Dark & Stormy: The Easiest Great CocktailYou're Not Making Enough

Rum · Built · Spicy

INGREDIENTS

— 2 oz dark rum (Gosling's Black Seal is traditional; Plantation Original Dark works too)

— 4-6 oz ginger beer (Fever-Tree or Fentimans — not ginger ale)

— Fresh lime juice to taste

— Ice

METHOD

1. Fill a tall glass with ice.

2. Add ginger beer.

3. Float the dark rum on top — pour it slowly over the back of a spoon.

4. Squeeze in fresh lime and stir gently once.

5. Drink through the rum float for the full experience.

GARNISH

— Lime wedge

Note: The rum float is not just visual — drinking through it gives you full rum flavor first, which transitions into the spicy ginger as you go. It's designed that way.

Liquor Depot Tip: Ginger beer quality matters enormously in this drink. Fever-Tree has more ginger heat than most; Fentimans is more botanical. Both are excellent and we stock both