Voodoo Grog - How 2 Make Trader Vic's Tiki Drink & the History of Pop Culture Voodoo
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- Here’s how to make the Voodoo Grog, a tiki cocktail that’s a combination of Navy Grog from Don the Beachcomber and from Trader Vic, only taken to the next level. The drink is made with AOC Martinique Rhum Agricole, Haitian Rhum, Pimento Dram, Passion Fruit Syrup, Honey Syrup, Lime Juice, Grapefruit Juice, Egg White and Nutmeg, with a cherry, dried pineapple and mint for garnish. The drink was created by Trader Vic and decoded by Beachbum Berry.
As explored in Berry’s book, Potions of the Caribbean, a lot of tiki drinks and tiki culture trace their roots more to the Caribbean than Polynesia. With this one, it’s not only the name (explored ad nauseum in the video), but also the flavors and ingredients. The rhums, allspice, the punch-like construction and its similarities to the Navy Grog all point to the Caribbean.
The drink is a cross between the Don the Beachcomber recipe for the Navy Grog and the Trader Vic’s recipe for the Navy Grog. The drink is made up of multiple r(h)ums, lime and grapefruit, just like the Navy Grog. It uses both Donn’s sweetener (honey) and Vic’s sweetener (pimento dram). But then it builds on top of that by throwing passion fruit, egg white and nutmeg into the mix.
The result is a smooth and creamy drink with a really complex and exotic flavor. Because of the creamy texture, I prefer to drink it without a straw. Vic and Beachbum Berry might disagree. And if you want to drink it with a straw, make sure it’s a short one so you don’t miss the incredible aromatics of the nutmeg and mint. That smell is really important and it adds to the whole delicate balance of the flavors of this drink. Okole Maluna!
Recipe:
1 oz (30 ml) Aged AOC Martinique Rhum Agricole (ESB or Ambré)
1 oz (30 ml) Gold Rum (Aged Haitian Rhum preferred)
0.75 oz (22 ml) Lime Juice
0.75 oz (22 ml) Grapefruit Juice
0.75 oz (22 ml) Passion Fruit Syrup
0.5 oz (15 ml) Pimento Dram (Allspice Liqueur)
0.25 oz (7 ml) Honey Syrup (3:1)
1 Egg White
8 oz (240 ml) Crushed Ice
Garnish: fresh grated Nutmeg, Cherry, Dried Pineapple Wheel & Mint
Blend all-but garnish-on High for 20 seconds. Pour into mug or double old fashioned glass. Add garnish. Grate nutmeg.
Original Trader Vic Recipe:
1 oz (30 ml) AOC Martinique Rhum Agricole Vieux
1 oz (30 ml) Gold Puerto Rican Rum
0.5 oz (15 ml) Passion Fruit Nectar
0.75 oz (22 ml) Pimento Dram (Allspice Liqueur)
0.75 oz (22 ml) Grapefruit Juice
0.75 oz (22 ml) Lime Juice
0.25 oz (7 ml) Honey
1 Egg White
8 oz (240 ml) Crushed Ice
Garnish: fresh grated Nutmeg, Pineapple Stick & Mint
Stir together Honey and Lime. Add to blender along with all other ingredients other than garnish.
Blend on High for 20 seconds. Pour into Voodoo Tumbler. Add garnish. Grate nutmeg.
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"Crush it like Napoleon's dreams of recolonizing Haiti" :) Great Video
Haha. Thanks!
That pineapple wheel looks so exotic.
It's one of my favorite tiki garnishes. It has a super long shelf life, looks great and tastes good.
There's been a growing movement over the last few years to stop treating tiki stylings as mere frivolous fun. I think it can still be fun, but paying attention to tiki culture's origins and influences is incredibly important. Videos (and channels) like this do a great job of finding the value in all aspects of the drinks and their history
Holy hell, what a production! Your videos have really been blowing me away lately.
Cheers! Glad to hear it!
