Blogging Grog
I wanted to post this. Maybe someone else has invented a recipe like this, but until I see someone else's recipe, I am calling it mine. This drink kicks butt. I will be making it for my next cookout.
Captain's Select Grog
1) Ginger simple syrup (make simple syrup from sugar - heat up some slices of ginger)
2) Citrus - I use a mix, possibly including lime, lemon, Valencia oranges, blood oranges, grapefruit, tangerines. Whatever you got. I usually make my drink a little more orange heavy.
3) Rum - I like black strap rum for this drink, but if you were to use dark sugar (brown sugar or the like) to make the simple syrup above, you could use a lighter rum.
4) Carbonated water. La Crikes! or something like that.
I usually mix these until they taste good. I think it is about 1:1:1:1 of all the ingredients. But I will make it soon. At that time I will post the actual proportions I used.
The easy version:
Substitute strong ginger ale, like Reed’s, for the Ginger simple syrup and carbonated water above. It is still pretty good if you do this, but I don’t think it is quite as good. Plus, you aren’t really showing you are committed to the drink if you do cop-outs like this. But yeah, in a pinch, this’ll do.
Captain's Select Grog
1) Ginger simple syrup (make simple syrup from sugar - heat up some slices of ginger)
2) Citrus - I use a mix, possibly including lime, lemon, Valencia oranges, blood oranges, grapefruit, tangerines. Whatever you got. I usually make my drink a little more orange heavy.
3) Rum - I like black strap rum for this drink, but if you were to use dark sugar (brown sugar or the like) to make the simple syrup above, you could use a lighter rum.
4) Carbonated water. La Crikes! or something like that.
I usually mix these until they taste good. I think it is about 1:1:1:1 of all the ingredients. But I will make it soon. At that time I will post the actual proportions I used.
The easy version:
Substitute strong ginger ale, like Reed’s, for the Ginger simple syrup and carbonated water above. It is still pretty good if you do this, but I don’t think it is quite as good. Plus, you aren’t really showing you are committed to the drink if you do cop-outs like this. But yeah, in a pinch, this’ll do.