How To Make 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. See jeff beachbum berry. 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.

There should be 2 ounces of rum half appleton dark rum half rhum clément vsop but you could substitute 2 ounces appleton gold rum. Pineapple juice is not used in a mai tai just lime juice. Add ice and shake until cold.

Among the fruitier mai tai recipes this version is worth mixing up. The mai tai cocktail took a star turn by earning a prominent role in the elvis film blue hawaii. The mai tai is perhaps the most famous tiki cocktail for a good reason.

Strain into a rocks glass and top with dark rum. Put a few cubes of ice in a tumbler pour over the liquid and garnish with a cherry.

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