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On 2015-01-13 07:21, mikehooker wrote:
Made a Navy Grog last night with fresh squeezed white gf and it was exponentially better than the previous one with bottled 100% juice. The flavor did not dominate or bitter the drink. And the more I drank and as the ice cone gave some dilution, the more I really enjoyed it and got excited about playing around with different rums in the future like I do with Mai Tai's. I used the standard Don recipe with honey mix and soda water using Cruzan, V/X, and ED 12 as my white, dark and demerara.
Not to throw this topic way off course, but in reading the various threads about Navy Grogs on TC it seems most people prefer the TV version with allspice instead of honey, with no soda water and only two rums. Or some amalgamation of the two (just adding allspice to the DtB recipe?). Yet the reviews on Grogalizer all seem to be for the Don recipe and are overwhelmingly positive. So what makes the best Navy Grog?
Ok, that's a total derailment.
The navy grog I make is:
3/4 oz lime jucie
3/4 oz grapefruit juice
1 heavy handed dash grapefruit bitters, per the advice of this thread
1.5 oz 1:1 honey mix
1 oz white spanish-style rum (I know the standard is puerto rican rum or virgin islands rum, but there are so damn many brands of dry, light rums that get filtered after aging that I can't stand not to try them)
1 oz jamaican gold rum (or a similarly funky, pot-stilled rum)
1 oz demerara rum(I almost always use el dorado 8 year)
1/4 oz allspice dram(I make my own according to the recipe on seriouseats)
Shaken with ice for 10 seconds and strained into a glass with an ice cone in it.
I really like it, but I'll be the first to admit that I'm no sommelier and that I'm pretty easy to please.
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