Mai Tai trouble- dark rum over powers all other flavors - Tiki Drinks and Food

RA Registered Astronaut Member Joined: Mar 05, 2006 Posts: 66	RA Registered Astronaut Posted posted on Tue, Jan 12, 2010 11:20 PM On 2009-12-22 05:19, Wayfarer wrote: I'm having trouble with my mai tai's- the dark rum drowns out everything else! I'm using the Trader Vic recipe from Trader Vic's Tiki Party with these ingredients- Myers's Dark Rum Bacardi Gold Rum DeKuypers Curacao Torani Orgeat Lime Simple Syrup The particular rums I'm using because they're the only brands sold on the island. Any suggestions on how to tweak the volumes so the flavor taste better. Don't worry about it as long as it tastes good. I consider myself a decent mixologist and I've pretty much given up on mixing the perfect mai tai, which i've only had at one place, the Halekulani. They somehow pull off the perfect balance of sweet and tart with strong almond notes. In attempts to replicate, I've made my own orgeat with double and triple the amount of almond extract called for, but once mixed, the essence never shows up any more than usual. Get yourself some demerara, make some allspice syrup and move on to the Navy grog. Tastier drink and more fun to perfect, IMO.

On 2009-12-22 05:19, Wayfarer wrote:
I'm having trouble with my mai tai's- the dark rum drowns out everything else! I'm using the Trader Vic recipe from Trader Vic's Tiki Party with these ingredients-
Myers's Dark Rum
Bacardi Gold Rum
DeKuypers Curacao
Torani Orgeat
Lime
Simple Syrup

The particular rums I'm using because they're the only brands sold on the island. Any suggestions on how to tweak the volumes so the flavor taste better.

Don't worry about it as long as it tastes good. I consider myself a decent mixologist and I've pretty much given up on mixing the perfect mai tai, which i've only had at one place, the Halekulani. They somehow pull off the perfect balance of sweet and tart with strong almond notes. In attempts to replicate, I've made my own orgeat with double and triple the amount of almond extract called for, but once mixed, the essence never shows up any more than usual. Get yourself some demerara, make some allspice syrup and move on to the Navy grog. Tastier drink and more fun to perfect, IMO.

Post #504049 by Registered Astronaut on Tue, Jan 12, 2010 11:20 PM