Post #226554 by the drunken hat on Thu, Apr 13, 2006 11:33 AM

On 2003-02-23 14:56, Luckydesigns wrote:
Okay, this doesn't have anything to do with the Suffering Bastard, but since we are on the topic of Mai Tai's, why does every tiki bar in SF use pineapple juice and grenadine in their mai tais?
I don't get it and they taste nothing like a mai tai.

i think most of the blame as to putting grenadine into a mai tai comes from the mr boston guides. the oldest printing i have is from 1976 but in it the recipe is:

1/2 teaspoon powdered sugar
2 oz rum
1 oz triple sec
tablespoon orgeat
tablespoon grenadine
1 tablespoon lime juice

i think people got used to them being made this way. maybe thats how their neighbor bob made it this way at his cocktail parties or their bartender at the local corner bar had to look it up in the cocktail book and that became the standard.

looking at this recipe you can see how one would want to add more juice the mix to make the drink less syrupy. i think that this is the reason pineapple was added. just my thoughts.

does anyone have an old copy of mr boston's to see what the mai tai recipe is?