I got lost in the history and forgot we were making a drink! Excellent video! Keep up the great work!
Haha. Yeah, this one had a long runway. Glad you liked it. Cheers!
@@DistinguishedSpirits it's been too long since I've had a dose of your cocktail videos! You Tube simply doesn't have an equal to fill the gaps between your videos. Hope you are well and keep it up! Cheers!
the effort you put into these videos is just incredible
This one was definitely a lot of work. Glad it paid off for you.
Best one yet.
Your videos (especially tiki) are so far beyond excellence in quality, history, and videography. Outstanding work 🍹
Glad to hear you liked it so well. Cheers!
Good grief that was astounding! Can’t believe the amount of research and production work that went into this - such a great overview of tiki, 50s pop voodoo, Beachbum Berry & Trader Vic... on and on, holy cow
Thanks! Glad you liked it so well. It was a lot of work, but a lot of fun. Cheers!
"Crush it like Nepoleon's dreams of recolonizing Haiti." 😂😂😂
Glad you enjoyed that one. 😉👍
“You’re going to need more than one drink to take care of your torn rotator cuff.” Priceless!
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Once I saw that you were using the "Bone Collector" mug from Three Dots and a Dash, I was hooked. Excellent video... even if I feel the narrator is somehow stealing my wife from me. lol
She's mine now! Haha. Glad you dug the video. Cheers!
As a new TIKI fan interested it Grog recipes I think I clicked on the wrong video.... Now I'm going to have voodoo zombie nightmares for the next 12 years - SUBSCRIBED!!!!!!
Great informative video. Love the production value. Also love that o have everything on hand, including homemade pimento dram, to make the cocktail this weekend. Might try both variations for the measure of syrup and dram.
Nice! Do it. Let me know how they turn out.
This is by far my favorite video of yours, I find myself rewatching it a lot.
Oh thanks! It's one of my faves too (I also like the Barrel-Aged Black Rider quite a bit). The history portion of this was really exciting to explore. Thanks for keeping it in your rotation. Cheers!
We need more tiki history videos! They are literally incredible to watch!
Cheers! Glad to hear you like them so well.
These are some of the best videos on TH-cam! Excellent production!!!
This is by far my favourite channel for cocktails. Making one of the drinks you talk about makes me feel like I'm in that era after hearing all the history. It makes the experience of having a cocktail a hundred times cooler.
Thank you! That's exactly what I'm going for. Glad you dig it. Cheers!
This video was so worth the wait, man! Your videos are excellent, definitely my favorite in the cocktail genre. Let me know if you ever want to collab in something, I’m a huge cocktail fan (building a big home bar as we speak).
Awesome! Glad to hear you liked the video and the channel over all. Thanks for the kind words. Down to collab. Let me know what you had in mind.
Building a home bar? Sounds like a blast. Can't wait to see how it turns out. Cheers!
Shout out to Haiti! Sak Passe!!!!!
Indeed. Cheers!
Awesome video I learned a lot , plus make a great tiki drink
Who cares about the drink?! The history aspect of this vid is top notch! Cheers!
Very much appreciated and very well researched as always. Interesting did you know your Thursdays Child and this have some connection? Eartha Kitt's teacher and mentor Katherine Dunham was a Haitian Voodoo initiate and is still considered America's academic authority on Voodoo. Katherine's assistant was Maya Deren, who around her time with Katherine filmed The Divine Horseman - the Living Gods of Haiti. I have no DIRECT statement that Eartha Kitt was a Voodoo Initiate, but there is certainly circumstantial suggestion and her personal ethics reflect that of Voodoo. Eartha's neighbors in Beverly Hills, and her good friend James Dean referred to her as a Voodoo queen. Katherine Dunham's Dance Company was famous for presenting Voodoo ritual dance on stage... once again, thanks, your presentations are always enjoyable and informative.
Glad you liked it. Thanks for tying this one into Eartha and Thursday's Child.
