The Black and Stormy

Name: The Black and Stormy
Total time: PT0D0H0M
Yield: makes 1 Cocktail
Ingredients: 2 oz. Mount Gay Black Barrel rum; 1 oz. freshly squeezed lime juice; 1 oz. simple syrup; 1 oz. fresh ginger juice (blend clean ginger root with the same amount of water, then strain through a cheese cloth); Good-quality ginger beer

Serves
makes 1 Cocktail

LAURA SANT

This recipe for a modified Dark and Stormy comes to us from the Cliff Restaurant in Barbados. The addition of fresh ginger juice to the drink provides a kick of clean heat for an especially invigorating cocktail.

Ingredients

2 oz. Mount Gay Black Barrel rum
1 oz. freshly squeezed lime juice
1 oz. simple syrup
1 oz. fresh ginger juice (blend clean ginger root with the same amount of water, then strain through a cheese cloth)
Good-quality ginger beer

Instructions

Step 1

Combine rum, lime juice, simple syrup and ginger juice in a mixing glass; set aside. Fill a highball glass with ice and add rum and syrup mixture. Top off with ginger beer and stir before serving.