MaiTai 101 for the drinking Newbie

I have never made a Mai Tai and wanted to try my hand at one soon. I think that I have some of the indigents but I'm not actually sure what, cause I'm not home to check.

I wanted to make a sort of true tasting drink but at a poor mans budget and from the items that I could get at a local store, say a Meijer(Supermarket).

If someone could write the indigents and what their names may be. Now is their a dark and light rum? And would Spiced Rum be a light rum or would the spice part ruin the taste? I can find something on the ratios but if it says, light rum (what is light rum. A light brown color. Pictures would help to. MAybe a couple of choices for each ingredient.

And I have had MaiTAi before at Chin in Livonia which is rated at a score of 5.5 and I have had drinks at Vics but not a MaiTai.

You might be just as well off to find a bottle of the Trader Vic's Mai Tai mix than to try and aquire all the ingredients yourself and mix one from scratch. That way you only need to add lime juice and rum. It will taste kind of like a vic's mai tai. I usually add a little extra orgeat and some orange bitters when mixing a mai tai from the store mix as it helps better simulate the taste of a real mai tai. Get a real lime and use the juice of one lime, rather than the 1-1/2 oz of lime juice called for by the recipe on the bottle.

The thing not to skimp on is the rum. Don't use light rum in a mai tai. You should use an aged rum, which is gold/amber in color. Appleton or Mt Gay are good ones to use. For the dark rum Myers's will do fine.

So if using the mix then fill a rocks glass with crushed ice and add

• juice of one fresh lime
• one shot gold rum
• float with Myers's (about 1/2 to 1 oz)

If you have orgeat and orange bittes, add a couple of shakes of the bitters and about a teaspoon of the orgeat.

To mix from scratch you will need:

• One fresh Lime
• 1/4 oz Orgeat Syrup
• 1/4 oz Rock Candy (simple) syrup
• 1/2 oz Orange Curacao (a liqueur)
• 1-1/2 to two oz Aged (gold) rum
• Myers's float

mix everything except the dark rum and shake or stir, then top with the dark rum.

If you can't find orange curacao you can use triple sec, but the drink will taste sweeter. You can use blue curacao. but the drink will look weird (a yucky greenish color). If you REALLY want to screw it up, use grenadine instead of the simple syrup. Be sure to use that with the blue curacao so that it really looks disgusting.

Deja vu.

As a conclusion to Videobogging Week 2006, I toasted with my version of the Trader Vic Mai Tai, which I mixed on camera.

http://bubbaraylove.com/revue/?p=15

On 2006-09-20 20:53, Hakalugi wrote:
Deja vu.

Lets build a Mai Tai

Gathering the ingredients for a Mai Tai is not difficult, you probably have most of the ingredient all ready.

No matter how you make your cocktails, make them well. Accuracy and concistency are the key to any good drink and every good bartender.