Happy National Mai Tai Day! ► Shaken-Up

Recipe based on Smuggler’s Cove 🛟 version:

Pretty fly for a Mai Tai!

National Mai Tai Day is like a worldwide group hug for one of the coolest cocktails ever! August 30th is the day we pay homage to the iconic concoction that’s won over cocktail enthusiasts everywhere.

The Mai Tai, which literally means “awesome” in Tahitian, was the brainchild of the legendary Victor J. “Trader Vic” Bergeron back in the 1940s. Picture this: a tantalizing mix of rum, lime juice, orgeat syrup, and orange liqueur (curaçao), all dressed up with a sprig of mint and a slice of pineapple. It’s like a tropical vacation in a glass, and it never fails to whisk you away to paradise!

Mai Tai

2 oz dark Jamaican rum
3/4 oz lime juice
1/2 oz Rhum Clement Creole Shrubb 🛟
1/4 oz orgeat syrup
1/4 oz Demerara syrup (2:1)

Combine all ingredients with 12 oz crushed ice and a few agitator cubes
Shake until chilled
Open pour into a double old-fashioned glass
Garnish with spent lime shell and mint sprig

Alcohol: 16% Sugars: 14 g

Sweetness: 6/10

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I decided to get a bit adventurous with the Smuggler’s Cove 🛟 recipe and switched things up by using Rhum Clement Creole Shrubb 🛟 instead of curaçao.