# Dark & Stormy

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-stormy/752438>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 17, 2016, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-stormy/752438 "2016-04-17T03:44:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
**Page:** 3

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**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-stormy/752438/41 "2016-04-25T17:39:45Z")

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All you need is dark rum and ginger beer.  
Finding good ginger beer is surprisingly difficult.

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**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-stormy/752438/42 "2016-04-25T20:02:22Z")

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> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> I prefer mine even weaker. Somewhere around 3:1 or 4:1 (I don’t do exact measurements).

Yeah, I use the whole can of Barritts, because it’s awesome. So, being lazy, I do the can of beer, two shots of booze and one shot of lime juice. And since I keep the ginger beer in the fridge, I don’t need no steenking ice. I like that it simultaneously relaxes me and perks me up.

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**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-stormy/752438/43 "2016-04-25T20:05:56Z")

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I make these, but use Gosling’s Black Seal (dark) Rum, Ginger Beer and garnish with a lemon. It’s my second-favorite rum drink, but easier to make at home than my favorite (Mai Tai).

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**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-stormy/752438/44 "2016-04-25T20:07:49Z")

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> [@Barbarian](#):
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> All you need is dark rum and ginger beer.  
> Finding good ginger beer is surprisingly difficult.

and a lemon garnish. To be fair, on one occasion I didn’t have any lemons and had to garnish my Dark & Stormy with a prune, so I _suppose_ you could call the lemon “optional” (but the drink is WAY better with it)

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**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-stormy/752438/45 "2016-04-25T20:54:45Z")

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This is not a new cocktail. Been around a long time, and **does not include** spiced rum, dark rum only.

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