el nova grog

3/4 oz Lime Juice
3/4 oz Grapefruit Juice
3/4 oz Pineapple Juice
1 oz Passion Fruit Syrup
2 oz Mount Gay Eclipse Rum (R.L. Seale 10 Year)
1/4 oz Don's Spices (1 bsp vanilla syrup + 1 bsp Hamilton's Allspice Dram)
2 dash Bitters (Angostura)
1 oz Club Soda

Shake all but the soda water with ice, strain into a pineapple mug (Tiki mug) containing the club soda, fill with crushed ice, and garnish with pineapple leaves, mint sprig, and orchid (freshly grated nutmeg).

Two Mondays ago, I decided to make a drink that EL Nova posted on Instagram about his nameless Superbowl creation from the day before. It looked tasty, and I replied how it needed a name and how it looked "inspired by [Trader] Vic's Navy Grog, Siboney, and Old Yellow Stain, so it seems like a winner."
Since it still lacked a name, I dubbed this one after the creator, and he seemed to approve. In the mug, the Grog shared a woody spice from the nutmeg garnish I used over tropical fruit aromas from the mix below. Next, the sip was mostly the grapefruit and pineapple combination with some of the passion fruit creeping in, but most of the passion fruit showed itself on the swallow along with the rum and allspice flavors and a pineapple, vanilla, and clove finish.