What Did You Drink Last Night?

[SteveAS]

I've been doing a little tasting of the ten different Four Roses bourbon mash recipes. Last night's was a barre3l-strength, single-barrel OESO recipe. It was the best Four Roses I've tasted.

 

[Cliffnopus]

A double Mai Tai last night using the original recipe from the man who invented it.

A proper Mai Tai:

1oz Jamaican rum (Appleton Estate is good)
1oz Martinique rum (Rhum St. James is good) [light and dark rum]
1/2 oz orange curacao (not the blue stuff)
1/4 oz Orgeat syrup (not creme de almond)
1/4 oz sugar syrup (and Vic puts a little vanilla in his)
the juice of one small lime (3/4 oz approx.)

Shake with crushed ice, serve in a rocks glass, garnish with a mint sprig, one pineapple spear, and a cocktail cherry.

And yes, it must have the mint garnish to be a mai tai. (I don't alway have the mint )

Cliff


Ps: Trader Vic (Victor Bergeron aka Trader Vic) won a court case that defined his recipe as the original!

 

[jamespowers]

A double Mai Tai last night using the original recipe from the man who invented it.

A proper Mai Tai:

1oz Jamaican rum (Appleton Estate is good)
1oz Martinique rum (Rhum St. James is good) [light and dark rum]
1/2 oz orange curacao (not the blue stuff)
1/4 oz Orgeat syrup (not creme de almond)
1/4 oz sugar syrup (and Vic puts a little vanilla in his)
the juice of one small lime (3/4 oz approx.)

Shake with crushed ice, serve in a rocks glass, garnish with a mint sprig, one pineapple spear, and a cocktail cherry.

And yes, it must have the mint garnish to be a mai tai. (I don't alway have the mint )

Cliff


Ps: Trader Vic (Victor Bergeron aka Trader Vic) won a court case that defined his recipe as the original!

My old 1944 recipe calls for 2 ounces of the J.Wray and Nephew 17 year old rum. I also use the Trader Vic Rock Candy Syrup. You can't get the 17 year old anymore but you can use J. Wray if you can find it. I think they are connected with Appleton so it might be a good substitute.

The Original Trader Vic Formula - 1944

• 2 oz of 17-year old J. Wray & Nephew Rum over shaved ice
• Add juice from one fresh lime
• 1/2 oz Holland DeKuyper Orange Curacao
• 1/4 oz Trader Vic's Rock Candy Syrup
• 1/2 oz French Garnier Orgeat Syrup
• Shake vigorously.
• Add a sprig of fresh mint

Your recipe sounds like the 1972 recipe.

They are both good but I hate the ones that have pineapple and orange juice in them.

 

[Mr Badger]

Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, very possibly my favourite beer, which I'm glad to say that Waitrose sell in the UK...

And the last of the Illy espresso I bought for Christmas...

 

[Cliffnopus]

They are both good but I hate the ones that have pineapple and orange juice in them.

Agreed. Not many bars know how to make a Mai Tai without a pre-mixed slurry of who-knows-what. I almost edited out the recipes rum callouts as being too defined. Any good light and dark rum would work well, I use whatever I have. Right now that's Mount Gay Barbadan Rum and Myers dark.

Cliff

 

[jamespowers]

Agreed. Not many bars know how to make a Mai Tai without a pre-mixed slurry of who-knows-what. I almost edited out the recipes rum callouts as being too defined. Any good light and dark rum would work well, I use whatever I have. Right now that's Mount Gay Barbadan Rum and Myers dark.

Cliff

I use whatever rum I have as well. At the moment it is Montecristo or 10 Cane but I am just out of Wray.
Callouts are never too defined when you want a drink to be exactly like what you had at a bar or a friend's house.

