Mai Tai mix at the grocery store - Tiki Drinks and Food

W WillTiki Member Joined: Apr 29, 2004 Posts: 56	W WillTiki Posted posted on Tue, May 17, 2005 11:10 AM Hiltiki, Wow, thanks for the cool info...mmmm MaiTai! It sounds similar to the delicious MaiTai mix made by David Chan of the now closed Honolulu Restaurant in Alexandria Virginia. He was a bartender for Trader Vic's in DC. They bottle and sell the mix via their website: http://www.time2tiki.com/ Could you do one more test for us? Take a small amount of the TV MT mix and mix it with some cold club soda at a five to one ratio (one part mix to 5 parts soda) and see if it tastes like a lime coke with almond. or just taste it straight for that matter. My point is, they are getting that dark color from somewhere. If you mix a TV MaiTai "to spec and from scratch" from the officially accepted recipe(s), using available rums of course, such as St. James and Appleton's, it is just not as dark as one made from the Trader Vic's commercial dark syrup mix that you have. Although, it is darker than one made from the grocery store type Trader Vic's mix. The rums and the curacao are not dark enough to do it. Something containing a great deal of caramel coloring is necessary to get that reddish dark brown color when mixed and I suspect that something to be cola syrup.

Hiltiki,

Wow, thanks for the cool info...mmmm MaiTai! It sounds similar to the delicious MaiTai mix made by David Chan of the now closed Honolulu Restaurant in Alexandria Virginia. He was a bartender for Trader Vic's in DC. They bottle and sell the mix via their website:

http://www.time2tiki.com/

Could you do one more test for us? Take a small amount of the TV MT mix and mix it with some cold club soda at a five to one ratio (one part mix to 5 parts soda) and see if it tastes like a lime coke with almond. or just taste it straight for that matter.
My point is, they are getting that dark color from somewhere. If you mix a TV MaiTai "to spec and from scratch" from the officially accepted recipe(s), using available rums of course, such as St. James and Appleton's, it is just not as dark as one made from the Trader Vic's commercial dark syrup mix that you have. Although, it is darker than one made from the grocery store type Trader Vic's mix. The rums and the curacao are not dark enough to do it. Something containing a great deal of caramel coloring is necessary to get that reddish dark brown color when mixed and I suspect that something to be cola syrup.

Post #159603 by WillTiki on Tue, May 17, 2005 11:10 AM