Meanwhile, on the other end of the island, the British Royal Navy was bottling their own ginger beer, presumably to help any more novice sailors with sea-sickness. In 1860 the Gosling company started selling rum-they don’t distill, but source from other places, then blend, age and bottle themselves-which started being referred to as “black seal,” for the black wax they’d use to seal the bottles. One of those things was James Gosling, an Englishman who, in 1806, was aiming to sail to America but got waylaid on Bermuda, found it suited him and decided to stay. It’s a truism about Bermuda that things tend to get lost there. And then there’s the trick of pouring the lime and ginger beer first and then layering the black rum on top to look like, as the lore goes, “the color of a cloud only a fool or a dead man would sail under.” And there’s also this to consider: As far as flavors go, the Dark ‘n Stormy is really, really good. Something about the spice of a good ginger beer that makes it feel more adult than Coca-Cola or orange juice. As “Dark ‘n Stormy” has one less syllable than “rum and ginger beer,” the name would seem at least semi-justified on the grounds of expediency alone and it would be tempting to leave it there.īut there’s something about the Dark ‘n Stormy that persistently elevates it above its would-be two-ingredient peers. How much cranberry? Literally no one cares.Īt first blush, it would seem that the Dark ‘n Stormy is one of these. Same with a Screwdriver (vodka and OJ) and a Cape Codder (vodka and cranberry)-there’s no recipe. While an Old Fashioned has specific ingredients in specific measures with a specific way to prepare it, a rum and coke is just a rum and coke, whether you call it a “Cuba Libre” or not. ![]() There are a few entries in the world of mixed drinks that aren’t cocktails so much as code names.
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