The Mai Tai is the cornerstone of classic tiki cocktail culture, but its recipe is also endlessly adjustable, with many delicious variants.
-style mai tai. And I’ve even bemoaned how the mai tai, more than any other cocktail,by the canned ready-to-drink cocktail boom, which has had the unfortunate effect of reinforcing negative perceptions, stereotypes and simply bad versions of the drink.
So here are 10 fundamental twists on the classic mai tai formula, and some explanation of how each pushes the idea of the mai tai in different directions.Also frequently referred to as the “island mai tai,” this is the single most common species of mai tai variant. In truth, this style of mai tai is actually significantly more common to encounter in the wild than the original 1944 version, which has a tendency to be confined to “serious” tiki and cocktail bars.
The recipe below eschews those visual elements and tones down the presence of the pineapple/orange juice to make a more refined version of the Royal Hawaiian mai tai that isn’t quite so dominated by juice. Don’t worry, it’s still quite fruity and relatively sweet.— 1 oz Demerara rum— .25 oz orgeatCombine all ingredients in a cocktail tin/shaker with ice. Shake well to chill/dilute, and strain into large rocks glass filled with crushed ice. Garnish with pineapple wedge and optional mint sprig.
There’s nothing fancy about this; it’s just a play on the mai tai to see what it would be like with the bracing bitter citrus of Campari matched up with funky Jamaican rum. If you like the Jungle Bird, it’s a variant you’ll need to try.— .5 oz orgeatCombine all ingredients in a cocktail tin/shaker with ice. Shake well to chill/dilute, and strain into large rocks glass filled with crushed ice. Garnish with mint sprig.
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