Name: Dark 'N' Stormy (Difford's recipe)
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 50 ml Dark/black rum; 20 ml Lime juice; 10 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); 2 dash Aromatic bitters; 90 ml Ginger beer

Dark 'N' Stormy (Difford's recipe)
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Ingredients:
1 ²⁄₃ oz	Dark/black/blackstrap rum
²⁄₃ oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₃ oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
2 dash	Angostura Aromatic Bitters
3 oz	Thomas Henry Ginger Beer

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Collins glass.
Prepare garnish of lime wedge.
SHAKE first 4 ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into ice-filled glass whilst also pouring ginger beer.
Garnish with lime wedge on rim.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

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 assertive flavour of the dark rum.

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AKA: Dark 'n' Stormy

Variant:

Simpler Dark 'N' Stormy Highball

History:

The national drink of Bermuda, where ginger beer and Gosling's rum (a brand of dark rum often associated with this cocktail) are produced.

Who first made or named the Dark 'n' Stormy is unknown, but legend has it that it was created, or at least first enjoyed, by British sailors on shore leave in Bermuda after World War I.

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Nutrition:

One serving of Dark 'N' Stormy (Difford's recipe) contains 204 calories

Alcohol content:

1.1 standard drinks
8.74% alc./vol. (8.74° proof)
14.9 grams of pure alcohol

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Martin Mangold

16th April at 20:54

Made it with Wood's old navy – technically not what the receipt asks for, but a match made in heaven nonetheless!

Simon Sedgley

30th September 2024 at 04:07

Quite summer sunny on the first few sips, with a change in the weather as one ventures deeper into the glass. We love a good storm. But, like other commenters, we dialled back the ginger beer; in our case to 50ml to match the rum.

Frederic D.

16th August 2024 at 23:03

Definitely the best version of the DnS for me, the lime and sugar make a huge difference here, an excellent drink for a summer evening. I prefer using Reed's ginger beer, as I find its stronger ginger kick works well against the lime.

Chris Haley

2nd July 2024 at 03:32

Q (maybe others I'm not aware of) makes a tropical ginger beer that goes great with this drink. The black rum is very much "at home" with the mango and passion fruit essences in this particular ginger beer. They were made for each other.

Morten Carlsbaek

24th May 2024 at 17:31

This is the best Dark 'N' Stormy. So much more interesting and fullfilling than Goslings' own recipe, which is the same as the simpler highball version linked to above. Lime, sugar syrup and Angostura do their Caribian magic vibe with Goslings Black seal.

Avery Garnett

1st May 2024 at 18:21

a very nice drink; a "dark" and "stormy" (I used worthy park 109) highball that is very nice but nothing more than you'd expect.

John CARR

12th February 2024 at 10:47

Used home made ginger beer following Klaus St Rainer’s recipe, and this was truly a delight. One part fresh ginger juice, 1.5-2 parts sugar, 3 lemon, 10 sparkling mineral/soda water. Really 4.5 if not 5 stars.

Yorey C

22nd December 2023 at 13:25

Gosling's | Gosling's ging | Super Lemon Juice ... Good with SLJ at 75-80% called-for ratios. tried also with Myer's. more distinctive but gosling's is more balanced

Russell Clark

20th November 2023 at 22:41

Had this tonight, using 2 rums, Havana club 7 year aged and a botanical infused golden rum, Anno lady Franklin, my ginger beer of choice is Palmers, a Dorset based brewery's ginger beer (I highly reccomend).
I did add a dash of paychauds bitters as well as the angostura, because I had a hankering for their flavour, but absolutely cracking!

Patrick Brady

17th September 2023 at 23:05

Delicious. A definite improvement over the original highball, so worth the extra effort. I made mine with Fentimans Ginger Beer and the traditional Goslings Black Seal.

I chased it later with a Goslings Rum Old Fashioned (which I quite enjoyed) since dark rum has been a bit of a mystery ingredient until now - just go easy on the sugar.