Post #757313 by kkocka on Fri, Jan 15, 2016 12:06 PM

On 2016-01-15 11:08, mikehooker wrote:
Yeah, it's the one in Sippin Safari everyone seems to love but I just don't find it to have a good balance. I love all the ingredients but the proportions just don't work for me. This has nothing on what the Mai Kai serves up or the Atomic Grog's tribute which actually has more booze and ingredients that come together perfectly. Would be curious to know the exact ingredients you use and if you make any adjustments cuz as the recipe reads, it's not worth wasting my LH151 on again.

So I make mine without making adjustments from Sippin' Safari. What I tend to use are as such:

Jet Pilot (Steve Crane, pg 130 Sippin' Safari)
.5 oz fresh lime juice
.5 oz store brand white grapefruit juice (I don't juice fresh oranges or grapefruit)
.5 oz homemade cinnamon syrup (preferably B.G. Reynolds', and the last couple years it's been Monin)
.5 oz John D Taylor Velvet Falernum (preferably B.G. Reynolds')
1 oz Coruba Dark
.75 oz Bacardi 8
.75 oz Lemon Hart 151
Dash Angostura
6 drops Pernod
8 oz crushed ice

Prepared in a top-down blender w/more crushed ice if needed. That's it! I will say that Hayward's Mai Kai Jet Pilot tributes are high on my list to try because I love this drink so much, but this is the drink that I know and the way it was introduced to me by Kelly at Trader Sam's.