The Most LEGENDARY Mai Tais

today on barfly we are going deep into the mai tai i'm talking we are going super deep into the mai tai a few months ago i had said something about doing a a video on just my thai riffs and i still want to do that but then i was just thinking about it i was like i can't do my thai riffs unless i do all of the classic mai tais so today we are gonna show you every mai tai from trader vic's original all the way through the 1970s [Music] my name is leandro demonriva this is the educated barfly yes i'm number three let's get into making the cocktails so of course the first my tire that we're going to be doing today is the original mai tai created by vic bergeron aka trader vic and a really cool little fun fact about this cocktail is that apparently it was so popular when it was invented that it led to a worldwide shortage of rum in the mid to late 40s and 50s i just read that i don't know if that's true but if it's if so then that's a lot of my ties all right let's get into making the cocktail some lime action so first things first we're gonna do one ounce of lime juice quarter ounce simple syrup quarter ounce oresha quarter ounce orange curacao and then we're going to do a blend of rums because the original had two ounces of rae and nephew 17 year which doesn't exist anymore actually i think there's one bottle in the internet and it's 55 000 if anyone wants to bid on it but because we're not gonna spend fifty five thousand dollars on uh on a mai tai we're gonna split the difference between uh an ounce of martinique rum and an ounce of jamaican rum but if you do you can go to our patreon oh yeah if you do you can wait if you do bid on it you can go to our patreon and what give it to us yeah if you want us to buy it you can go to our patreon oh give us the 55 grand and we'll yeah you could do that so what we're going to do is we're going to do one ounce of appleton estate signature one ounce of martinique rum agricole we are using clement put a little skosh of pebble and then give it a nice whip shake [Music] the old dumpy poo right into the glass like so fill the glass up with pebble ice like so an easter island straw from from surf side sips get a little mint and a big enough bush mary so let's strip all these little bottom leaves off so that we just have the sprig and that's what you want give it the old slappy poo give the old crushy pants and we're going to place that into the glass like so and then we're going to take a spent lime we're just going to put that spent lime right there and basically this is supposed to kind of sit i put a lot of ice in here but this is supposed to kind of sit inside the glass and what this is supposedly supposed to represent is a palm tree and an island right there to kind of just give you the the sort of the the island vibe so there is the original mai tai okay marius come over here and do your job so let's have this have a sip kind of drink it down a little bit give us some give us some flavor profiles what we got it's very citrusy very citrusy very boozy very boozy little sweets and really seriously you don't taste any of the nuances in the sweet like there's simple syrup in there there's orange curacao in there there's there's there's orga i don't really taste the orange thing yeah maybe it's a little mint i think he's just trying to drink more that's what it is there's there's four more drinks to coming up so you might as well pace yourself there buddy it's good i don't know it tastes like a mitai i guess to take your word for it and there you have it guys money cannot buy a more sensitive pallet i guess all right well there it is i look forward to the rest of your tasting notes marius for the rest of these cocktails that we got going on today so the next one is the don the beach comber recipe from the mid 1950s according to jeff beech bumberry who is the basically the historian of all of these drinks and did all the research don the beachcomber would have come up with this particular mai tai in response to the popularity of trader vic's mai tai is just at that point my ties were so popular that he had to have one on his menu to give to the masses and this is what he did so first thing we're gonna do is we're gonna do uh one dash of angostura bitters and six drops of absinthe cut up this bad boy and we're going to do one ounce of grapefruit juice i like to use the ruby red although i'm pretty sure that don the beachcomber always use white grapefruit for me it's a little bit bitter and if you want to do the original version definitely use white grapefruit i like to use the ruby red grapefruits myself so that's what i'm gonna do then we're gonna do three quarters of an ounce of lime juice now let's get into the booze we're gonna do quarter of an ounce of falairnum half an ounce of cointreau one ounce of dark cuban rum we are using the havana club seven year but if you want to use like you know bacardi eight or something you can find you can do that as well and then one and a half ounces of jamaican rum add a little scotia pebble we're gonna do the same shake and dump technique just add that in give it a nice shake [Music] all right marius i have my doubts about this glass but it says old-fashioned glass and this is a 13-ounce glass so this is a lot of liquid is it gonna fit proper look at that and then we're just going to i mean it says pineapple spear right pineapple spear and then a luxarta cherry we're gonna do the luxardo chairs they would have been using in the 50s which are these guys right here um which i gotta say man i mean i know everyone kind of takes the piss out of these but i gotta say i real just the bright red really makes me happy all right come on through oh yeah it's very full oh man you're spilling everywhere what do you think it's pretty similar it's boozier i think well it's a there's more boots in here yeah yeah but overall it's very similar yeah