what's happening everybody let's start again hi i'm your host jason t smith the big kahuna and i'll make it at home tiki drinks and this will be a first in a series i hope so tonight i'm bringing you cocktails straight from the den of sim that is our home bar and you will be seeing the medicine logo again in a minute what is happening don't edit yeah i gotta edit that that silence out so i'm going to be making the surf room my title the surf room was in the royal hawaiian which is the only picture i got to is a book falling apart oh my oh that is the royal hawaiian it is the big pink palace in waikiki beach it's been there for hundreds of years and uh trader vic was the man who invented the mai tai it's a little debatable some people say he kind of borrowed a drink from down the beach comer and changed it but i do believe he invented it whether he borrowed a little bit of it is up for debate always will be uh and a typical mai tai his mai tai is just a few ingredients rum curacao lime and maybe a little simple syrup but the royal hawaiian hotel in waikiki hired him to make a different version of the mai tai that would highlight the juices of the island and that's unfortunately where the downfall of mai tai came to be but his version is really really good and it's our home bar mai tais when we make the most so that's what i'm making for you this evening first thing you're gonna need is a double rocks glass and preferably one with the denison logo glasses for sale very soon uh and crushed ice now typically when you shake a cocktail you want to chill it not dilute it so a good mixologist will shake a cocktail with big chunks of ice in the mai tai because we have three ounces of rum you want it shaken with crushed ice because it will dilute it a little bit and even it out a little bit so this is a time when you want crushed ice so also you want more ice than your glass will hold because it's going to dilute a little bit so when you ship a package for ebay you don't want to fill it right to the top you want to fill it a little bit higher so when you push it down it locks it all in ice is the exact same way so there is our ice oh i love the song all right our first ingredient is two ounces or one ounce of orange juice and one ounce of pineapple juice i use the dull orange pineapple combo so basically i got two ounces ready to rock and roll next is the recipe calls for half an ounce of lime juice one quarter ounce of lemon juice we change it to all lime juice so it's three quarters of an ounce of lime juice delivery please uh and and here is the key to any good cocktail fresh squeezed limes lemons if it calls for the drink even orange pineapple's only one that's too hard to squeeze and everyone that runs the bar will tell you just buy quality unsweetened pineapple juice a man when it calls for lemons and limes always fresh squeezed no bottled stuff it's crap all right the next three ingredients are a quarter ounce of uh or shot which is an almond syrup you can usually find it in the liquor store or the coffee aisle of your grocery store a quarter ounce of rock candy syrup or simple syrup uh and i need to up my game on my job these these uh trader vics aren't all that quality uh but you also need a quarter ounce of curacao this is a pretty good curacao it's an orange flavored liqueur so a quarter ounce of each of those so it's three quartiles total i already have it all together to make the prep go easier and now we're to the fun part our rounds so when you make tikki cocktails it doesn't just call for rum it is very specific don beech down the beachcomber and trader vic really figured out how to make rums play with each other so it wasn't just rum so this rum calls for an ounce of light puerto rican rum an ounce of dark jamaican rum and an ounce of demerara rum all three different types of rums and when combined together work really well together now this is what you commonly think of as puerto rican rum i do not like bacardi this is uh it's a little too harsh you could use uh don q don q is pretty good but i switched out puerto rican rum for virgin island rum and i use croissant because cruise nice and smooth so one ounce of cruisan what's the shipping on one of those secondly is dark jamaican rum now this is kind of the norm pretty much anywhere you live you can pick this up a lot of rum drinkers don't care for myers but in this drink it works really well but tonight i'm actually uh using kuruba kruba dark is pretty good too and then if i'm feeling feeling if i'm celebrating something they don't make this anymore i will use this 10 year myers which is called legend and it's pretty good as you can see the dust i don't drink it too often only for special occasions so one ounce of the koruba dark and then the last thing you need is a demerara rum which would probably be the toughest one to find el dorado five year is a perfect rum for this i'm out of five year so i'm gonna step up my game tonight i'm using el dorado 