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Mai Tai cocktail

Rum · medium

Mai Tai

The home-bar equalizer: lime, orgeat, curaçao, and a blend of rums.

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Notes

Non-alcoholic variation
Skip rum; shake orgeat, lime, curaçao syrup substitute, and pineapple juice over ice.

Ingredients

  • 1 oz Jamaican rum
  • 1 oz Aged rum
  • 1 oz Fresh lime juice
  • ½ oz Orange curaçao
  • ½ oz Orgeat syrupBuy
  • sprig Fresh mint

Dress it up

  • Viski copper tiki cocktail picks (optional)Buy
  • Pineapple & palm cocktail picks (optional)Buy

Alcoholic ingredients are never linked.

Serve in

Double rocks glass

Classic Mai Tai and short crushed-ice vessel

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Method

  1. Add rums, lime, orgeat, and curaçao to a shaker with cracked ice.
  2. Shake hard until frosty.
  3. Dump into a double rocks glass; garnish with mint.

Photo: Michael Wagner · CC BY-SA 4.0

Recipes are for adults of legal drinking age where you live. Please drink responsibly. Buy links cover atmosphere gear and non-alc mixers only. Alcohol is never linked.