PODCAST: Drinking Through Naval History

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🗓️ 14 August 2015

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In this week's podcast, navalists B.J. Armstrong and Scott Cheney-Peters joined Alex Hecht, the editor of the Molotov Cocktail channel, and Ryan Evans for a carousing (but responsible) imbibing of naval history through four naval drinks: grog, the rum flip, the daiquiri, and the gimlet. Have a listen and drink along with us! The recipes are below. Grog: 4 ounces lime juice 1/4 pound brown sugar 4 oz. dark rum 8 oz. water 2 sprigs mint Rum Flip: 4 oz. Gosling's Rum 1 oz. simple syrup 2 egg yolks Grated nutmeg Daiquiri: 3 oz. silver rum 1.5 oz. simple syrup 1.5 oz. lime juice Gimlet: 3 oz. London dry gin 1.5 oz. simple syrup 1.5 oz. lime juice Image: Wikimedia Commons. Illustration from the book "Songs, naval and national" by Thomas Dibdin, published in London, England in 1841. The caption is "Saturday Night At Sea," and shows a group of sailors amusing themselves while off duty by singing. The illustration itself is by George Cruikshank (d. 1878).

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0:00.0	Here we are with another edition of our War on the Rocks podcast series.
0:04.0	I'm very excited about this when we haven't done anything like this.
0:06.5	This is Ryan Evans by the way.
0:08.0	We have three guests here and we're going to talk about drinks in naval history and we're actually going to make these drinks and consume these drinks as we talk about them.
0:17.2	And so I have right next to me have Alex Hecht who was the manager of the Gibson, the D.C. Speakeasy, from 2010 to 2012,
0:26.7	and then the general manager, and now he's at the Navante Group, doing all sorts of interesting stuff.
0:32.1	We have Scott Cheney Peters, who's the founder of SimSek, which if you don't know about it, you already should it's a really important form for the discussion of maritime issues and he has his own history with the US Navy. We have B.J. Armstrong, who is a naval officer,
0:44.6	currently reading for his PhD
0:45.9	at the King's College War Studies Department,
0:48.5	and a historian himself in his own right.
0:52.2	And he's written a few books books which I'm sure he'll
0:54.6	plug at some point during the podcast and you know just thanks Scott thanks for
1:00.3	joining guys. Our pleasure. Thanks for sitting
1:02.5	sitting this up.
1:03.4	And so we have a few different drinks we're going to try.
1:05.7	The first one is going to be Grock, which Alex sent me over the
1:08.8	instructions and I actually had to prepare this one ahead of time today at our office kitchen and Alex won't you tell me a bit
1:16.1	about this as I tore out examples for everybody.
1:19.8	Absolutely so Grogg was a means of making a couple of things happen within the Navy.
1:26.5	Specifically, it was a means of sort of cutting the rum ration that the British Navy had as part of its daily life up until
1:36.8	the 1970s.
1:39.3	For a while it was a pint of rum and it was very quickly observed that combat effectiveness and
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