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Highball · Party · Summer
Dark ‘N’ Stormy
Ginger beer first, dark rum floated on top so it sinks slowly. Spicy, dark, and better with a lime wedge squeezed in.
- Base
- Rum
- Glass
- Highball glass
- Method
- Build
- Strength
- 9% ABV
Ingredients
Servings
- 60 mlGoslings Rum
- 100 mlGinger Beer
How to make
Technique
Build · 10–15sBuilding straight in the glass keeps it simple and preserves any fizz.
- In a highball glass filled with ice pour the ginger beer and top floating with the Rum.
Serve
Glass
Highball glassAlso fine: Collins glass, Tall tumbler
Garnish
Garnish with a lime wedge or slice.Wedge if you want the juice, slice if you want it to look neat.
Taste & nutrition
9%ABV
195kcal
1.27Drinks
StrengthLight
Sweet to dryOff-dry
Estimated from ingredient amounts and assumed ABVs — not a lab measurement.
Good to know
- Add the fizzy mixer last so it keeps its bubbles.
History
Yearearly 1900s
PlaceBermuda
Created byGosling’s (trademarked)
Bermuda's signature highball layers dark rum over spicy ginger beer, its stormy name capturing the dark rum clouding up through the fizz. It dates to the early 1900s, when Gosling's rum and local ginger beer were both close at hand. Gosling's has since trademarked the drink, specifying its Black Seal rum. Squeeze in lime and you have a Bermudian classic.
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