Name: Dark and Stormy
Prep time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Ingredients: ice; 2 oz dark rum; 1/2 oz lime juice; 5 oz ginger beer (alcoholic or non-alcoholic); lime wedges (for garnish)

This Dark and Stormy Cocktail is made with 3 ingredients poured over a glass of ice. This simple, refreshing, and spicy cocktail will be in your hand in 5 minutes or less! Pour, stir, sip, smile.

two collins glasses filled with dark and stormy and garnished with a lime wedge

It’s cocktail time again! I’ve been digging deep into releasing my inner bartender lately. I think it’s working! This week we have a classic dark and stormy. Reminiscent of a Moscow mule, this cocktail is made with ginger beer and dark rum rather than vodka.

It’s a sweet, easy drinking cocktail that, despite its name, is perfect for refreshment on a hot day. Ginger beer is always a big hit in my house. Poured over a glass of ice to sip on with dinner is such a nice treat.

How did the dark and stormy get its name?

This cocktail was crafted hand-in-hand with Goslings Black Seal rum and Barritt’s ginger beer. It was born in the Caribbean where rum drinking sailors were copious.

Legend has it the name comes from a WWI vet turned sailor who inspected the color of the drink and described it as the “color of a cloud only a fool or a dead man would sail under.”

Ingredients

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Dark Rum – This recipe will also be great made with spiced rum or whiskey.
Lime – For fresh lime juice and wedges as garnish.
Ginger beer – You can use alcoholic or non-alcoholic.

It’s not typical to mix lime juice into a dark and stormy, but I can’t do without that bright fresh citrus to compliment the ginger. Once you try a sip, I think you’ll agree with me!

two shots side by side one of pouring rum into a collins glass and one pouring ginger beer in the same glass

How to make a dark and stormy

Fill a collins glass with ice.
Pour the rum and lime juice into the glass and top with ginger beer. Stir gently with a spoon, garnish with a lime wedge, and serve.

Bartending from home doesn’t get any easier than this! Grab a big bottle of rum so that you can enjoy a dark and stormy any time you want.

a dark and stormy cocktail in a collins glass

How to serve it

I mixd my dark and stormy up in a tall collins glass, but it’ll work in a highball glass as well. Heck, drink it out of a coconut for all I care!

I mixed my cocktails to serve, but if you pour the ingredients nice and slowly over the ice, you can layer them to create a really neat effect. Some restaurants will serve their dark and stormy cocktails this way.

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Dark and Stormy

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Prep: 5 mins

Cook: 0 mins

Total: 5 mins

Author: Joanna Cismaru

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This Dark and Stormy Cocktail is made with 3 ingredients poured over a glass of ice. This simple, refreshing, and spicy cocktail will be in your hand in 5 minutes or less! Pour, stir, sip, smile.

Ingredients

US Customary – Metric

Instructions

Fill a collins glass with ice.
Pour the rum and lime juice into the glass and top with ginger beer. Gently stir the cocktail with a spoon. Garnish with a lime wedge and serve.