if you're making a mai tai with instant mix and flavored rum you're doing it all wrong the biggest mistake people make when making a mai tai is everything mai tai mix don't even bother there's no pineapple juice in a mai tai and if you ever get a pink mai tai that means there's grenadine in it and that's wrong the next thing you're doing wrong is the rum white rum coconut rum mango rum whatever these are all artificially flavored junk and now you've got all this and you're gonna throw it in a blender no the mai tai is not a slushy frozen drink and finally mai tai does it come in a hurricane glass this is an urban street trader Vic would spin in his grave now I'm going to show you the right way to make a mai tai juice 3/4 of an ounce of fresh lime juice into your mixing glass next out a quarter of an ounce of rock candy syrup rock candy serve is different from simple syrup and then it's 2 parts of sugar to one part of water add a quarter of an ounce of orsha or jaw's a French almond syrup with a little subtle hint of orange and rose flower water next add half an ounce of orange Curacao this adds a really lovely fresh orange peel flavor to it and finally add 2 ounces of a premium aged rum we make our Maya ties with appleton estate twelve-year a Jamaican rum blended with El Dorado Demerara but you can use any kind of premium aged rum to create the flavor profile you enjoy fill the glass with crushed ice and shake vigorously until you get a little frost on the metal half of your shaker that's how you know your drink is chilled aerated diluted and perfect for the entire contents into a double old-fashioned glass to garnish the might I add one half of the spent lime shelf take a good-sized sprig of fresh mint give it a little slap between the palm of your hand this way when you're drinking the mai tai you really enjoy that minty fresh aroma and the peel oil from that spent lime shell it's an integral part of the drink plus if the trader set looks like the little tropical island with a little palm tree floating right on top of your drink if you've done it all right you'll be left with the flawless balance of fresh vibrant lime juice and a premium rum speaking loud and clear and tasting beautiful