Football Friday Tailgate Treats: Army-Navy Beverages

1. Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker and fill it 3/4 with ice.
2. Shake until chilled, then strain into a coupe glass.
3. Garnish with a lemon twist, and edible flowers if desired.

Did you know spiced rum was invented by sailors?

Navy Grog

A Navy staple that sailors alive as well as kept them happy.  You see the vitamin C from lime juice prevented scurvy. Soon the idea spread beyond the boat.

Ingredients:

• 1 oz Light Rum
•  1 oz Dark Jamaican Rum
•  1 oz Demerara Rum
•  1 oz Honey Mix – see the recipe below
•  ¾ oz Fresh Lime Juice
•  ¾ oz Fresh Grapefruit Juice
•  ¾ oz Club Soda Water
•  1 Mint Sprig
•  1 Lime Wedge

Instructions:

1. Place your frozen ice cone into a double rocks-style glass.
2. Pour all ingredients into a shaker, adding enough crushed ice to show above the surface of the liquid.
3. Shake your drink vigorously for around 15 seconds, until a light frosting starts to form on the outside of the shaker. Strain into the glass, around the ice cone.
4. Create your garnish by first giving the mint a good slap to release the oils and then placing it in your glass alongside the ice cone. Cut a slit in the lime wedge and slide it onto the rim of the glass.

Honey Mix Recipe:

Why bother making Honey Mix you ask? Why can’t you just add the honey straight into the cocktail? Honey will blend nicely in something warm like tea, but as soon as it comes into contact with ice, it’ll thicken up and create a lumpy mess. The process of turning it into syrup stops this from happening. The good thing is that the recipe is really simple:

• Combine equal parts (1:1 ratio) of water and honey in a saucepan, over low to medium heat.
• Stir until the honey has fully dissolved, but do not let it boil.
• Allow to cool and pour into a sterilized bottle.

Suffering Bastard Recipe

It was 1942 in Cairo, Egypt. A year earlier, Hitler sent troops to North Africa, led by General Erwin Rommel. By the end of 1942, the Nazis had cut off supply chains to the Allies and were quickly getting closer and closer to entering the city of Cairo.  A man named Joe Scialom lived in Cairo and worked as a hotel bartender. He came to work one day in desperate need of a hangover cure, but since supplies were low he had to create something new, and something that didn’t use a lot of ingredients or spirits. Thus, the Suffering Bastard cocktail was born.* courtesy of whimsy soul dot com. Click the link above to read more of the story.

•  2 oz gin (we like to keep our gin chilled in the fridge.)
• 1 oz bourbon or brandy,
• 2 dashes of Angostura bitters,
• 1/5 oz lime juice cordial that’s all shaken together with ice.
• Then poured into a glass, topped with ginger beer and an orange wedge and mint sprig garnish.