wish we could find Coruba around here.

Post #185863 by Humuhumu on Sat, Sep 10, 2005 7:20 PM