Post #725894 by Swanky on Thu, Aug 21, 2014 11:45 AM

On 2014-08-21 10:33, Chip and Andy wrote:

On 2014-08-21 10:18, Swanky wrote:
Mai Tai is slang for fruit juice and rum with a dark floater.

Which is why so many people, myself included, work so hard to put the Mai Tai back on the top shelf where it belongs. Mai Tai's DO NOT have a dark floater. Ever.

Why go for the hack trying to duplicate Donn's masterpieces when you can actually have the masterpieces he was trying to copy?

No disrespect to the rest of Donn's Rhum Rhapsodies, but the Mai Tai is the superior cocktail. The Beachcomber had the QB Cooler.... Mai Tai light. Mai Tai wannabe. Well, it can't really be a wannabe since it came first, but the point is that it isn't as good as a Mai Tai.

Trader Vic might be the cut-rate version of the Beachcomber empire, and he wasn't the only one to ride on those particular coat-tails, but you do have to give credit where credit is due.... Trader Vics, unlike most of the others, is still around. And for all of the drinks invented by Donn or Vic... the Mai Tai, when made well, is a most excellent drink and has no equal. There are many drinks like it, but none beat it.

Go to Trader Vic's and order a Mai Tai. You'll be lucky if you can drink it. Awful. Just awful. My last few trips to Trader Vic's have left me not wanting to return.

Next, go anywhere that serves a Jet Pilot or Navy Grog or even a Q.B. Cooler. It'll be awesome.

They won't have to spend many, many hours dialing it in to make it taste good or even right. Open the recipe, mix it up, it is good.

That's a win-win for Donn's recipes.

As of my last look, drinkupny still have LH151 in stock. i.e. I didn't buy ALL of it.