 

[Ethan Bentley]

New Years Night, kicked off with "Contemplations over a Double Bourbon" with some other Bond fans (Goldfinger Chapter Title), a Millionaire's Gimlet, some Passion Fruit Rum (also very popular) and some Grog. (Well it was a Pirate Murder Mystery and as "Governor-General Gimlet" I needed my fix of lime.)

 

[Black Dahlia]

I drank some yummy things over the holidays: hard cider, ice wine, Fruli (beer), red wine, champagne... Didn't have any drinks on New Year's eve though. Will need a drink tonight, as it's my first day back at work! Eeek!

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[rkwilker]

Buffalo Trace/rocks

 

[Wally_Hood]

For most of December my brother-in-law and his missus were visiting with us. During that time I introduced them to classic cocktails, some of which they had never heard of- Old Fashioned, Whisky Sour, Tom Collins, Manhattan, Boston Side Car. They enjoyed them all, and when they returned home to Canada, I got a call from him asking where to buy simple syrup. I told him how to make his own.

 

[jamespowers]

For most of December my brother-in-law and his missus were visiting with us. During that time I introduced them to classic cocktails, some of which they had never heard of- Old Fashioned, Whisky Sour, Tom Collins, Manhattan, Boston Side Car. They enjoyed them all, and when they returned home to Canada, I got a call from him asking where to buy simple syrup. I told him how to make his own.

That was nice of you. I make my own as well. The only thing I buy in that range is Trader Vics Rock Candy Syrup. I just can't do it as good as he does.

 

[rumblefish]

I made a Vesper with Cocchi Americano as a substitute for Kina Lillet. A heck of a lot better than Lillet Blanc. I think the Lillet Blanc killed a lot of the gin's botanicals with it's sweetness whereas the Cocchi's bitterness enhanced it.

 

[jamespowers]

I made a Vesper with Cocchi Americano as a substitute for Kina Lillet. A heck of a lot better than Lillet Blanc. I think the Lillet Blanc killed a lot of the gin's botanicals with it's sweetness whereas the Cocchi's bitterness enhanced it.

:eeek::eusa_doh:James Bond is coming for you.

 

[rumblefish]

:eeek::eusa_doh:James Bond is coming for you.

The bar is ready for all palates! Spearmint gin anyone???

 

[jamespowers]

The bar is ready for all palates! Spearmint gin anyone???

Spearmint gin!? Does the blasphemy never end?

 

[Black Dahlia]

I haven't been feeling well, thus haven't partaken in drinks, so sadly can't contribute to my favourite thread!
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[Danny Ocean]

Sunday night was back to the "OHDH", so it was a G'n'T, as follows:

Double measure (50ml): Tanqueray Rangpur gin (Rangpur rather than the usual Tanq 10).
Four ice cubes.
Lime wedge, squeezed.
Indian Tonic.
Large glass.
Comfy chair.

BD - I would never have guessed, that this might be your favourite thread!

Danny O

 

[Black Dahlia]

Sunday night was back to the "OHDH", so it was a G'n'T, as follows:

Double measure (50ml): Tanqueray Rangpur gin (Rangpur rather than the usual Tanq 10).
Four ice cubes.
Lime wedge, squeezed.
Indian Tonic.
Large glass.
Comfy chair.

BD - I would never have guessed, that this might be your favourite thread!

Danny O

Danny O,

What? On a School night? I hardly think that teacher approves! ;0 Those OHDHs sound stupendous!
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[Danny Ocean]

Danny O,

What? On a School night? I hardly think that teacher approves! ;0 Those OHDHs sound stupendous!
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BD,

Whoops......"red-handed"! I'm guessing it's "lines" then, and not detention?

I'll add the "OHDH" to The List?!

Danny O
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[Black Dahlia]

BD,

Whoops......"red-handed"! I'm guessing it's "lines" then, and not detention?

I'll add the "OHDH" to The List?!

Danny O
x

Danny O,
*lol* Did you think I wouldn't see? He he. Yes, that's right Mr., 1000 lines of 'OHDH' on the blackboard!
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