While by most accounts it was stormy -- with strong drink playing its usual corrosive part -- during this period Jay Carsey did begin to claw himself back up the ladder of respectability.
My arrival at the Reefs, while minus the pink carpet, was capped off with a deftly prepared Dark 'n' Stormy highball, the national drink of choice mixed with ginger beer, rum and lime, accompanied by a warm sea breeze and ocean views, and home feeling an eternity away.
Among other things, the restaurant featured an all-you-can-eat salad bar, an unlimited Sunday brunch, and "traditional Bermuda drink, Dark & Stormy, made with Bermuda's Goslings Black Seal rum and Ginger Beer.
On Friday evening, Labour officials and press officers drank "dark and stormy" cocktails (ingredients: dark rum and ginger beer) at Labour's headquarters in Victoria to mark the departure of a press officer.
SIGNATURE DRINK The Dark and Stormy, made with rum, ginger beer and fresh lime juice ($12).
I soon became devoted to the local nonalcoholic ginger beer; the more-or-less official Bermuda drink, the Dark and Stormy, mixes in Gosling's Black Seal rum.
Instruct everyone to drink whenever the broadcast plays "Stormy Weather" to herald news of further stock-market losses.
Revelers spilled out of bars that advertised #mathilde drink specials: $5 Dark and Stormys.
In this one, the characters are forever turning up in each other's rooms, shrugging off their tailored overcoats and calling for a drink and a cigarette with a stormy world-weariness that would be frankly comical if they hadn't killed a man.
I wanted a tall rum drink and he brought forth a "Dark and Stormy".
