 Welcome to cocktails 101 by drinks made easier ongoing series where we teach you how to make some simple cocktails at home Now if you haven't seen our previous ones you can click on the link above for the playlist of previously made drinks now today We're taking a look at a simple two ingredient cocktail if you've had one of these before and you don't think you like it It's probably because you didn't have the right ingredients when you have something as simple as this cocktail if either the ingredients suck The drinks gonna suck To build the dark and stormy we'll start by adding two ounces of Gosling's black seal rum Now this is the rum that originated the cocktail you can use other rums But you need to make sure it's a good quality rum that has a real spine to it if it can hold up over ice and has some really deep Characteristics it'll make for a good dark and stormy, but a lot of folks out there will see if it's not Gosling's It's not a real dark and stormy next you're gonna add three to four ounces depending on your taste of ginger beer Now I've tried just about every ginger beer that's available in the market and to be honest most of them out there are crap The only ones that I've found that you can readily get are either fever tree or when Trader Joe's releases it They're alcoholic version of ginger beer if you have your own ginger syrup at home You can make a great ginger beer, but with a two ingredient cocktail if either of your ingredients suck It's gonna be a hot mess Give it a quick little stir And you can garnish with a lime Now some people will say you should or shouldn't have the lime or lime juice I prefer it with a little bit, but you try it and let me know cheers from drinks made easy Thanks so much for watching and please remember to always drink responsibly because everybody likes to make friends But no one likes to make them in a prison shower. We're gonna need to do another one of that. That was perfect. That wasn't