Dark & Stormy

With company coming over I decide to go with the very simplest recipe in the book the Dark & Stormy. This is a variation on one of my favorites - the bourbon and ginger ale. I like really sharp ginger ale and the "dark rum" seems like it might be like my precious Indian Old Monk. I head over to World Market today to pick-up some Ginger Beer. I get both varieties, so I can use the one with he strongest ginger flavor. While I'm there I also pick up four martini glasses and four high balls. The martini glasses have large ball bottoms instead of the stems. They look kind of cool, but also seem way less likely to tip.

I take a taste of the dark rum with my friend Mark. I also grab the gold rum for contrast. The dark rum is, as expected, a lot richer. It actually feels like it is made from molasses. Then I grab the Pimm's and the yellow chartreuse. We have a tasting session. He comments that the yellow chartreuse tastes exactly like it looks. This is true. And not the insult that one might expect from a yellow colored liqueur.

I mix up the dark rum, the preferred Gosling's, with the ginger beer. Sadly, the mix comes up a little short of expectations. It's fine. I'd drink it again, but it's not a step up from the bourbon version and, well, I'd just hoped for more. I had a really ginger-y ginger beer in London recently and perhaps that would punch it up a bit. If I can find a really strong ginger beer, I might give it another go. In the meantime it will retreat back into anonymity.

Rating: 3; Difficulty: Very easy