Name: Spiced Dark and Stormy
Yield: 1
Ingredients: 30 ml Captain Morgan Orginal Spiced Rum or Myers’s Rum Original Dark; 30 ml Havana Club Añejo Especial rum; 10 ml lime juice; 1 tsp brown sugar; Dash of Angostura Bitters; To serve: Bundaberg Ginger Beer; To garnish: thinly sliced dried fig and whole star anise

A classier version of the common Queensland tipple of rum and ginger beer from Matthew Bax at Melbourne’s Der Raum, Gourmet’s Bar of the Year.

Ingredients

30 ml Captain Morgan Orginal Spiced Rum or Myers’s Rum Original Dark

30 ml Havana Club Añejo Especial rum

10 ml lime juice

1 tsp brown sugar

Dash of Angostura Bitters

To serve: Bundaberg Ginger Beer

To garnish: thinly sliced dried fig and whole star anise

Method

Main

1.Half-fill a highball glass with crushed ice. Stir in rums, lime juice and brown sugar, add a little more crushed ice, then add bitters and top with ginger beer to taste. Garnish with dried fig slices and star anise, and serve.

Matthew Bax

Styling by Geraldine Muñoz

Ingredients

Method

Main

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