Dark 'n' Stormy
Bermuda in two parts
A punchy two-ingredient highball where Gosling's dark rum floats atop spicy ginger beer. Bold, fiery, and satisfying — the drink equivalent of a thunderstorm rolling in over the ocean.
Ingredients
- 2 oz Dark Rum
- 3 oz Ginger Beer
- 1/2 oz Fresh Lime Juice optional
Method
Fill a highball glass with ice. Pour ginger beer over the ice. Slowly float Gosling's Black Seal rum on top by pouring over the back of a barspoon. Squeeze a lime wedge and drop it in.
Legendary Bermudian drink created in the 1920s when British naval personnel combined local ginger beer with Gosling Brothers' Black Seal rum. No documented individual creator. Originally paired with Barritt's ginger beer (founded 1874); Gosling Brothers later created its own ginger beer after the partnership dissolved. The sailor's naming quote—describing the drink's appearance as 'the colour of a cloud only a fool or dead man would sail under'—is well-documented in tradition. Gosling Brothers registered the drink name as a US trademark September 17, 1991, and enforces use of Gosling's Black Seal rum as a specification. Per IBA (New Era list); Difford's Guide; PUNCH; Gosling's official site; The Bermudian Magazine.
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