To anyone not Familiar with the term 'Grog' alas long since gone,the name grog came about during the time when in 1665 Jamaica was captured by Admiral Penn,and rum began to supercede Brandy,rum was cheap and easy to obtain and improved with keeping.It became an official issue to seamen and Marines in 1731,the daily half pint being issued in two equal parts one in the morning and the other in the evening.This inovation achieved rapid acceptance in the fleet.But in those days the spirit was issued neat and drunkenness became so rife that the good Admiral Vernon decreed that the daily allowance of half pint a man is to be mixed with a quart of water,to be mixed in one 'scuttled Butt' kept for that purpose and to be done upon deck and in the presence of the officer of the watch.The dilution henceforth became known as 'Grog' because of the Admiral's nick name of 'Old Grog',a reference to his habit of wearing clothes made of grogam.After Trafalgar it also became known as 'Nelsons blood' since it was commonly believed on the lower deck that after his death the body of Lord Nelson was conveyed back to this country inside a barrel of neat rum to preserve it,and the spirit was tapped by the Marine sentries keeping watch over it (trust Royal),the rum issue was the highlight of the days ship routine (up spirits) but the thing to look out for was that some crafty 3 Badge Marine (rum bosun) kept his thumb out of the Tot measure.Aye JR
Who needs the World as your Oyster,When you've had the world as your cap Badge
Jim, our Antipodean cousins still use the term Grog to describe alchohol, particularly rum. Down here, that`s Bundaberg and a loverly drop it is, too. One of the great Aussie inventions is the drive-through grog shop, saves wasting time getting out of your car
Aye, hic
Just finished a really good biography on Nelson. Warts an all by Terry Coleman. This author states he was transported back in a leaguer of Brandy. this had to be topped up with spirit of wine? several times on the five week journey home. Notwithstanding his head that was not entirely submerged it preserved his body particularly well.
Personally, every time I take a hefty nip of Woods 100 I always silently toast Nelson. Were it not for him and Arthur Wellesly, we would all be talking French today.
'you can take the man out of the corps but you can't take the corps out of the man'
To anyone not Familiar with the term 'Grog' alas long since gone,the name grog came about during the time when in 1665 Jamaica was captured by Admiral Penn,and rum began to supercede Brandy,rum was cheap and easy to obtain and improved with keeping.It became an official issue to seamen and Marines in 1731,the daily half pint being issued in two equal parts one in the morning and the other in the evening.This inovation achieved rapid acceptance in the fleet.But in those days the spirit was issued neat and drunkenness became so rife that the good Admiral Vernon decreed that the daily allowance of half pint a man is to be mixed with a quart of water,to be mixed in one 'scuttled Butt' kept for that purpose and to be done upon deck and in the presence of the officer of the watch.The dilution henceforth became known as 'Grog' because of the Admiral's nick name of 'Old Grog',a reference to his habit of wearing clothes made of grogam.After Trafalgar it also became known as 'Nelsons blood' since it was commonly believed on the lower deck that after his death the body of Lord Nelson was conveyed back to this country inside a barrel of neat rum to preserve it,and the spirit was tapped by the Marine sentries keeping watch over it (trust Royal),the rum issue was the highlight of the days ship routine (up spirits) but the thing to look out for was that some crafty 3 Badge Marine (rum bosun) kept his thumb out of the Tot measure.Aye JR 
and a loverly drop it is, too. One of the great Aussie inventions is the drive-through grog shop, saves wasting time getting out of your car 
