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Honey Rum Grog

Name: Honey Rum Grog
Total time: 5 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Navy rum (ideally circa 55% alc./vol.); 3 barspoon Honey; 7.5 ml Lime juice; 60 ml Chilled water; 2 dash Aromatic bitters

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Ingredients
1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz	Navy rum (ideally circa 55% alc./vol.)
3 barspoon	Honey
¹⁄₄ fl oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
2 fl oz	Chilled water/mineral water
2 dash	Angostura Aromatic Bitters

How to make

Glass

Photographed in an Urban Bar Freddo Old Fashioned

Prepare

Select and pre-chill an OLD-FASHIONED GLASS.
Prepare garnish of lime wedge.

Method

STIR honey with other ingredients in base of shaker until the honey is dissolved.
SHAKE with ice.
STRAIN into ice-filled glass.

Garnish

Garnish with lime wedge.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Alcohol content:

We don't have enough information to calculate the alc./vol., but based on known ingredients, this recipe contains at least:

20 grams of pure alcohol

History

This Grog traces its origin back to the British Navy and Admiral Edward "Old Grog" Vernon's 1740 Order to Captains No.349 instructing that the daily ration of high-proof Navy rum was diluted with water and that where possible lime juice and sugar was made available.

Review

Not to be confused with the famous Tiki cocktail, Navy Grog, this Navy rum and honey sour is very enjoyable.

Variations/similar cocktails

Also great served hot. Top with boiling water and garnish with a cinnamon stick.

Planteray Mister Fogg Navy Rum 700ml - makes 15.5 cocktails
$35.99 $2.32 per cocktail

Angostura Aromatic Bitters 120ml - makes 192 cocktails
$13.99 $0.07 per cocktail Angostura Aromatic Bitters image

$2.39 per cocktail*

Makes a minimum of 15.5 cocktails.
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G. M. Genovese Premium Member 1y

I've made countless recipes of Grog over the last few years. The one listed on the label of the Hamilton BBB Navy Grog blend might be the best. Why this particular take isn't hitting the mark, I can't tell. I've found Pusser's Gunpowder strength more than serviceable so far, if not transcendent.

Chris Dimal 3y

Used Old Monk rum (the closest thing we can get to Navy Rum where I am living), and it is really good cold! The sweetness and richness of the honey, plus the complexity of the bitters begin. A tinge of citrus follows, with the rum rounding it out. I wonder how it would be with real Navy style rum...

John Hinojos Premium Member 4y

Different from the other rum grog. Not sweet or tiki, but very flavourful. We used a Smith and Cross overproof Jamaican Navy Rum. Went perfectly together. Great for National/International Rum Day.

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