Dark ’n’ Stormy

The star of the buck cocktail category.

photo: Daniel Krieger
dark n stormy cocktail recipe

This simple mix of dark rum and ginger beer over ice has roots in colonial Bermuda, where England’s Royal Navy opened a ginger beer plant in the late 19th century. The drink was traditionally made with a dark, heavy Demerara-style rum, which was part of the sailors’ daily rations. A note: Gosling Brothers bought the trademark to the Dark ’n’ Stormy name and recipe, so Gosling’s Black Seal rum is the official rum of record for this drink.

Ingredients

Serving: 1

  • 2 ounces rum, blackstrap
  • 2 ounces rum, blackstrap
  • 1 ounce lime juice
  • 1 ounce lime juice
  • 4 ounces ginger beer (preferably something dry and spicy like Fentiman's or Fever Tree)
  • 4 ounces ginger beer (preferably something dry and spicy like Fentiman's or Fever Tree)

Garnish: lime wheel

Directions
  1. In a Collins glass, add rum and lime juice.
  2. Add ice and top with ginger beer.
  3. Garnish with a lime wheel.

Tagged: ginger beer, Gosling's Black Seal, Royal Navy, rum

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