Dark 'N' Stormy (Difford's recipe)

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Serve in

a Collins glass...
1½ fl oz Bacardi Carta Negra Superior Black Rum
⅔ fl oz Freshly squeezed lime juice
⅓ fl oz Sugar syrup (2 sugar to 1 water)
3 fl oz Three Cents Ginger Beer
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How to make:

POUR ingredients into ice-filled glass and briefly stir. OR pour ginger beer and, if to your tastes, lime juice into ice-filled glass, then float rum.

Garnish:

Lime wedge

AKA:

Dark 'n' Stormy

Comment:

A Daiquiri made with pungent dark rum, topped and made refreshing with spicy ginger beer. Part of the Mule family - but is distinctive due to the strong flavour of the rum.

About:

The national drink of Bermuda, where ginger beer and Gosling's rum (a dark rum) are produced.

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