I knew some of that. That's Maya Deren's voice and her footage of a couple Haitian Vodou ceremonies at 1:33. I knew about Maya's connection to Eartha via Katherine Dunham, but I didn't realize Dunham was into Vodou. I almost included a little section on Maya, Eartha and Katherine, but the video is long enough as it is. Haha. Cheers!
Still my favorite channel
Your magnum opus so far! Bravo, sir!!
Thanks! This one was pretty fun to produce. Cheers!
Damn can't wait till white grapefruits are in season! I'm gonna sub Amburana Cachaça for the Rhum Agricole when I make this drink
Right on. Let me know how it turns out.
Your content is absolutely incredible. Please don’t stop making videos.
Ooooeeeerrr never came across this one, so that’s a new one to try during this holiday cheers
Glad you found it. It was a crazy story and the drink is a lot of fun too. Cheers!
I'm poor but if i could support this channel through Patreon or somehow. It's the thought that counts i hope. Btw that's a 10/10 description. And thank you for the entertainment and getting me further into mixology!
For sure. Thanks for watching!
Excellent video, great drinks and entertaining history.
Cheers! Glad you dug it.
OMG… I never realized I needed to see a Voodoo Macbeth!
You definitely do
This channel is gold
Cheers!
I absolutely love your videos. History, Literature and Cocktails are my three main things and you hit them all.
Haha. Nice! Firing on all cylinders. Cheers!
So incredibly thorough man, fantastic as always!
Cheers!
Gotta make that Simon Bolivar cocktail.
Hi. do you have the recipe?
It's available here: bit.ly/2tCEE1d
Every time you bring up HPL and Cthulhu it makes me happy to have subbed to your channel
That is not dead which can eternal lie.
Fantastic history Tiki has so many great cocktails and is just plain Fun!
Glad you liked it so well. Cheers!
This is an awesome video. Your Ken Burns power level is off the charts on this one.
Ken Burns power. 😂
Great history. Loved the vid, you now have a new subscriber.
Excellent! Welcome aboard!
Yum! I made this today and really liked it. Not sure why it uses egg white....seems like an odd choice for tiki.Great video as always!
Basically it’s there for the creamy mouthfeel, like a Guinness. Glad you liked it. Cheers!
Great video. I had to watch it twice to absorb the info. I also liked the streamlined measure/pour sequences.
Haha. Yeah, it's a lot to take in. Glad you liked the measurements. Hopefully it helped it seem less daunting.
God your chefs cadence is amazing!
Haha. Cheers!
Not gonna lie, I got wrapped up in the history and totally forgot this was a drink recipe video. Great work. The "Voodoo 'Macbeth'", the idea of switching up the setting and magic of the play, was a brilliant idea and, as a theater major, I'm surprised I never heard of that production before. Also, thank you for debunking a lot of the myths and misconceptions that Hollywood, Lovecraft, and pop culture in general perpetuate. I'm not a voodoo practitioner myself, but I am a fellow Pagan (Wiccan) and so it's always nice to see people point out stereotypes for being the bullshit that they are. And lastly, of course, the drink looks delicious! Cheers!
Yeah, this was a really fun video to put together. I totally thought it was going to be a quick one, but then got sucked into more of a vortex than a rabbit hole on the history of voodoo in pop culture. Voodoo Macbeth is a classic, but, yes, it's a brilliant idea to reconfigure the setting from the Scottish highlands to revolution-era Haiti. That's Welles for you. Here's more footage of the play (www.filmpreservation.org/preserved-films/screening-room/t1-we-work-again-1937).
@@DistinguishedSpirits Glad you had a good time researching it; it's definitely an interesting topic. And thanks for the link to more footage! Adapting classics for the stage is in my wheelhouse (I'm a playwright), so to see how the great artists who came before did so is an absolute treat.
Man, what a great video!
Will make this once white grapefruit are back in season.
Glad you dug it. Gotta love that white grapefruit. Cheers!
You’ve outclassed yourself once again. Awesome video and awesome drink. Thanks for the hard work you put into this.
