IBA: Contemporary Classics Rum
Mai-Tai
Two rums, orange curaçao, orgeat and lime: Trader Vic’s 1944 original, not the fruit punch it later became.
- Method
- Shaken
- Glass
- Old fashioned glass
- Served
- On the rocks
- Strength
- 14.8% ABV about 1.6 standard drinks
Ingredients
128 ml before ice, about 193 ml in the glass
- 30 ml Amber Jamaican rum
- 30 ml Martinique molasses rum
- 15 ml Orange curaçao
- 15 ml Orgeat
- 30 ml Lime juice
- 7.5 ml Simple syrup
Method
- Add all ingredients into a shaker with ice.
- Shake and pour into a double rocks glass or an highball glass.
Garnish
Pineapple spear, mint leaves and lime peel.
Notes
The Martinique molasses rum used by Trader Vic was not an Agricole Rhum but a type of “rummy” from molasses.
Recipe as specified by the International Bartenders Association. Strength is an estimate that allows for dilution from ice.
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