it's a little bit more acidic uh we gotta clean up the workstation my friend and there's a lot of spillage right there um all right well there you have it there you have it yeah similar i love these tasting notes i can't wait till i'm off this diet and i can and i can have booze again so that i can actually do proper tasting so after he complained that the other one stole his recipe he stole his recipe and made something almost the same yes provided that this recipe was stolen right there you go that's what he cleans all right next my tie up is from the contiki from 1961 and this is actually a little unfair because this one is obviously a riff on the beachcomber so it's kind of crazy how like you know trader vic did this really nice drink and then you got beach homer that came in and sort of changed it up quite a bit and then the next riff is off the beachcomber recipe and not the trader vic recipe i just find that kind of interesting especially because i think the trader vic recipe is the better recipe you know just like balance wise and everything but you know who am i to say so first thing we're gonna do is six drops of absinthe one dash of angostura bitters then we're gonna get into our juices we're going to do three quarters of an ounce of lime juice three quarters of an ounce of orange juice three quarters of an ounce of honey syrup a quarter of an ounce of ginger syrup one and a half ounces of puerto rican gold rum we are using ronde berlito today another one and a half ounces of jamaican rum here and as you can see we are going to be using our hamilton beach and flash blending so where's our scooby poo right in front of you that's what happens when something's right in front of you and you're looking around the other thing that i i noticed that i did is i put the simple syrup here and it's for the next recipe not for this one there you go i like to i'd like to say that i'm i'm on top of things marius so it's going to give us a good scoop of ice actually since we're flash blending and then we're going to do this for no more than five seconds according to uh beach bum berry sure faster one two three four five all right i did it for six or seven but i like that look at that you get that nice can you see that that nice aeration but those were very very short seconds were they well good i went two seconds over so that was about five seconds it's okay my seconds can be short top this up like so so grab our nice mint tops pull these off slap it with crushy pants voila all right let's get a straw and let's have our expert guy with the most sensitive palette ever taste these here you go look at this really nice one's got a little skull in it for day of the dead i don't think we've actually used the straw yet but it's a nice one there you go enjoy that this is drink it that's how you drink it i guess yeah what do you think it's different what does it taste like it's got the burning sensation of something important yeah what is it like the ethanol from the rump it's the boost yeah maybe the rum the rum is a little you know bitey bitey butter yeah the bitey on the rum do you get that little any of the ginger in there it's like ginger i don't think this is the ginger oh the ginger just would be pretty bitey and it's more yeah orangey and orangey yeah i mean there's three quarters there are some orange juice in there so well there it is that's it yeah bitey from the ginger and orangey oh the other thing that i wanted to mention in this video is that the glassware is just specialty glassware so i decided to use this nice trader j sam's i almost said trader jams for some reason i like to use this trader sam's mug that i got in my last trip to disney which was a long time ago now because disney's been close but now it's reopened guys so the next mai tai we're doing is from the surf bar at the royal hawaiian hotel in waikiki beach this one dates back to about 1971. this is the last my time that we're doing today and this particular bar is where trader vic first introduced his uh mai tai in the 1950s to the islands really over time the the recipe changed and we have our present version what we're doing today i also suspect i don't know this for a fact and marius doesn't like it when i say things that i don't know for a fact but that i have heard right that the hawaiian mai tai includes pineapple juice and so when you get a mai tai in hotels in hawaii you usually get a mai tai with pineapple juice and this seems like this could very well be the genesis of that idea all right so first thing we're going to do is one ounce of pineapple juice half an ounce of lime juice one ounce of orange juice a quarter of an ounce of lemon juice a quarter of an ounce of simple syrup a quarter of an ounce of orega that was a little that was kind of a fat quarter but okay we'll we'll dump the rest there quarter of an ounce of orange curacao one ounce light rum and one ounce of demerara rum i don't know marius the recipe says pour this unstrained into an old-fashioned glass the old-fashioned glasses that we had like i said earlier are 13 ounces but this is so much liquid i feel like we need to put this into a collins glass or tiki i said tiki a tea i mean we could put it into a tiki glass too what do we got uh hey coconut coconut the coconut this guy is like around the right ounces it's a coconut it's not like branded with some other bar i like the coconut we're doing the coconut all right so we're just gonna do a little skosh like we do [Music] give this guy a nice i mean now that i feel it this actually might even be small there's a lot of liquid in here you know maybe instead i don't know if i can reach it man i got to get the ladder i was thinking this guy rum barrel guy this is actually a very rare mug we got from plantation rum some of you lucky uh mystery box viewers might have one yes i don't know why you mentioned that though because we don't do mystery