On Thu, 30 Jul 2020 09:04:20 +0000 (UTC), Phil Pugliese wrote:

> Anyone have any idea what the recipe for mixing 'grog' was?How about the 'proof' rating?

Well, looking at the modern recipes for the cocktail called "Navy Grog", my
_guess_ - and it very much is a guess - is that the original was simply
mixing the rum ration with the lime juice that led to RN personnel being
called "limeys", possibly adding whatever sweetener - honey, sugar,
molasses, etc. - was available to make the result palatable. Proof would,
obviously, depend on both the original proof of the rum ration, and the
amount of lime juice mixed with it.

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>    On Monday, July 27, 2020, 02:44:18 PM MST, Thomas RUX <xxxxxx@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Hello Jeff,
>
>The USN abolished the rum ration in 1862. The RN substituted beer for rum rations in 1970. The RAN apparently did not have rum rations unless they were onboard a RN ship and that was revoked in 1921. The RCN abolished rum rations in 1972 and the RNZN held out until 1990.
>
>Tom Rux
>
>> On 07/27/2020 1:56 PM Jeff Zeitlin <xxxxxx@freelancetraveller.com> wrote:
>>
>> 
>> On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 11:27:02 -0700 (PDT), Thomas RUX <xxxxxx@comcast.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >The USN was pretty much based on the RN with modifications with the President as the Commander in Chief versus the ruling Queen/King. Of course we also lost out on the rum ration.
>>
>> My understanding is that the 'rum ration' was lost to the United States
>> Navy (and any equivalent in the other services as well) as a result of the
>> passing of Article XVIII Amending [the Constitution of the United States],
>> and it was not restored on the passage of Article XXI Amending.
>>
>> Many police departments "took away the rum ration" from their officers by
>> instituting regulations that basically amount to
>>
>> "Because you are privileged to carry a gun at all times in the name of the
>>  People of the State of Confusion, you are also expected to be ready and
>>  able at all times, sleep excepted, to respond to crimes committed against
>>  the PotSoC. It is therefore an offense under the Rules and Regulation of
>>  the Department ["Rendering oneself unfit for duty"] to consume alcohol or
>>  similarly-effecting substances while on duty, or when not on duty to be
>>  intoxicated or impaired through the consumption of alcohol or other
>>  similarly-effecting products."
>>
>> This doesn't prohibit the cop from having a beer or two when he goes "off
>> duty", but it does mean that if he gets stupid drunk and comes to the
>> official attention of his colleagues, he will find himself at the very
>> least with the pointy end of the "Captain's Mast" in very intimate contact
>> with portions of his anatomy usually used for the expulsion of
>> nondigestible solids.
>>
>>
>> (For those who are not familiar with the Constitution of the United States,
>> Article XVIII Amending barred the [legal] production and sale of alcoholic
>> beverages in all jurisdictions under the authority of the United States;
>> Article XXI Amending repealed Article XVIII Amending, and explicitly
>> delegated the choice to the several States. Some states have chosen to move
>> the decision authority down to the county level. It is an interesting
>> tidbit that the county in which Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey is produced
>> has chosen to be a "dry" county (sale of alcoholic beverages prohibited),
>> and its best-known product, with world-wide reach, cannot be purchased
>> there.)
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