Mixing grog?

[OGITD]

The very last of the last

Here.

 

[G12]

If you must mix it with something, try this:

A good two fingers of rum
mash up some fresh chopped mint (not much) with a quartered lime, one heaped teaspoon of demerara sugar and some crushed ice

Put it all into one glass and enjoy

if that doesn't work for you then you must be mixing it wrong and I will have to come round and show you how to drink it

So that's a Mojito then!

EDIT: I see I was beaten to it........ so I will add that proper Mojito's are made with white rum. There is a huge amount of skill involved in making a good one, you can't just bung it all together or it'll taste average.
The best two Mojito's I've had were in Michael Cain's bar in Exeter and The Zero Lounge in Penzance.

 

[Gordonmc]

You cannot get the 'real' pussers rum anymore - so 4-1 with water wouldn't be the same...the stuff sold as Pussers Rum is a pale imitation according to my taste buds and memory.

If you want some fine rum then get a bottle of Ron Zacapa Centinario.

Sipping some right now as it happens.

Try the 15 year old Pussers. Diffrn't class.
I agree about the Zacapo, though. A bottle appeared in my local which is renowned for its range of rums, malts and real ale. It was soon cottened on to and has become the rum of choice - despite it going for more than a fiver for a dram.
My ambition is to sample the Zacapo 30th Anniversary, but at £230 a bottle it will have to wait.
In answer to the OP the standard recipe for grog was rum, water, (or more likely small beer), lemon or limejuice and nutmeg. It was the best way of getting the tars to take vitamin c.
Buccaneers, however had access to fresh fruit and vegetables and had their rum sans lemon juice but with water, nutmeg and cinnamon - called bumboo, the original spiced rum.