Who here has ever had grog?

[MrScorpio]

Do you like it? I don't know it...can't imagine anyone that has had it, except for those old assed pirates in the history books.

[KG]

1. considering how crappy most food was throughout history, it might notve seemed too bad by comparison

[merh]

2. I've had a boiler maker, that's sorta like grog

and I love spiced rum, which is a variation of a grog.

[nemo137]

3. Isn't grog just water, rum, lime and sugar?

My friends and I found a recipe for it and tried it with overproof rum. It dilutes the burn just enough that I do not remember much of that evening.

[enlightenment]

4. It's not bad . . .

kind of like a daiquiri without the ice.

[Schema Thing]

5. It's a tea brewed from Valerian, right?

if it taste like it smells, it has to taste horrible.

[Demoiselle]

6. I've had Glogg...

Made it, actually. The Swedish killer winter drink...red wine, red port, aquavit, cooked up with spice and raisins and almonds, served hot.
Oh it's fabulous. And I only serve it to guests who live close enough to walk home.

[Frosty1]

7. Snowshoe Grog

Ingredients:
•1 1/2 oz bourbon or brandy
•1/2 oz peppermint schnapps
A Minnesota staple

[Taverner]

8. Doesn't grog just mean rum?

Or if you want to be exact, unfiltered rum

[TheMightyFavog]

10. Water it down, ad some sugar and Lime, and you have Grog.

End of Line.

[Taverner]

11. So what your're saying is that Mojitos are grog?

[TheMightyFavog]

9. I have.

Used Pusser's Rum (the stuff the Royal Navy used to dole out to its sailors). Wasn't bad. I'm not much of a rum drinker. I prefer whisky, gin, bourbon or brandy.

[Brother Buzz]

12. Yes, I worked for a shipwright on the Chesapeake...

That was the only drink consumed in his house. He collected rain water from the house leader pipes during rain and kept all fifty plus half-gallon run bottles lined against the walls of his mud room and kitchen topped off. The well water was really crappy. An old salt, and grandson of Richard Henry Dana, he picked up his rum habit building boats in the Caribbean for decades and decades.

Our grog was just rum and water and I liked it fine, yet chose to not make a lifetime avocation of drinking it.