An allusion toAdmiral Edward Vernon (nicknamed “Old Grog” after thegrogram coat he habitually wore), who in 1740 ordered his sailors' rum to be watered down.[1][2]
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1796,John Stedman, chapter 11, inNarrative of a Five Years’ Expedition[1], volume 1, London: J. Johnson, page264:
[…] giving him acalebash, and the best part of a bottle of my rum, I desired him to run to the creek, and make me somegrog, and this he did; but the poor fellow, never having madegrog before, poured in all the spirits and but very little water, doubtless thinking, that the stronger it was the better; which beverage I swallowed to the bottom, without taking time to taste it, and I became instantly so much intoxicated that I could hardly keep my feet.
An alcoholic beverage made with hot water or tea, sugar and rum, sometimes also with lemon or lime juice and spices, particularlycinnamon.
I quite understood their drift, and after a stiff glass ofgrog, or rather more of the same, and with each a sovereign in hand, they made light of the attack, and swore they would encounter a worse madman any day for the pleasure of meeting so 'bloomin' good a bloke' as your correspondent.
[…] a practice of “equal surrender.” This evocative phrase comes from Basil Sansom's ethnography[…] ofgrogging sessions among Aboriginal communities in Darwin. Sansom argues that this style of communal drinking[…]
