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Dark 'n' Stormy

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Highball

Bermuda's trademarked storm-cloud highball, a float of Black Seal over Stormy ginger beer.

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Ingredients

  • Gosling's Stormy Ginger Beer (6 oz)
  • Gosling's Black Seal rum (2 oz)
  • lime wedge (1)

Instructions

  1. Pour Gosling's Stormy Ginger Beer into a tall glass (highball or collins) filled with ice.
  2. Float Gosling's Black Seal rum on top.
  3. Stir gently until the rum forms a "storm cloud" pattern descending into the ginger beer.
  4. Garnish with a lime wedge.

Sources

  1. Gosling's Rum, "Dark 'n Stormy." https://goslings.com/recipes/dark-n-stormy/ (accessed 2026-05-03), the trademark holder's own official spec, the Black-Seal-and-Stormy-Ginger-Beer requirement, and the "storm cloud" pour technique. ↩
  2. Curtis, And a Bottle of Rum (2006), Bermuda / Gosling's chapter, places the early-20th-century Bermuda Royal Naval Officers' Club ginger beer factory in the drink's prehistory. ↩