The original recipe for the Mai Tai cocktail

The Mai Tai, a rum-based cocktail, is one of the most famous tikis. The drink comes with a special story, which we want to tell you here in addition to the original recipe. Even if the drink has already been used for a long time, you can easily remix the cocktail at home.

You haven't bought any ingredients yet?

Then take a look at our in-house created cocktail box for the Mai Tai. In addition to the ingredients, we also provide you with matching tiki glasses as well as a cocktail shaker and other bar utensils. A box put together for you that makes it easy for everyone to enjoy Mai Tai at home without much previous experience.

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Contents:

1. Storytime
2. Bar utensils
3. Ingredients
4. Recipe

Bartender Secrets wishes you a lot of fun mixing.

1. Story time

As just mentioned, the Mai Tai, like almost all Tiki cocktails, comes with an exciting story. Since the Mai Tai is by far the most famous Tiki, we will briefly explain to you how the Tiki genre came about.

It's not just the appearance of the Tiki cocktails that is mysterious.

The consumption of rum was particularly popular in the 30s and 40s. This led bartenders who knew the trade to create new cocktails with rum as a base. At that time, cocktails were generally more of a mystery. New recipes were created and published, but without specifying the quantities of ingredients. Nowadays, when every recipe is given with the exact milliliter number of ingredients, it is impossible to imagine such a thing. To illustrate the theme of uncertainty and mystery surrounding these cocktails, one of the alleged inventors of the Mai Tai, “Don the Beachcomber,” came up with the idea of ​​serving these drinks tiki-style. He was the first bartender to open a tiki bar. This style has prevailed to this day and now you know how these spooky tiki mugs and glasses came about.

Mai Tai the most famous tiki drink

The Mai Tai recipe was also one of the cocktails, which was published in the 1940s without any quantities. This made it difficult to say which recipe was the original.

However, another bartender, Victor Bergeron aka Trader Vic, took heart alongside the aforementioned "Don the Beachcomber" and called himself the inventor of the Mai Tai. His story sounded a little different. One evening he mixed his two friends from Tahiti a rum-based cocktail with the refinement of lime juice and almond syrup. After the two had tasted his drink, they told him: " Mai Tai Roa Ae ". Translated it means something like: “Not of this world”. He is said to have written down the recipe that same evening and gave the cocktail the name Mai Tai.

So who was the inventor of this cocktail?

Was it “Don the Beachcomber” the bartender with the first ever Tiki bar or “Trader Vic” who mixed this cocktail for his friends off the top of his head.

Unfortunately, the legal dispute over this cocktail has not yet been resolved to this day. This makes the most famous Tiki cocktail even more mystical than it already is.

2. You need these utensils

You should choose this glass:

As just mentioned, this cocktail is a tiki drink. So using Tiki cups or Tiki glasses is the right choice. In our Mai Tai cocktail box you will also find original Tiki glasses with the typically creepy grimace.

You need these mixing utensils:

For example, we send our cocktail boxes with all the utensils and ingredients needed for this cocktail. The Mai Tai Box includes a stainless steel cocktail shaker and a bar measure for precisely measuring the ingredients. You absolutely need these two utensils to mix the Mai Tai.

This decoration goes with Mai Tai:

Pictures of various Mai Tai cocktails with a pineapple as decoration on the edge of the glass are often circulating on the Internet. The Mai Tai has a rather intense taste and is rounded off by the rum types rather bitterly. Unfortunately, a sweet pineapple doesn't really fit there. We chose the lime because lime juice is also mixed into the cocktail. You can cut these into slices or quarters and then place them on the cocktail.

3. You need these ingredients

The amount of these ingredients are needed for a cocktail:

• 50 ml brown rum
• 15 ml white rum
• 15 ml Cointreau Triple Sec
• 45 ml almond syrup
• 45 ml lime juice
• Ice cubes and crushed ice
• a lime

If you are planning several cocktails for your cocktail evening, you can easily extrapolate the information to the desired quantity.

4. The original recipe for the Mai Tai cocktail

1. Grab a cocktail shaker and place it in front of you.
2. Cut a lime in half and set one half aside for later.
3. Quarter the other half and add it to the shaker.
4. Now add the brown and white rum, the Cointreau Triple Sec, as well as the lime juice and the almond syrup into the shaker.
5. Fill the shaker to the brim with ice cubes, close it and shake until the cocktail shaker runs ice cold.
6. Now take your tiki glass and fill it to the brim with ice.
7. Now strain the liquid from the shaker into the glass without letting the ice from the shaker get into the glass.
8. Finally, take the other half of the lime, cut a slice off it and place it on the cocktail
9. Don't forget the straw. Now it's time for cheers. Enjoy the cocktail!