Name: Honey Rum Grog
Total time: 5 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Navy rum (ideally 54.5% alc./vol.); 3 barspoon Honey; 7.5 ml Lime juice; 60 ml Chilled water; 2 dash Aromatic bitters

Honey Rum Grog
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Photographed in an Urban Bar Freddo Old Fashioned

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Navy rum (ideally 54.5% alc./vol.)
3 barspoon	Honey
¹⁄₄ oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
2 oz	Chilled water
2 dash	Angostura Aromatic Bitters

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill an Old-fashioned glass.
Prepare garnish of lime wedge.
STIR honey with other ingredients in base of shaker until the honey is dissolved.
SHAKE with ice.
STRAIN into ice-filled glass.
Garnish with lime wedge.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

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

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Variant:

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

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.

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G. M. Genovese

20th March at 19:09

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

13th November 2022 at 20:29

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

16th August 2022 at 00:20

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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