Mai Tai – not a drink, but a lifestyle!

MAI TAI, my friend… MAI TAI!

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Mai Tai

30 ml best aged white rum (Havana Club Anejo 7 Anos)
30 ml best aged dark rum (Angostura 1919)
15 ml curacao (Bols Dry Orange Curacao)
5 ml orgeat
5 ml sugar syrup
30 ml fresh lime juice
Shake with pieces of lime shells.  Old-fashioned glass with a lot of crushed ice.

Эта пять!

Some notes about a Mai Tai

Mai Tai

60 ml aged dark rum (El Dorado Demerara 12 years)
15 ml orange curacao (BOLS Dry Orange)
5 ml orgeat
5 ml gomme syrup
30 ml fresh lime juice
Shake with ice and lime shell pieces until a shaker becomes frosty. Strain over crushed ice in an Old-fashioned glass, garnish with a lime wedge and a cherry.

Some notes:

1. Always use only the best ingredients – from rum to water for ice.

2. In a glass – crushed ice, but in a shaker – cubed.

3. Lime shell in a shaker – MUST.

4. Sip slowly … and responsibly… :)

My 100$ Mai Tai

How we may read, the secret of a perfect Mai Tai lays in using the best available ingredients which we can find.

Currently I have following “the best ingridients” for a Mai Tai in my liquor cabinet:

8-years aged Trinidad’s premium rum – Angostura 1919 (34$ per 0,7 l bottle)
7-years aged Cuban rum – Havana Club Anejo 7 Anos (27$ per 0,7 l bottle)
BOLS Dry Orange Curacao (15$ per 0,7 l bottle)
MONIN Orgeat Syrup (11$ per 0,7 l bottle)
gomme syrup (homemade, about 5$ per 1 l)
fresh lime juice (25$ per 1 l)

TOTAL: 117 $ :)

Mai Tai for 100$

30 ml white rum (Havana Club Anejo 7 Anos)
30 ml dark rum (Angostura 1919)
15 ml orange curacao (BOLS Dry Orange)
5 ml orgeat
5 ml gomme syrup
30 ml fresh lime juice
Shake with a lot of ice and some pieces of lime peel. Strain over ice in an Old-fashioned glass with cracked ice, garnish with a lime wedge and a cherry.

The result really tastes for 100$! Very fresh drink with bright rum taste. Maybe it is a little bit sweeter than I prefer.