Grog

Grog is a term for an alcoholic drink, most specifically the diluted rum ration historically issued to sailors in the British Royal Navy. The practice began in seventeen forty when Admiral Edward Vernon ordered that sailors' daily rum ration be cut with water to reduce drunkenness aboard ship, and the resulting mixed drink took the nickname grog from Vernon's own nickname, Old Grogram, after the grogram cloak he was known to wear. The Royal Navy continued issuing a rum ration, by then usually mixed with water in some form, for over two centuries before formally ending the practice in nineteen seventy. The word grog later broadened to describe diluted or low quality spirits more generally.