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Old 05-02-2008, 02:23 PM   #1
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The official long drink of summer 2008

Two years ago I drowned myself in Pimm's Cups. Last year it was The Mojito. This summer

<drum roll>

The Dark 'n' Stormy

Fill a tall glass with ice
Fill half way with dark rum (Goslings, Zaya, Cana 7, or the like)
Top with ginger beer (not Schwepp's Ginger Ale)
Squeeze in a lime wedge and discard, squeeze in another lime wedge and toss in.

Wash, rinse, repeat.
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Old 05-02-2008, 03:46 PM   #2
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One of my favs. Though I do use regular ginger ale when I don't feel like breathing fire.
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Old 05-03-2008, 04:36 AM   #3
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Here'a another variation to try...

Get your blender/food processor ready.
Dump in some tinned pineapple (and a bit of the juice if you so wish).
Add some fresh ginger (peeled).
Add sugar or (for an interesting variation) maple syrup to taste - you'll need the sweetness here to counterbalance the heat of the ginger.
Top up with your favourite not-too-expensive dark rum.
Blend.

Have an empty bottle at hand.
Pour the blended contents into the empty bottle until it's about one-third full.
Then fill the bottle up with more of the rum and place it in the fridge.

To serve:
Take some relatively large cocktail glasses or tumblers and drop a couple of ice cubes into each of them (I like to mix freshly chopped mint leaves into the ice cubes before I freeze them).
Pour a couple of ounces of the rum mixture into each glass.
Top up with cold ginger ale and stir gently.
Garnish each glass with a fresh whole mint leaf and (optional) a green Maraschino cherry.

Guaranteed to refresh!
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Old 05-08-2008, 12:22 PM   #4
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Dark and Stormy is a once in awhile drink for me...no way I could do them all summer long.
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Old 05-08-2008, 01:30 PM   #5
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I'm going to have to save these recipes for future referance.

Going to be hard to break the Mojito habit. The mint is already a foot high!
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Old 05-08-2008, 06:18 PM   #6
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Karl turned me onto this while we were in NOLA a couple of weekends ago. Easy to drink and not too sweet!
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Old 05-12-2008, 08:31 AM   #7
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Re: The official long drink of summer 2008

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Originally Posted by univibe88
Two years ago I drowned myself in Pimm's Cups. Last year it was The Mojito. This summer

<drum roll>

The Dark 'n' Stormy

Fill a tall glass with ice
Fill half way with dark rum (Goslings, Zaya, Cana 7, or the like)
Top with ginger beer (not Schwepp's Ginger Ale)
Squeeze in a lime wedge and discard, squeeze in another lime wedge and toss in.

Wash, rinse, repeat.
Bought some Goslings this weekend. Not very exciting straight, so I'm going to have to try this one out....
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Old 05-12-2008, 03:11 PM   #8
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definitely going to have to give the dark'n'stormy a try


how's it with a smoke?
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Old 05-12-2008, 05:37 PM   #9
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I think it goes great with a smoke.
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Dang, now I gotta go buy some dark rum.
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