Post #655017 by Dolewhip on Tue, Oct 9, 2012 11:51 PM

Test Lab: Mai Tai Modified?

So it felt like a night to mess with a time-tried recipe. Working off the Mai Tai recipe in Beachbum Berry's Grog Log (page 50 if you're scoring at home, or even if you're alone ), I modified it like this:

1 1/2 Ounces fresh lime juice
1/2 ounces Curacao
1/4 ounce Orgeat Syrup
1/4 ounce Homemade Light Ginger Syrup*
1/4 Ounce Homemade Cinammon Syrup
1 ounce Matusalem Platino
1 ounce El Dorado 12
Coruba Float

So the drink(s) turned out perfectly, not too sweet and well-balanced, the orgeat, ginger and cinnamon playing nicely off the lime and rum trio.

Question is, can I still call this a Mai Tai or should it go by a different name? Either way, I'm making many more of these!

So I'm putting out this to the Tiki Central faithful; if there's a more appropriate name, what would it be?

*The difference between my light and heavier ginger syrup is that the ginger is removed from the light after boiling a standard 1:1 simple syrup with ginger pieces. The heavier has emulsified ginger integrated into it.