Mai Tai Cocktail Recipe

Stir all the ingredients together in a jug or shake them in a cocktail shaker.

Mai tai cocktail recipe - Shake 1 ounce of light rum 1 2 ounce of triple sec 1 4 ounce of lime juice 1 1 2 ounces each of pineapple juice and orange juice and a dash of grenadine with ice. There should be 2 ounces of rum half appleton dark rum half rhum clément vsop but you could substitute 2 ounces appleton gold rum. Strain into a rocks glass and top with dark rum.

Add ice and shake until cold. See jeff beachbum berry. Among the fruitier mai tai recipes this version is worth mixing up.

Strain into an old fashioned glass half filled with ice then float 1 2 ounce dark rum on top. Put a few cubes of ice in a tumbler pour over the liquid and garnish with a cherry. Trader vic s is credited with inventing the drink and the first person to try it was said to cry out mai tai which means the best out of this world in tahitian.

The mai tai cocktail took a star turn by earning a prominent role in the elvis film blue hawaii. In a cocktail shaker stir together rum orange juice cointreau lime juice and orgeat syrup if using.