Randy Woodward

Dark & Stormy and Other Stormy Cocktails Randy Woodward

Do you know that you might get a lawsuit if you make a Dark & Stormy using dark rum other than Gosling's? Actually, the registered patent for the cocktail is Dark 'N Stormy, registered in the late 1970s. However, the company is explicit that anyone can mix any dark rum with ginger beer and lime but give it a different name, instead of insisting it is a Darn 'N Stormy. In fact, this cocktail is called the world's most litigious cocktail. Gosling's have filed numerous infringement cases of using Gosling's Black Seal Rum with other ginger beer brands or any dark rum and ginger beer to make Dark 'N Stormy. Picaroons Dark and Stormy Night Beer were even taken off the market in September 2017 for this same case, despite being in production for 11 years.