Highball · c.1900
Dark 'n' Stormy
Bermuda's own: ginger beer with a dark rum float that stays on top.
Specification
| Ginger beer | 120 ml |
| Gosling's Black Seal rum | 50 ml, floated |
| Fresh lime juice | 10 ml |
| Lime wedge | 1 |
Method
- 01Fill a highball with ice and add the lime juice.
- 02Pour in the ginger beer, leaving room at the top.
- 03Float the dark rum gently over the back of a spoon.
- 04Serve unstirred so the drinker mixes it themselves.
Where it comes from
A Bermudian sailors' drink from the early twentieth century, and one of the very few cocktails with a registered trademark — Gosling's owns the name, which is why bars are careful about how they list it.
If you change one thing: The float only holds if the rum is poured slowly onto a spoon touching the surface. Rushing it collapses the layers into brown soup.