Navy Grog Potion Experiments

Aloha! Been quite awhile since last I posted ... I'm back!

Anyhoo ... I recently ran across the Torani Spicy Kola Nut syrup and have combined it with the St. Elizabeth's All Spice Dram 3-4 parts Spicy Kola Nut to one part SEAS Dram.

Substituting this for the Trader Vic's Navy Grog concentrate in my recipe makes for a nice change of pace ... and a little zing!

Cheers!

I think the Navy Grog template is one of the best there is for making new drinks - its not as sweet as the Planters Punch or as sour as the Daiquiri formulas.

I've streamlined it (slightly) but what I think of the template as:

1 part 'sour' (lemon or lime)
1 part 'sweetener'
1 part 'other juice' (orange, grapefruit or pineapple)
1 part soda water
2 to 3 parts rum
Some small amounts of spice (eg 1/4)

Using this template, most of my drinks are Navy Grog variants!

It's a combo that doesn't seem able to fail, it has just varying degrees of success.

Here's an example I've been working on:

The Co-Pilot

1 sweetener (1/4 Fees Falernum, 1/4 cinnamon syrup, 1/2 honey mix)
1 lime
1 grapefruit
3 rum (1 gold PR, 1 Appleton VX, 1 Myers)
1 soda water
2 dashes Angostura bitters
9 drops of Pernod

It's a bit of a bite of the Jet Pilot (hence the name) & adding Pernod to a Navy Grog is a bit of a stretch but the rest of the drink fits the template.

That may not have been what you intended but no-one else bit :)

Being in Atlanta, I drink TV's Navy Grog almost weekly.

At home, I have struggled to replicate it but come pretty close with this:

1/2 Sugar Syrup
1/4 Cinnamon Syrup
1/4 Pimento Dram (St. Elizabeth)
1/2 Falernum (Taylors)
1 Grapefruit Juice (I use Publix White Grapefruit)
1/2 Lime Juice
1 Myers Dark Rum
1 El Dorado 8

Sever with the shaken crushed ice.

I will try both recipes, thanks for sharing! Don Beach original Zombie tonight for a bit of a change!

Aloha and okole maluna!

The Blue Kahuna

[ Edited by: The Blue Kahuna 2016-06-19 19:53 ]

All this talk about Zombies tonight... So many are on that same wavelength, it seems. Good strong drink!