Grog

[Seahound]

Anbody know a good mix for making grog? I've tried to make a simple syrup with brown sugar and using Pusser's as a base. It seems that no matter how I mix it the brown sugar overpowers the rum and the lime juice just seems distracting. I suspect the problem was that I used bottled lime juice instead of the fresh stuff and overdid the syrup to try and counter it. If anyone has any ideas I'd love to hear them.

[Scottes]

Always fresh juice! And try turbinado sugar, which will greatly reduce the molasses taste and should give a nice "mild molasses" taste. In a way.

You can generally find the turbinado sugar at organic foodstores - Trader Joes and Whole Foods Market an the like. Or general grocery stores might have Sugar In The Raw.

[Berbician]

What is Turbinado sugar? I've never heard of it. Does it have a different name in Britain?

[Scottes]

I can't say explain it better...

Turbinado sugar (popular brand name(s) include Sugar in the Raw (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_in_the_Raw)) is a type of sugar cane (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_cane) extract. It is made by steaming unrefined raw sugar.
Turbinado sugar is similar in appearance to brown sugar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_sugar) but paler, and in general the two can be exchanged freely in recipes.
Related types of raw sugar include Muscovado (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscovado) and Demerara (sugar) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demerara_%28sugar%29).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbinado

Though it say that turbinado and brown sugars can be exchanged freely, I find the taste of turbinado to be a couple notches down, maybe even half way between brown and organic cane sugar. It's really nice for rum drinks, and good to have for the bar. I use these two for simple syrup, and don't have any table-sugar-based simple syrup.

[Berbician]

Thank you.