Thunderhead Highball

Name: Thunderhead Highball
Prep time: 3 min
Total time: 3 min
Yield: 1 highball
Ingredients: 4 oz spicy ginger beer, chilled (120 ml); 0.5 oz fresh lime juice (15 ml); 2 oz dark rum (60 ml); 2 dashes aromatic bitters; 1 lime wheel; 1 quart spicy ginger beer, chilled (960 ml); 0.5 cup fresh lime juice (120 ml); 2 cups dark rum (480 ml)

Three ingredients and no equipment. Pour the rum last, slowly, and it hangs at the top of the glass and drifts down through the ginger beer. Hand it over before you stir so the person drinking it gets to watch.

1 highballYield

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What you'll need

4 oz spicy ginger beer, chilled (120 ml)
0.5 oz fresh lime juice (15 ml)
2 oz dark rum (60 ml)
2 dashes aromatic bitters
1 lime wheel
1 quart spicy ginger beer, chilled (960 ml)
0.5 cup fresh lime juice (120 ml)
2 cups dark rum (480 ml)

How to make it

Fill a tall glass with ice. Add the lime juice and the ginger beer.
Pour the rum slowly over the back of a spoon so it sits on top.
Add the bitters, if using, and a lime wheel. Serve with a stirrer.
Glass: Highball glass. Garnish: A lime wheel; a slice of candied ginger if you have it.

Chef's secrets

The darker the rum, the better the cloud.

Choose a ginger beer with real heat; a mild one makes a flat drink.

Good to know

Make ahead

Nothing to make ahead except squeezing the limes. For a party, set out ice, ginger beer, lime juice and rum and let guests build their own.