Key facts
- Type
- Cocktail
- Ingredients
- 30 ml amber Jamaican rum 30 ml Martinique molasses rhum 15 ml orange curaçao 15 ml orgeat syrup (almond) 30 ml fresh lime juice 7.5 ml simple syrup
- Base spirit
- Rum
- Website
- iba-world .com /mai-tai /
- Standard drinkware
- Double old fashioned glass
- Standard garnish
- pineapple spear, mint leaves, and lime peel
- Served
- shaved or crushed ice
- Preparation
- Add all ingredients into a shaker with ice. Shake and pour into a double rocks glass or a highball glass.
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
The Mai Tai (/ˈmaɪ ˈtaɪ/ MYE TYE) is a cocktail made of rum, Curaçao liqueur, orgeat syrup, and lime juice. It is one of the characteristic cocktails in Tiki culture.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mai Tai” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.