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Drink · 6 min · 1 rocks glass

Mai Tai

Aged rum, orange liqueur, lime and orgeat. No pineapple juice, no grenadine — the original is a rum sour with almond in it.

The sheet · 1 rocks glass · 6 min

medium

Why tonight. Aged rum, orange liqueur, lime and orgeat. No pineapple juice, no grenadine — the original is a rum sour with almond in it.

What it needs

Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.

  • rum
  • cointreau
  • lime
  • orgeat

Method

  1. 1 oz aged rum, 1 oz dark Jamaican rum, ¾ oz lime, ½ oz orange curaçao, ½ oz orgeat.
  2. Shake with crushed ice and pour it all into the glass, unstrained.
  3. Two rums, and no pineapple juice. There is no fruit juice in a Mai Tai except lime, whatever a resort has told you.
  4. Mint sprig and the spent lime shell on top, so it looks like an island. That part is allowed.

An educational pour, not a reprint of a licensed spec. No allergen or alcohol-safety claim.

Cook or pour it, then edit the shelf if you emptied a bottle or used the last of something.

Why each of these is on the list

What the ingredients are actually doing

rum
The widest spirit on the shelf.
cointreau
Clean bitter orange with real sweetness behind it, so it does two jobs in a sour and lets you use less syrup.
lime
Sharper and more floral than lemon, and it fades faster — juice it the same hour you use it.
orgeat
Almond syrup with a floral edge, and it brings texture as much as sweetness — it is what gives a tiki drink its soft, thick mouthfeel.

Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.

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