Mai Tai Recipe

The Mai Tai is perhaps one of the best examples of a cocktail that has a good combination of tropical flavours, where the quality of ingredients are important to get the desired flavour. A Mai Tai should have a deep amber hue and allows the rum to shine through with the other ingredients... Another perfect summer cocktail that will make your customers want to come back for more.

[CorySchoolland]

Great video! Always good to see people using the original recipe. Thanks for sharing :)
Nit-picking:
- The description says "A Mai Tai should have a deep amber hue"… that's definitely not the color of the drink in the video, which I think more accurately represents a proper Mai Tai. I think it largely depends on the opacity of your orgeat, but still, unless you're using heavily colored rum it's probably going to end up a fairly light-colored drink.
- I'm curious to know why you blend it for so long in the Hamilton? Most tiki recipes call for around 5-10 seconds. Trader Vic actually stipulated this drink was to be made by shaking with crushed ice, followed by an unstrained pour. Does such a long spindle blend emulate this, or is it just personal preference?
Cheers