In today's video, we will be making one of the world's most
fun and exciting cocktails, the Maitai. Now, if you've had a Maitai on vacation,
you probably haven't had a good one. So we will be making a proper Maitai. We're going to talk a little bit about its history and stay tuned to the very end
because we will discuss some of the popular variations
that still exist around this cocktail. Hi, I'm Chris from A Bar Above. I'm a 15 year veteran of the bar and somebody that loves making
fun and delicious cocktails. So we're going to make
the Maitai here in a second. But before we do, let's talk
quickly about its history. Now, in 1933, Donner Beach Comer launched his restaurant in LA
known as Beach Comers. Then, resturant tour Victor Bergeron visited it, and he was so enamored
with the concept that he changed out his restaurants to mirror those and have
more of a Tiki and Polynesian theme. So the restaurant that he
launched is called Trader Vicks. Now, in 1944, Trader Vicks released
a cocktail named the Mite tie. But Donnabeach thought that it
was actually his cocktail. So he took Trader Vik to court and eventually the courts decided that no,
Trader Vik s actually came up with his own cocktail and gave him
the rights to that Mite tie. So when you take a look at the two cocktails side by side,
Dona Beaches was the Cubic cooler and Trader Vik's was the Mite tie, you can
see similarities but differences as well. So I think this is the root of all the confusion about all the variations
that we see around the Mite tie. And we'll talk about those variations
later on in this video. But for now, let's go ahead
and make Trader Vicks Mai tai. To make Trader Vicks Mai tai, we're going to go ahead and build
everything in our cheater tom here. So we're going to go ahead
and get one ounce of white rum. Next, we're going to do three quarter ounce of Quantro, which is
an orange flavored liqueur. Three quarter ounce of lime juice. Half an ounce of Orgeat,
which is an almond flavored syrup. Then we're going to go
ahead and shake this up. Now at the same time, we're going to need some crushed
ice in our final serving glass. I'm going to go ahead
and get that prepared too. I have my Lewis bag here.
I'm going to go ahead and fill that up. And just let that sit on the side here. So once again, I'm going to go
ahead and shake this cocktail. And prepare my ice now. Pardon the noise. There we are. So now I feel all nice, calm and relaxed. Have some nice crushed ice here. I'm going to go ahead and add
that to my serving glass. And then I'm going to go ahead and fine strain the rest of that
over that fresh ice. That's perfect. Now I'm just going to save a little bit of room because I can put a dark rum
float right across the top here. The final ingredient is just a little
bit of dark rum float across the top. I'm just going to put my barstool in
at about an ounce. It's going to create that beautiful layered effect that's just
really beautiful and striking. Then to garnish, we're just
going to make it look fancy. I'm going to put some mint in there and a lime wheel as well. There we have Trader Bricks Maitai. Cheers. Now, let's talk about some of the more
popular variations on the Maitai. And we have a good news,
bad news scenario here. The good news is there are a lot of different variations
on this particular cocktail. The bad news is it's been bastardized. It's so many variations that there are
so many different ways you can have it. The main tune that we usually see
is something called pod juice. That is pineapple, orange juice and guava. It's really good, very tropical, and when you have fresh ingredients,
it really does shine. Now, the other one is using pineapple
orange juice and Grenadine. So if you've been on a tropical vacation
and your Maitai has been really sweet, delicious, has a pink Q to it,
that's probably the one you've had. So in the bar above,
we actually have our own favorite version, adding to the bastardization
of this particular cocktail. This cocktail is so good, though,
that Rob, our head of education, this is the cocktail that he
served at his wedding. So let's go ahead and make
that one show them. To make our version of the Maitai, we're going to start off
again with our cheater tint. And to that, we are going to go ahead
and add a full ounce of rum, full ounce of Quantro,
three quarter ounce of pineapple juice, three quarter ounce limes of lime juice,
and just a quarter ounce of lime juice. Just a quarter ounce of Orgeal. And we're going to go ahead
and shake that up now. So we got all that left over crushed ice from our camera session earlier,
so we're just going to use that. Pour that right into our glass here. Once again, we're going to save a little
bit of room for a dark rum float as well. We're going to finish off with one ounce
of our dark room. Once again, we're just going to go
ahead and make it pretty now. So we're going to add some mints
and we have some beautiful Edible flowers. We're going to add that right on there. Kind of like a Hawaiian lay. So there we have it. The O'Barber Maitai. Now for my favorite part of the videos here, we're going to do a side by side
between the traditional trade of Vicks Maitai and Rob's
version of the Maitai as well. So let's go ahead and give these
a proper stir and a taste. That's delicious. Nice to get a little bit of molasses from the rum, some nice tartness
from the lime and the orange. It gives it this nice, beautiful rich mouthfeel and a perfume
to the cocktail that's really good. All right, Rob, let's try yours. That's delicious. That's fantastic. So you get a lot of similar notes. You get the molasses from the rum, a little bit of sharpness from the lime
juice, but the perfume of the Orchard's there,
and the pineapple makes it much more round, if that makes sense,
much more tropical. So good job, Rob. This is fantastic. Definitely love this version,
but both are really good. So once again, traditional Maitai trader bricks and the Abar above version
of the Maitai as well. So there we have it. We made the Maitai, we've talked about its
history, and we've discussed some of the more popular variations,
including our own. So definitely put your favorite version
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