Post #349822 by Dalton on Sun, Dec 16, 2007 9:09 AM

Well, I had a Menehune juice at Trader Vic's in Scottsdale a while back and
was hooked! I found a recipe on the internet that does not resemble the
Mai Tai at all (unless you put a dark rum floater on it, which is good):

Juice of 1 lime
2 oz light rum (I like Cachaca 51)
1/4 oz simple syrup (I like agave nectar better)
1/4 oz Orgeat
(Floater)

Apply the lime juice to a tumbler full of ice (cubes).
Shake remaining ingredients with crushed ice, and pour.

I find that I always need to tweak the measures, especially after I start
serving them ('cause I'm drinking them too)--never seems to be enough of one
thing or another.

This recipe is closest to that first Menehune Juice at Trader Vic's so I
don't see a connection to the Mai Tai.

Incidentally, I was recently in Maui and asked for a Menehune Juice
everywhere I went, figuring that, hey, it's Hawai'i! My girlfriend started
complaining eventually and hiding her face. Nobody knew of it.

Finally we went to Mama's FH one afternoon and I described it to Kevin
the bartender. Just wasn't the same...but there's that tweaking thing again!

Here's a picture of me drinking a Menehune Juice.

I say Menehune Juice no ka oi. Aloha.