Cocktail · Medium strength

Dark 'n' Stormy

Dark rum over spicy ginger beer — a squall you'll want to sail into.

How to order it: Goslings if you're traditional, any funky dark rum if you're not.

The story

Bermuda's national drink, born — by local telling — after World War I, when ginger beer brewed at a Royal Navy officers' club met Gosling's Black Seal rum, the island's blackstrap pride since the 1800s. Sailors' lore says the drink earned its name from the color of a cloud only a fool would sail under. The Goslings, who have heard every version, did something almost no one else in cocktail history managed: they trademarked the name, making the Dark 'n' Stormy one of the only cocktails that legally requires a specific rum. It endures because the formula is weather itself — black rum rolling over ginger spice like a front coming in.

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