Cheers! This one was supposed to be easy, then I got sucked down a rabbit hole. Glad you liked it.
Awesome!.. Chicken heart, lol.. But that little blue skull tucked into the pineapple wheel is damn scary.. Voodoo nightmares tonight for sure.. Thanks bud!
Glad you dug it. Cheers!
Tried this with some hampden estate gold and trois rivieres blanc, was a stellar cocktail.✨👌 Keep up the great work my man. 👍
Glad you liked it. Cheers!
Great videos!!! More TIKI please!!
Coming soon. Stay tuned...
I think you are a southern California resident. This vid is awesome
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Man, I love your tiki videos and love your anticolonial stance. Based af.
Really amazing... Looks so exotic, fresh, elegant.
It's all four of those things! Cheers!
Very good details for the well resea4ched cocktail. It was worth the wait!
Cheers! Glad you dug it.
Many many thanks. I´ve been learning a lot from you. I just started my journey. Ahoi
Cheers! Glad you liked the videos.
Excellent video, the voodoo history is so interesting!
Thanks! That was a fun one to explore. Cheers!
I just ordered smugglers cove! Now I need to find some ceramic mugs! And build myself a tiki bar 😉
Haha. Excellent. Well, one step at a time.
Your videos are great. So well researched and well made!
Awesome! Glad you like them so well.
Excellent as always! Where can I pick up the angry winking scull mug at timeline 17:11?
Best video ever.
What a fascinating video, and drink! Thank you.
Cheers! Glad you dug it.
These videos are great!
Thank you!
Definitely gonna try this. Ever made fassionola? Would love to see a video on that sometime... Cheers.
Do it. Let know how it turns out.
Fassionola? No. I know I need to dig into that one some time.
Fantastic..! Very well done as always, looks very tasty i will have to try it out, only thing i don't have is a passion fruit syrup but that's easy to make, and i also have a open bottle of 11 year old cask strength Barbancourt rum so should be perfect.
Oh wow. That Barbancourt sounds excellent. Let me know how your Grog turns out. Cheers!
@@DistinguishedSpirits Just tried it..! Tried to @ you on Instagram not sure if it worked. But its very good but a bit sweet/light for me might have to play around with the ratios of syrups and maybe different rums / more powerful ones
Wow you put a ton of effort in the production of this video!
Yeah, it turned into a much bigger production than it started out as.
Great as always, love the history
Cheers! Appreciate it.
In response to your question on IG, there's a link to the skull cocktail picks in the Description of the video. Just out of curiosity, did that not come through or did it get lost because there were 300 links in there?
Here it is again just to make it easier: amzn.to/2CYgWCT
And yes, they ship to PA. 😉👍
Another great video! Great job!!
Thank you. Cheers!
Well done, Thank you.
Cheers! Thanks for watching!
Great video!!!
Cheers!
Dude, I NEED one of those Cthulhu mugs 😆
Yeah you do! Cthulhu Tiki Mug (black/red) by Shima Ceramics
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Can we see you mug collection??
It's pretty modest. You'll see them in the videos. None will go to waste.
Haven't seen a new video from you in a while, hope you are doing well.
Doing well. Just super busy and unfortunately haven't had time to put one together. I just shot a new one and hope to get it up soon!
best video so far!
Glad to hear it. It was a fun one to make.
Great video
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Always fantastic. (: Thanks, sir!
Thank you!
Nice!
Thank you for the history class and for a great recipe for a great cocktail! I already missed you !! I hope you are very well and greetings from Taco Town !!
Haha. Thank you. I'm glad to hear you liked it.
Awesome video! Well done! 👍
Cheers! Thanks!
Fabulous video!
Glad to hear it. Cheers!
Come on history lesson! If anyone is interested, please watch " Black in Latin America" by Dr. Henry Louis Gates.
Thanks for the recommendation. Cheers!
A great drink to sip while listening to King Diamond's 1998 classic.....Voodoo!
