Challenge #41: Ginger - another cocktail recipe #SorryNotSorry

[miss_s_b]

You will need:

- a lover, friend, colleague or acquaintance with which to share this
- a knife and chopping board
- a muddler*
- a largish cobbler cocktail shaker (or a British pint glass** and a Hawthorne strainer)
- something for stirring with***
- two hiball/collins glasses
- a lime
- a lump of fresh ginger approx 2 inches long
- large ice cubes
- spiced rum
- something with which to measure the rum
- a standard sized (330ml) can of Old Jamaica Fiery Ginger Beer****

Chop your lime into quarters and your ginger into 8 quarter inch thick slices.
Put two quarters of the lime and six slices of fresh ginger in the bottom of the cocktail shaker/pint glass and muddle vigorously, saving the two prettiest slices of ginger and quarters of lime for garnish.
Add 165ml of Spiced rum and the can of ginger beer to your shaker and stir gently.
Fill your two collins glasses with large ice cubes.
Strain the drink into the glasses.
Garnish with the remaining lime quarters and ginger slices, one of each per glass.

This is a sort of variant on a Moscow Mule or a Dark 'n' Stormy, but spiced rum works well better than vodka or bog standard dark rum, and also I am not going to get sued by overly litigious makers of bog standard dark rum for posting the recipe. Suggestions for names gratefully received; I tend to call it a Spiced Rum Mule because I am unimaginative ;)

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* or a rolling pin, or whatever else you can grab for muddling
** please note that an American pint glass, at a mere 473ml, will not be big enough to hold the 495ml of liquid here, never mind that plus the lime and ginger and space for stirring. You need a proper 568ml British pint for this.
*** a cocktail spoon is nice but not obligatory: in a pinch you can use the knife you used to chop the lime and the ginger.
**** or other very gingery brand - Idris used to be good but I've not seen that for ages. It needs to be a properly fiery one.