/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>10960223
Why don't you just make drinks that taste good instead of trying to recreate a shitty beverage that people had a limited source of supplies made? Are you and your friends going to dress up in pirate gear and pretend the couch is your ship or something? Are you 7?

>>10960223
Get the cheapest bottom-shelf "rum" you can find. Mix it with dirty rainwater and cram a piece of moldy lemon in it that you've "aged" in a dirty, wet, ship's hold for a couple months. Serve in a beat-up mug that hasn't been washed, ever.

I have no idea why people today think that Grog was something that was enjoyable.

>>10960223
Well, the important thing is that you're using rum of a high enough ABV. The main reason they could do that involved it being much stronger back then. Minimum 57%. You have to make sure the rum comes from the Caribbean, too, so Jamaican is a good place to start.

>>10960292
Actually the main reason was to make sure sailors drank some water instead of just rum so officers would only issue them grog instead
Add lemon for scurvy
Anyway OP nobody drank grog because they wanted to, so i dont know why you would

Just make a fucking rum and tonic

>>10960246
Do you not know how to have a bit of fun? Sometimes it's interesting to do things the old way and just enjoy yourself.

>>10960246
>I AM A RATIONAL THINKER
>BRUH ORBITING TEAPOTS LMAO
>I LOOOOVE ADAM RUINS EVERYTHING

>>10960223
>large amount of water
Idk, seems as if water would be scarce. All you dreamers need to start rationalizing.

>>10960318
I'm all in favor of doing stuff that's fun. But grog ain't it. Pick something that was actually meant to be good for your LARP experience. Or go full fantasy and make unrealistic but tasty grog-themed drinks. Trying to make historically accurate grog for the purpose of having fun is like subjecting yourself to historically accurate Inquisition methods of torture for fun.

>>10960318
What youre describing would be something like learning to to make moonshine in a wooden still
What OP is describing is more akin to taking a shit in an outhouse

It wasnt something anyone ever did for fun

>>10960273
Seriously. Too many autists in here thinking what it would be like to experience authenticity. Nothing is wrong with that shit though, just makes me laugh.

2 ounces dark, decent proof rum. Smith & Cross or Appleton 12 is solid for this. If you want to get fucked you can use an overproof but frankly I like at least one rum drink I can slam.

Half ounce demerara syrup or regular bitch boy simple. Rich demerara has a bit of vanilla and salt in it if yer looking to make it.

Half ounce lime juice. Use a fresh one.

That's grog, I guarantee pirates would prefer this over a slog of brackish water.

>>10960376
Well said.

There's a few navy strength rums on the market. The most common is probably Pusser's. Mix with stagnant rainwater and rotten lemon as mentioned before. Pour into a banged up copper mug that's been used by a dozen other guys who never brush their teeth. Garnish with sodomy and the lash.

>>10960223
>>10960376
>>10960819
Could just make colonial punch

>>10960379
And yet, as a once off experience, people tend to find it interesting. They may never do it again, but they've done it

>>10960376
>>10960819
No? How do you equate torture to alcohol?

>>10960893
Whats interesting about drinking watered-down rum
If youve ever made a mixed drink with rum and ice and didnt drink it fast enough, youve experienced all there is to experience about grog

>>10960318
Yay, thumb-screws!

>>10960817
>Smith & Cross

Bad idea for a first-timer. The funk will turn them off.

>>10960223
Why would you do dis? They didn't drink grog because they wanted to.

>>10962280
Water for hydration. The alcohol helps sterilize it. Limes to stave off scurvy.

>>10960273
grog literally just existed to be too nasty and watered-down to get a good buzz going off of while still being antibacterial enough to keep dysentery from spreading

it's not like drinking an old cocktail that dropped out of fashion, it's like deciding to jump straight to mainlining methadone because heroin isn't edgy enough for you

>>10960246
You should get back to seeing your therapist my friend

>>10960837
Hahaha, You beat me to Pussers. I would have added the left over bits from keelhauled sailors.

>>10960898
If it's methanol then yeah you're going down pretty harshly.

ARRR MAYTAY! I NEED ME GROG!
I GOT ME PEGLEG AND A PARROT ON ME SHOULDER!!!!
Fuck it's not even international talk like a pirate day.

>>10960921
>>10960379
>>10960246
you are such a fucking teenager

>>10963806
And you're a fucking cunt.

>>10963806
>STOP MAKING GOOD POINTS :(

What are some great rums for around 50 dollars you would recommend?

>>10964929
Zaya is pretty good. Bacoo is also a fantastic rum for the price.

>>10964929
Here's a good one from Venezuela. It comes with a nice pouch that you can use to hold wads of money and stuff.
Pampero

>>10963809
Being hostile and screaming at people for no fBLEEPing reason is not a good point. It just look like a fBLEEPing aBLEEPhole.

>>10963806

They might be but ye still be a giant fucking faggot. Yarrrrrr.

>>10960223
If it's for Larp autism I understand completely.

If it's just normal autism why the fuck would you bother?

Also I like Kraken

>>10962290
Yeah, idiot, they put rum in the water so they could keep their drinking water clean. It was out of necessity and the real thing wouldn't be alcoholic enough to get you drunk within any reasonable time frame. Who wants to have to drink a lemon water with a piss of old rum in it?

>>10966491
The other big reason grog caught on was that it prevented the sailors from hoarding their rum rations and getting shitfaced later.

>>10962290
>The alcohol helps sterilize it
>>10966491
>so they could keep their drinking water clean
The level of dilution they were using didn't do shit for sterility. Rum was given out as a reward, to keep workers in line. Minor infractions = no rum. You can't keep order when the only punishment is execution, there needs to be gradations of punishment otherwise you'll have a mutiny in no time.

You retards probably also think spicy foods were to "kill the germs".

>>10967720
what he's describing is grog, and it was indeed a method used to make stagnant or algaed water drinkable.

you're wrong about spicy foods too.

they drank water not rum you nigger
they added small quantities of rum to 'cure' the water after its been sitting still for months to years on a ship so as to prevent diarrhea, legionella or worse afflictions
you are not a pirate
you are an autist
you are a nigger

>>10960246
damn, you must be really popular with the ladies.

>>10968685
>appeal to holes

The weakest of all insults

>>10968056
you braindamaged fart sniffer. oftentimes sailors wouldn't even set foot on a ship if the captain/shipowning company didn't contractually oblige to give them their daily share of rum.

>>10968694
kek, I knew it. you are living with your poor mother in your personal basement cave and the last time you went socialising with people was at the high school prom.

>>10967720
spicy foods unlike what filthy 3rd worlders will tell you is not to "make you sweat to cool you down in the heat"
its because the people who live in spicy food regions also happen to live in abject poverty and they needed to heavily spice their foods to cover up the foul taste of decay in their spoiled meats
another aspect of being a retarded 3rd worlder is they somehow never figures out basic meat preservation unlike enlightened cold climaters

people with origins in cold climates are simply better all around

>>10960246
Fuck that actually sounds like fun lets pop a bunch of Molly and pretend were pirates

>>10960273
You basically described what meyers rum tastes like maybe add a ground up sharpie

>>10968741
that's a nonsense explanation. People lived in abject poverty everywhere, not just regions with spices.

It's related to climate. nothing more. Hot peppers grow in the tropics. They don't grow in northern Europe. It has everything to do with longitude and nothing more.