Dark 'n' Stormy
Dark rum poured over spicy ginger beer for a fiery, refreshing highball with a bite.
Base
rum
Glassware
Highball glass
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Ingredients
- 2 oz dark rum
- 4 oz ginger beer
- 0.5 oz fresh lime juice
- Lime wedge, to garnish
Instructions
- 1Fill a highball glass with ice.
- 2Add lime juice and ginger beer.
- 3Float the dark rum on top and garnish with a lime wedge.
Origin & Story
Bermuda, early 1900s
Sailors in Bermuda mixed the newly bottled Gosling's Black Seal rum with ginger beer, and the fiery-dark color of the drink reportedly prompted one sailor to say it was 'the color of a cloud only a fool or a dead man would sail under.'
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