Bar Bible / Cocktails / Mai Tai
Mai Tai
IBA official cocktail, Contemporary Classics. Rum based, shaken, served in a rocks glass.
Trader Vic, Oakland, 1944. Nothing about the original was blue.
Ingredients
| Jamaican rum | 30 ml (1 oz) |
| Martinique rhum agricole | 30 ml (1 oz) |
| Orange curaçao | 15 ml (½ oz) |
| Orgeat | 15 ml (½ oz) |
| Lime juice | 30 ml (1 oz) |
| Simple syrup | 7.5 ml (¼ oz) |
Measures for one serve. Open the drink in Bar Bible to scale it to a batch or switch to ounces.
Method
- Add everything to a shaker and fill with ice.
- Shake hard for 10 to 12 seconds.
- Strain over fresh ice in a rocks glass.
- Garnish with mint sprig and a lime shell.
- Glass
- Rocks glass
- Ice
- Crushed
- Garnish
- Mint sprig and a lime shell
Open Mai Tai in Bar Bible
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