Post #764942 by mmaurice on Sun, Jun 12, 2016 7:18 PM

On 2016-05-11 00:26, Adam Aku Aku wrote:
It's on par with Coruba. The TV gold and dark rums are kinda rough. Those retail in the ten dollar range, so there ya go.
Royal Amber is more like a $20 rum so it's good to know that even the $9 Mai Tai's still taste the way the should. Honestly, I have went back and fourth between the Trader Vic's Mai Tai and the 1944 Mai Tai (those are the drink names as listed on TV cocktail menus) almost daily during Vic's last four year stint in portland, and the two drinks taste nearly identical to me.

I think the menu Mai Tai is sweeter and a little thicker than the '44. In Atlanta, the '44 isn't on the menu, you'd have to know about it and order it.

We have gotten pretty close to the menu version with

1 Sugar Syrup
1/4tsp Orange Extract (McCormick's)
1/4tsp Almond Extract (McCormick's)
3/4 Lime
1 Myers Dark
1 Appleton VX

[ Edited by: mmaurice 2016-06-12 19:20 ]