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Saturday, July 2. 2011

Summer Drinks: Dark 'n Stormy

The real cocktail of Bermuda:


2 oz Gosling's Black Seal rum
4 oz ginger beer
Lots of ice and a twist of lime


Best consumed on a Bermuda beach or the veranda of the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club after sailing down from Newport.

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Don't forget a wedge (not a slice) of lime and plenty of ice!
#1 Neil on 2010-06-26 15:03 (Reply)
Use Barritt's Ginger Beer, which may now be Gosling's, from Bermuda - that wussy Jamaican stuff doesn't measure up.

Bermudians (and I) prefer it without any ice whatsoever. Just chill the ingredients. Ginger beer, like real beer, loses much of its essence if it's watered down with melted ice.
#2 Gwynne on 2010-06-26 15:28 (Reply)
Sounds interesting and worth a try. But it would probably knock me on my butt.
#3 feeblemind on 2010-06-26 19:55 (Reply)
These are delicious but deceivingly strong. Enjoy with caution!
#4 tamdar on 2010-06-27 10:11 (Reply)
Well it sounds absolutely repulsive...
#5 juandos on 2010-06-27 10:27 (Reply)
Gosling's now has diet ginger beer. I'm [type II] diabetic, so I'm using that. Don't know if anyone working on diet rum, though.
#6 steve hendry on 2010-06-27 11:23 (Reply)
We discovered Dark 'n Stormys after a sailboat race to Bermuda and have been enjoying them ever since. Barritt's (now Gosling's) ginger beer is the way to go. We garnish it with a swizzle stick cut from a piece of ginger (tough to do with taller glasses as ginger doesn't tend to allow long straight slices) and a wedge of lime.
#7 Hugh on 2010-06-27 12:15 (Reply)
No, no, no, you all have it wrong. Use dark Crucian rum (made of course, on St Croix). Delicious.
#8 birdie on 2010-07-09 18:29 (Reply)
Very deceptive drink, but delicious. Kind of like Long Island Iced Tea, which sounds innocent, but has a total of something like six or seven ounces of hard liquor in it. Must be six. I've heard that seven ounces of hard liquor consumed within a ten minute period can take you out of this world. Permanently.

Marianne
#9 Marianne Matthews on 2011-07-02 18:33 (Reply)
Always looking for new drinks based on rum - thanks!
#10 Ben David on 2011-07-03 06:23 (Reply)
No, no, no, you have it all wrong again. The Rum Swizzle is the real cocktail of Bermuda by a large margin.

Swizzle Inn Rum Swizzle
Makes 6 drinks

4 oz. Gosling's Black Seal rum
4 oz. Gosling's Barbados rum
juice of 2 lemons
5 oz. pineapple juice
5 oz. orange juice
2 oz. Gosling's falernum, or sugar syrup
6 dashes Angostura bitters

Mix in pitcher with cracked ice. Stir vigorously until a frothy head appears. Strain in cocktail glasses.

Having spent over 365 days in BDA between 76 and 88 I managed to become very familiar with my good friend Gosling from St. David's to Ireland Island and I saw far more folks enjoying Swizzles than D&S.
#11 Capt. Craig on 2011-07-03 09:34 (Reply)
No no no, you have it all wrong.

Not really, I love Dark and Stormy cocktails, exactly as above. I just wanted to join the argument, lots of fussy folks here, what's one more? For my part, I'll leave the original recipe alone, but recommend Stewart's Ginger Beer if you want some variety. Lots of ginger 'bite'!

http://www.drinkstewarts.com/flavors.aspx
#12 Carl H on 2011-07-03 10:13 (Reply)
When you run out of ginger beer (not exactly your every day staple), enjoy my version of this, called Pirate Booty--mix your dark rum with root beer. Pretty damn nice.
#13 gurk on 2011-07-03 14:26 (Reply)

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