Session Dark ‘n’ Stormy

Adapted from Session Cocktails by Drew Lazor and the Editors of PUNCH

photo: Lizzie Munro
low proof dark 'n' stormy recipe

In this low-proof spin on the two-ingredient Dark ‘n’ Stormy, Amaro Montenegro plays the role of the base spirit while a hit of blackstrap rum delivers the familiar caramel notes of the original.

Reprinted with permission from Session Cocktails by Drew Lazor and the Editors of PUNCH, copyright © 2018. Published by Ten Speed Press, a division of Penguin Random House.

Ingredients

Serving: 1

  • 3/4 ounce blackstrap rum
  • 3/4 ounce blackstrap rum
  • 1 ounce Amaro Montenegro
  • 1 ounce Amaro Montenegro
  • 1 ounce lime juice
  • 1 ounce lime juice
  • 4 ounces ginger beer, preferably Fever-Tree
  • 4 ounces ginger beer, preferably Fever-Tree

Garnish: lime wedge

Directions
  1. Pour the rum, amaro and lime juice into a Collins glass filled with ice, then top with ginger beer.
  2. Garnish with a lime wedge.

Tagged: Amaro Montenegro, blackstrap rum, session cocktails

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