boxes anymore we might do in the future all right this is way too much for a uh for an old fashioned glass though so we're just gonna pour that unstrained oh yes perfect mug for it too fill that bad boy up with some pebble and we're gonna do a mint sprig like that but then it also calls for an orchid if you have one which we don't and it calls for a cane sugar stick which we don't have which we we don't have actually you know what i think you actually brought cane sugar sticks from hawaii last time you were there and they're probably somewhere in here yeah they're probably in that bin right there but and then also a finger of pineapple which we're going to do like so oh you know what i think i see them in the other bin right there other than left on the left bin sugar cane swizzle sticks we gotta cut these down because they're straight from hawaii sort of with uh detour with the detour not a detour just long time yeah it's been a long time yeah now we finally use them and you know what would have been really sad is if you hadn't found them we would have never used them and you you actually went to the trouble to get them just cut a little bit off of it wow look at that it's full that is it's very full there you go haha the only thing we're missing is the orchid but that's fine all right marius get rid of some of this volume for us please there you go that was a nice big step how'd it go what do you think let's get let's try and get detailed on this one man let's try and get detailed it's much lighter in flavor than the other ones it's not like it's not as heavy it's not heavy crazy there's three rums in this one so this one's uh yeah it's not as boozy but it's also it's lighter rum oh you got the light rum you got the ronda baralito which comes in oh not the rumba building sorry that was the last one you got your jamaican rum all right but then uh this demerara is 86 proof this is such good stuff right here oh yeah no it's not boozy and it's not it's not super citrusy like the other ones oh i think you like this one you've taken more sips of it than the other ones or like you've take taken more intentional sips or something yeah this is pretty good this one and the first one maybe all right well there you have it marius just take talks he doesn't talk about flavor for as well he just talks about preference this is my preference i like this one this one's good this one's bad it's not it's not super it's not a sweet and it's not as acidic as the other one so well there it is that's my yeah all right cool all right i wish i could taste it i can't wait till i can there it is guys the royal hawaiian 1971 mai tai and the last of the classic variations all right so let's end this video with a little bit of history of the mai tai it was created in 1954 by uh victor bergeron aka trader vic uh at his restaurant of the same name and the legend has it that he had some friends in from tahiti and he was testing out this drink and he gave it to them and when one of them sipped it he got up and exclaimed mai tayaroa e which loosely translates to out of this world the best upon the success of the mai tai don the beachcomber got angry and decided that trader vic who i guess had been a regular at don the beachcombers in hollywood still had stolen his recipe he claimed that trader vic had stolen the recipe for don the beach comer's drink the qb cooler and kind of fashioned it into his own thing today we would call that not theft but a rift on a different cocktail and the thing is is that the other thing that kind of you know kind of goes against don beach in this particular circumstance is that he was notoriously secretive of his recipes and that's not to say that somebody that worked at don the beach commerce didn't you know pass trader vic the recipe for the qb cooler but it just doesn't seem that likely that somebody would do that it's not impossible but it's not really likely and then the other thing is that the qb cooler is just a wholly different drink it has a few similarities but really it's a wholly different drink so even if he was inspired by the qb cooler it's definitely not theft i would say that i think that's all i got on the mai tai i hope you guys make these drinks and really enjoy them if you like this channel please hit like and subscribe check us out on patreon and youtube memberships check out our website the educatedbarflight.com for merch we've got articles there we've got a virtual bottle program that'll put you into the action big papa will scream you out if the uh in not scream you out but big papa will yell you out big papa don't scream big papa yells pretty loud yeah well yeah but screaming and yelling are two different things and being loud is also another different thing i am admittedly a loud person but you know what you guys love it anyway before this gets into a little bit of banter between marius i'm going to sign out so i'll see you guys on another time

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Length: 17min 52sec (1072 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 17 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/ChiefBobbert]

Got a Cheesecake Factory mai tai last night...I wake up and this is here to shame me.

[u/LazerMcBlazer]

I love unnecessary apostrophes

[u/BranfordBound]

That last Mai Tai, the Hawaiian one, actually sounds like a nice riff and would be pretty tasty. I'm a bit curious about the other two with the inclusion of absinthe and ginger syrups etc.

[u/Dr_ChimRichalds]

Worst tasting notes ever.

[u/LouBrown]

Can't believe they didn't include the Red Bull Mai Tai!

[u/henryb22]

I would have used a blend of jamaican rums or part denizen for the 44' recipe, rhum Agricole is a very recent edition to the mai tai. My rum blend is some parts appleton, Smith and Cross, OFTD and denizens merchants reserve. Once I get Dr Bird might throw that in too.

[u/speedle62]

That guy.