Post #252916 by Rob Roy on Thu, Sep 7, 2006 2:22 PM

On 2006-09-07 13:39, thinkingbartender wrote:
It is strange how I always get the same sort of responses on Tiki Central. Every drink is lauded as being so very different when they are not really. A splash here, a splash there may change the nuances of the drink, but it doesn't change the basic structure.

Most good bartenders can see the similarities. orange curacao, triple sec, cointreau, are not that vastly different enough that it matters. The same for orgeat syrup and falernum syrup (yes, yes, I know all about the ginger and lime peel undertones).

With that kind of attitude you wind up with a Mai Tai like this:

2 oz. dark rum
1/2 oz. Triple Sec
1/2 oz. almond syrup, clear
squeeze lime
1/4 oz. grenadine

or this

0.5 oz Amaretto
1.0 splash Lime juice
2.5 oz Orange juice
2.5 oz Pineapple Juice
0.5 oz Spiced Rum
0.5 oz White Rum
0.5 oz Triple sec

or this

1.5 oz Lemon Lime Soda
0.25 oz Apricot Brandy
1.0 tsp Grenadine
3.0 oz Pineapple Juice
1.0 oz Spiced Rum

You get the point. All of these are different drinks but they all are being called a Mai Tai. I blame the '70s.