(Also, will the Voodoo In Exile appear on here at a later date?)
Not sure about the Voodoo in Exile. Maybe... I really like it. But if I'm going to do a proper video, it won't be for a while. I need a voodoo break after this video. Haha.
Bravo!
worth the wait, love the history lesson as well.
Thanks! Haha. It was originally supposed to be a short one, but that didn't happen.
Love the video! Would I be able to substitute the AOC Martinique with a Clément Martinique or any other rum? Or would that completely throw off the drink?
AOC isn’t a brand. It just means that it’s certified. Yeah. Any aged Martinique Rhum Agricole will work just fine. Clement, La Favorite, Rhum JM, Neisson. Those brands will all work. I used a lightly aged Rhum (Ambre or ESB), but the original recipe originally called for a Vieux.
Hopefully that rambling response answered your question. Haha.
Ah okay. I guess I was just asking if it had to be a dark Martinique Agricole or if you could use a clear Martinique Agricole.
But thanks for the response. I’ve been getting into Tiki myself and I love watching your videos and trying to create some of these. I already went through the Smugglers Cove book and have been looking for some new cocktails. Thinking about grabbing Beachbum Berry’s Sippin Safari next
The new Sippin Safari and Potions of the Caribbean are great! Really detailed and really well told. You'll see how much I've been ripping Berry off when you read those. Haha.
I plan on swapping out Duquesne for Denizen 8 in this one.
Nice! Let me know how it turns out.
Hey there, since you use a Lewis bag, how do you clean it if you get bitters or booze on it?
Wash it on delicate in the washing machine then hang dry.
Thanks! Cheers!
You ok Tiki Master?.. You've been MIA for quite awhile.. Do you need bail money or anything?.. Hope all is well..
All well. It's just been a super busy couple of months. Be back as soon as I can...
I don't know about voodoo, but I believe in destiny.
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@@DistinguishedSpirits very dense drink in deed!
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12.12. Where are the glasses from please?
For sure. The glass is from Trader Vic’s.
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Cheers!
Distinguished Spirits thank you.
What about making your own allspice?
Go for it!
Made a batch for myself, used 45 g of allspice berries and Appleton 12 years. After 5th day added crushed by my mallet nutmeg and a cinnamon stick. After let it staying for 8 more days (couldn’t wait no more lol), I used 1:1 Demerara simple syrup in equal amount of “allspiced” rum, cleared from spice pieces by coffee filter... and boom-ba-da-boom.
The strong hit of spices from the bottle and distinctive herbal bitterness of the allspice berries with thin trace of cinnamon and nutmeg. Also caramel structure of Demerara syrup helped a lot.
After trying it in Trader Vic’s Grog I went all-in and made my fall-winter Negroni and boulevardier... but I replaced vermouth with homemade allspice dram in equal measurements (it could’be less of allspice, judge by the taste), and to even the bitterness and sweetness I used Aperol, as a herbal bitter. Just try this one and you won’t regret. If Negroni changes its skin to the fall-styled, boulevardier makes a few steps for distinguished and rich drink, that makes it super special.
Wish u’re gonna try it! And let me know, how it worked up!
What mic do you use?
A crappy one. Haha.
Doesn't a half oz of pimento dram overpower the entire drink? I can hardly handle a 1/4 oz in my rum punch!
I thought the same thing when I first read the recipe. It surprisingly works in this one. Give it a go with the 1/2 oz and let me know what you think.
Where can I buy tiki mugs with out going to a bar
It's available on the 3 Dots site: bit.ly/2YfQUS5
If it's out of stock, just check back. Their availability on certain mugs comes and goes sometimes.
Cheers!
Personally, I love your content man. But I have to speculate: the allure of the channel is waning as you use ingredients no one has.
Like sure, throw something with chartreuse or campari my way. I'm game. But who the heck has Pimento Dram or Aged AOC in their cabinet they will ever use again?
Just a thought my friend.