Post #290329 by DJ Terence Gunn on Wed, Mar 7, 2007 1:59 PM

On 2007-03-07 12:57, Ojaitimo wrote:
The mai tai on the left is from the Warehouse with triple sec and sweet & sour
On the right is mine with curacao and fresh lime juice that I challenged them with recently.

Don't stop there. Use triple sec and fresh lime juice in one, Curacao and fresh lime juice in the other, and compare the tastes -- blindly, with somebody who you can trust to fool you. I'm not sure where you're getting the sweet n sour from, which certainly does not belong in a mai tai.

But the proof of the mai tai is not only in the making, but the tasting. If any of you are ever in Seattle this summer, drop me an email, come to The Shrunken Head Lounge, and I will show you -- via your taste buds -- that you won't be able to taste the difference between a triple sec mai tai and a Curacao one. Preceding this we will, of course, blind taste test various triple secs, Cointreau, and Curacao.

And as far as the whole Potters Curacao vs. other brands' prices go, Curacao and Cointreau are twice, if not more, as expensive as triple sec. I don't think the Potters Curacao is actually a real Curacao, either.

Original recipe or no, Curacao, Cointrea, Grand Marnier, and Triple Sec are all the same thing: orange liqueur. Straight drinking of them, served at room temperature, will reveal subtle differences between all of them (which is hardly worth the very unsubtle differences in price). But served cold in a mixed cocktail, where its flavour is to merely suggest and complement the overall flavour, one will find no difference.

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