Mai Tai

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Prep: 5 mins Cook: None Serves: 1 Source: Victor 'Trader Vic' Bergeron, Trader Vic's, Oakland CA (1944)

Ingredients

  • 60ml aged Jamaican rum, or a blend of aged rums (2 oz)
  • 30ml freshly squeezed lime juice (1 oz)
  • 15ml orange curaçao (1/2 oz)
  • 15ml orgeat syrup (1/2 oz)
  • 7ml simple syrup, or rock candy syrup (1/4 oz)
  • Crushed ice
  • Garnish: spent lime shell and a fresh mint sprig

Instructions

  1. Combine rum, lime juice, orange curaçao, orgeat, and simple syrup in a shaker.
  2. Fill with crushed ice and shake hard for 6-8 seconds.
  3. Pour the entire contents — ice and all — into a double rocks glass.
  4. Top with more crushed ice if needed.
  5. Plant a spent lime shell (from the juiced lime) in the ice and tuck a fresh mint sprig behind it.
Wine Pairing: N/A
Victor 'Trader Vic' Bergeron, Trader Vic's, Oakland CA (1944) · Mid-century classic
cocktail, mai-tai, rum, jamaican-rum, orange-curacao, orgeat, lime, tiki, tropical, shaken, rocks