Dark and Stormy

Taste

Two ounces of aged rum, half an ounce of lime, and ginger beer over ice. Molasses against ginger heat, with lime cutting across both. Rounder and darker than the same build in vodka, and a lime wheel on the rim.

History

Bermuda's national drink, and nobody knows who first poured it. The story is British sailors on shore leave after the First World War. Gosling Brothers, a Bermuda merchant house since James Gosling landed at St George's in 1806 and renamed when Ambrose joined, sells both the Black Seal rum and a ginger beer, and was among the first to trademark a cocktail, in the late 1970s. That registration is why the trademarked spelling names Gosling's rum specifically, and why a generic pour goes under a plainer name. The generic pour here is two ounces of aged rum, half an ounce of lime, and ginger beer over ice, with a lime wheel.

• Difford's Guide, Dark N Stormy (Difford's recipe)
• Difford's Guide, Trademarking cocktails

Same shape, other bottles

The Highball family, with the bottle that changed.

• Gin Rickeygin and soda water for aged rum and ginger beer
• Kentucky Mulebourbon for aged rum
• Mezcal Mulemezcal for aged rum
• Moscow Mulevodka for aged rum
• Gin & Tonicgin and tonic water for aged rum and ginger beer
• Scotch and Sodascotch and soda water for aged rum and ginger beer