Post #394114 by Swanky on Tue, Jul 15, 2008 11:03 AM

When every bar in town starts making the real Mai Tai, then we need a few new varieties.

These creative cocktails go beyond what either Don the beachcomber or Trader Vic could ever have imagined.

That statement means they have no clue.

The Mai Tai has been around for what, 40-50 years? The guy(s) who invented it made some variations and lots of people were making thousands of them every month to guests. If there was an improvement ot variety worthy, it has been made.

I think we are speaking of a figurative Mai Tai here. That drink you get on vacation in Hawaii with the pineapple juice and dark rum floater and a flower in it. No real recipe, just whatever sweet thing with rum and juice they make and you recreate at home later. I bet this is 50-gaggingly sweet drinks and one slightly sour one...