Dark and Stormy
Ingredients
2 ounces dark rum
3 ounces ginger beer
1/2 ounce lime juice
Glass Type: Collins glass
Instructions
Combine the rum,* the ginger beer,** and the lime juice, which is optional, in a tall glass full of ice cubes. Stir. The key here is nailing the precise ratio between the spice of the ginger beer and the richness of the rum. Depending on brands of each used, you may want to play around with the proportions. No true Bermudian would put lime juice in his D & S, but here in the States that’s how it comes (perhaps the Moscow Mule has something to do with that). Frankly, we prefer it with the lime — but we’re not Bermudian, now, are we? In fact, we’ve never even been to the "still-vexed Bermoothes," as Shakespeare calls ‘em (sorry — couldn’t help slipping that in).
* Bermuda’s own Gosling’s Black Seal is of course the preferred brand, but anything dark and funky will work.
** If you can find Barritt’s, it’s from Bermuda. If not, anything will work as long as it’s ginger beer and not ginger ale.
