Mai Tai

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Mai Tai according to a historical recipe
Mai Tai with 17 year old Jamaican rum (LPS Long Pond), served on an ice ball.

Mai Tai is a globally popular rum - cocktails and long drinks , its classic ingredients are rum, lime juice , orange liqueur and almond syrup ( orgeat ). The name refers to the Tahitian adjective maita'i "good" in a changed spelling .

history

Like the zombie , the Mai Tai is counted among the Tiki drinks. This means that it by no means comes from Hawaii , the South Seas or Polynesia , but was created in the continental USA to serve romantic clichés about an exotic island paradise.

Victor Bergeron alias Trader Vic claimed to have invented Mai Tai in San Francisco in 1944 . Allegedly he mixed it for two good friends from Tahiti, Carrie and Eastham Guild, who are said to have exclaimed: Mai Tai Roa Ae , which roughly means: "Out of this world - the best". However, he did not publish the recipe until 1972 in his book "Trader Vic's Bartender's Guide - Revised".

In addition to Bergeron, there are a number of other people or cocktail bars who claim to have invented Mai Tai:

On the one hand, there is “Don the Beachcomber”, who verifiably opened the first tiki-style bar and was considered Vic's biggest competitor. In his restaurants, the Mai Tai is said to have been invented before Bergeron's variant under the name Mai Tai Swizzle . However, other ingredients such as pomegranate juice , Angostura and Pernod were also found in Don's variant . There was even a legal dispute between Don the Beachcomber and Victor Bergeron, which Bergeron was able to win through an out-of-court settlement.

On the other hand, the bar at The Royal Hawaiian Hotel claims to have prepared this drink as early as the 1920s.

Bergeron, on the other hand, wrote in his "Bartender's Guide" from 1972: "Anybody who says I didn't create this drink is a dirty stinker" ("Anyone who claims that I didn't create the Mai Tai is a dirty creep.") .

Recipe

Trader Vic's original recipe originally consisted - converted into international units - of 6  cl of Jamaica rum from the Wray & Nephew brand that had been aged for 17 years , 1.5 cl Curaçao (orange liqueur), 0.75 cl Orgeat , 0.75 cl sugar syrup and 2 cl freshly squeezed lime juice . All ingredients are shaken with ice cubes in a cocktail shaker, strained over crushed ice in a glass and decorated with a sprig of mint . When the rum originally used was no longer available, Bergeron replaced it with another Jamaican rum and half with a Martinique rum.

Web links

Wikibooks: Cocktails / _Mai Tai  - learning and teaching materials

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Glosbe German-Tahitian: good
  2. ↑ "Trader Vic's Bartender's Guide - Revised," Doubleday & Company, 1972, pp. 162-164.
  3. ↑ Jens Hasenbein; The Tiki era In: Mixology - magazine for bar culture , special edition: 200 years of Cocktail, 2006. pp. 69–71.
  4. ↑ Rene Kronsteiner; Cocktail story: Mai Tai. In: Mixology - Magazine for Bar Culture No. 6, The Tiki Issue, 2004. p. 33.
  5. ↑ Perfect Drinks
  6. ^ "Trader Vic's Bartender's Guide - Revised," Doubleday & Company, 1972, p. 163.