A small note for those who want to play bartender at home: I've prepared a ready-made ingredient list with everything required. Now let me tell you how it all began.
The Dark 'N' Stormy is not just a cocktail but the unofficial drink of Bermuda. Born around 1900, after the Gosling Brothers began distilling their legendary Gosling's Black Seal rum starting in 1860 and local bartenders married it with ginger beer, itself a byproduct of the British Navy sailors. It's said that a sailor described its color as "the color of a cloud that only a fool or a dead man would sail under" — hence the name.
In an extremely rare case of legal protection for a cocktail, Gosling's has registered the name "Dark 'N' Stormy" as a trademark and requires the use of Black Seal rum for it to legally be called as such. Any other rum and it's just a dark storm. A cocktail that's island marketing genius in liquid form.
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