I'm sure at least Jeff has one.

I just made my first Mai Tai. After Don The Beachcomber's a couple of weeks ago I figured I had to take a shot at making my own. The recipe I got from a book I have is

1 measure light rum
1 measure dark rum
1 measure apricot brandy
3 measures orange juice
3 measures pineapple juice
1 measure grenadine as a topper

It's dang good and seems "authentic" enough to me.

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From Beachbum Berry, the prophet of tiki drinks:

1 1/2 oz FRESH lime juice (key limes, if you can get them)
1/2 oz orange curacao
1/4 oz orgeat syrup (almond flavored. I get Monin brand at a coffee shop nearby)
1/4 oz simple syrup

Now, the rum. The Bum says 1 oz Jamaican, and 1 oz Martinique. I use 2 oz Appleton Estates Extra. Fairly easy to find. The Reserve will work in a pinch, but don't use the V/X unless it's all you can find.

Add ingredients to shaker with crushed ice and shake for 30 secs. Strain into glass with crushed ice, garnish with a sprig of fresh mint. Cut the straw down so your nose is in the mint while you drink it.

A lovely drink, but maybe not what you expect. I use 1/2 oz orgeat, as I like it a little sweeter. If you can't find all of that, I'll bring the fixins down to Surffest next year.

Will

"You're done, once you're a surfer you're done. You're in. It's like the mob or something. You're not getting out." - Kelly Slater

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We've had this discussion, Ran. I'm holding you to it for next convention.

I am going shopping next week, though. ;)

Will

"You're done, once you're a surfer you're done. You're in. It's like the mob or something. You're not getting out." - Kelly Slater

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I've never maid a Mai Tai myself,

though I did come up with something kinda close 1 time.
its basically a GROG.

but I had 3 ounces of 3 different dark rums.
one was Macombo from mexico,
the other 2 I am drawing a blank,
but dark rums, good ones, like 40 bucks a bottle or more.
not myers.

then
1/2 oz. Lemon Juice
1/2 oz. Lime juice
2 table spoons of dark Brown sugar,
and a few sprigs of mint,

so its a fancy Grog,
but it had hints of Mai Tai in there.

try it, let me know what you think.

Jeff(bigtikidude)

I've made quite a few Trader Vic's Mai Tai over the years and although I really like the drink, it probably wouldn't rank in my top ten.

An interesting and tasty alternative to the classic TV concoction is the Surf Room Mai Tai which actually contains additional fruit juices as well as 3 different rums but also have the lime, orgeat, sugar syrup and Curacao found in the Trader's recipe.

<u>Surf Room Mai Tai</u>

1 ounce orange juice
1 ounce unsweetened pineapple juice
1/2 ounce fresh lime juice
1/4 ounce fresh lemon juice
1/4 ounce orgeat syrup
1/4 ounce sugar syrup
1/4 ounce orange Orange Curacao
1 ounce Demerara rum
1 ounce dark Jamaican rum
1 ounce light Puerto Rican rum

Shake with plenty of crushed ice and pour into double old-fashioned glass. Garnish with pineapple finger, sugar cane stick, orchid and mint sprig.

Beachbum Berry's Intoxica comment on it:

"From the Surf Room of the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, Waikiki, Hawaii, circa 1940s. The old Kamaainas of Waikiki still insist that the Mai Tai originated at the Royal Hawaiian, and that this is the authentic recipe - even though Trader Vic is universally acknowledged as the inventor of the drink".

I'm really looking forward to Berry's upcoming book Beachbum Berry Remixed which updates his previous Grog Log and Intoxica but also adds lots of newly discovered, previously unpublished vintage tiki drink recipes as well as new ones from today's tiki revival.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1593621396/

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Matt: I have no idea if this is any good... http://www.tikiking.com/cdb/drinks/virgin_mai_tai.html

I've become really interested in doing the $100 mai tai; my only problem is food allergies. Does anyone know if Vic's syrups are corn-based? (Or even better, if you have an ingredient list.)

Mike
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Ok guys, back up for me: rum recommendations.

We have Myers. It's all we've ever had and all my wife has ever used to make her holiday rum cakes, so that's what I used. For light I've got Bacardi and when I'm through with that I've got a bottle of Mount Gay. I've always been a bourbon, scotch, and to a lesser extent, vodka guy. This is my first foray into rum.

Interesting how this recipe (taken from "The Ultimate Book of Cocktails" by Stuart Walton) is nothing like the other recipes you guys mentioned.

Will, I think we should set up a Mai Tai bar at Surf Fest.

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morphball: Thanks for the link. It is rough not drinking some times.. I never really have been in to it, but there is always some degree of temptation, haha.

My thing is.. I grew up in to the punk / hardcore scene.. and I was Straight Edge (No drugs, alcohol, etc.) and that has stuck with me. I am 26 now and have not touched anything like that since I was really young and being a goof. My wife does not drink as well, so it is easy to stick to it when we are both living the same clean and healthy life style.

morphball: Yes, actually I have one on the back of my left arm.. it is a skull and crossbones with an "S" and an "E" on opposing sides of the crossbones. Got that when I was 18, haha.