Mai Tai

I used to get the best Mai Tai's at Jimmy Wong's on Wabash in downtown Chicago (45 years ago). Unfortunately they are no more. Pre-made Mai Tai 'mixers' used to be commonly available, but they never gave the same results, and have generally been replaced by margaritta mixers on the store shelves. I realized that the complexity of a Mai Tai is the liquors, not the fruit juice, so here is my recipe for a mixer that will let you throw together a decent Mai Tai with minimum effort:

Mai Tai Mixer

• 10 oz (1 ¼ cup) silver Rum
• 10 oz (1 ¼ cup) gold Rum
• 4 oz (½ cup) Ameretto
• 2 oz (¼ cup) Grenadine
• 2 oz (¼ cup) Triple Sec

If you prepare the mixer ahead, you're never more than a few seconds away from a Mai Tai!

Use 2 oz mixer (more or less to taste), add 6 oz Pineaple juice (I keep a few 6 oz cans in the fridge), ice. Finish with fruit garnish and little unbrella.

For 750ml mixer:

• 268ml silver Rum
• 268ml gold Rum
• 107ml Ameretto
• 54ml Grenadine
• 54ml Triple Sec

Ameretto: I've used Disorono, di Amore, Arrow, Du Kyper

Other Mai Tai References

Main Street Pour House - Woodstock, IL Light Rum Dark Rum Amaretto Orange and Pinaple Juice Grenadine

Le Maitai From a Tahiti postcard.

3 cl rhum blanc (light rum) 3 cl de rhum ambre (dark rum) 3 cl de triple sec 3 cl de jus de citron vert (lime juice) 1 cl de sirop de grenadine 1 cl de sirop sucre de canne (corn syrup)

Frapper le tout dans un shaker et servir dans un verre a moitie re moitli de glace, avec un trait de jus d'ananas. (Beat everything in a shaker and serve in a half-reed glass half of ice, with a dash of pineapple juice.)

Quest For The Perfect Mai Tai

https://www.insidehook.com/article/booze/quest-perfect-mai-tai

Gatekeeping The Mai Tai

https://cocktailwonk.com/2021/09/gatekeeping-the-mai-tai.html

Other Mai Tai references...

https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/guy-fieri/king-kamehameha-mai-tai-recipe-2109373

https://www.caribbeancastaways.com/2011/08/03/mai-tai-cocktail-recipes/