15 here so demerara rum dark jamaican rum and light puerto rican rum is what makes this an awesome mai tai i've had many mai tai snobs at my house for for my ties and they're like i ain't drinking no mai tai with juice and then i make this and they're like oh that's good but give it a good shake all right you should feel the shaker nice and cold on your hand to the point you're like oh geez and then there we go get the glass out and then if we have a perfect pour it should be right to the top no spillage [Applause] oh dear so it wasn't a perfect pour i spilled a little bit now the last key to a really good uh mixed cocktail typically you would put in a couple plastic straws if you want to up your game to the next level you want a metal straw because what happens is when you have the metal straw every sip keeps it so cold you would not think the journey from the bottom of the glass to the top of the glass in a metal straw would change it all that much from a plastic it is amazing stasis had them in metal straws she can tell you too oh that is a damn good mai tai so that ladies and gentlemen oh i got some of my beard that is how you make the surf room mai tai for the royal hawaiian vic made it for them so it is a trader vic's my type it is just not the classic mai tai and since i haven't had a chance to check the chat i will now check the chat and see if there's any questions i can answer about making cocktails or especially this uh my time now i know some of you live in not populist places and and you know vegas we have lots of liquor stores and you can buy liquor anywhere in vegas so it is easy for us to get all these ingredients sometimes not so much so you might have to travel to big cities to get all the ingredients bob wants to know why i'm not putting the alcohol in first and the rest of stuff actually you should put the alcohol in first uh but i just didn't reverse order so how i set the bar up so don't follow my lead on that one put the put the rum in first now you should garnish it i did not pick up any garnish today because i actually have to go play poker in 30 minutes so so i was hot i totally forgot i was doing poker tonight when i said this little demonstration so i was hustling to get this done so no garnish as of right now but it is yummy now we will do a regular mai tai down the road and i'll probably bust out some special rum for that uh these are kind of like these are normal for the most part uh easy to pick up and kind of work horse rums for your mai tai but if you're gonna have a celebration sometimes you go to the top shelf and you bust out a special rum so any question oh so yeah um i have seen a mai tai with a creamy top what makes it creamy yeah that's i'm glad you said that if you have a mai tai that has anything red in it that's grenadine that is not a mai tai so what happened was they made this my time for the surf room and it's really good but at some point over the last 30 years it got so bastardized that it's like pineapple juice with a little bit of clear rum and then a float of dark rum with grenadine it's horrible so typically if you if you say hey is there grenadine in your my tie and they say yes run far away run run far away that part's bad but luckily people are starting to realize that a lot of my ties in hawaii aren't all that good and so a lot of the places in hawaii are up in their game to make better my times what oh so you see something creamy and frothy other than like you know when i put a good shake on it i've got a little froth but if you're seeing something more than that speak up come on what they make it some fancy way maybe that's what they're talking no they're not they're not so yeah um you should have a little froth with a good hard shake and you should shake it you know a good heart shake like i said this should be cold to the touch all right any other questions man i can tell you my the internet trolls that follow me around don't like me you don't even like watching cocktails being made who give me a thumbs down huh uh yes i have not figured out a mocktail recipe yet for this week's tiki webinar for the secret beach but i will uh but for those of you who are making this cocktail i know some of you are out shopping today for ingredients uh we might have to switch up some things if you can't find especially like the demerara room i can give you some alternative so in the secret beach if you want to hit me up i will be more happy to help you find a decent alternative because once you change a rum it's really not the drink you're supposed to be making but i fully understand in times of need you gotta switch some things out we've done it here in the house we go to uh tiki events where sometimes you run out something at a room party a friend's got something else that's pretty close so you just start making it with that uh that's pretty good probably uh using the appleton's as a sub for the demerara that's not that's not too bad it's not too bad but there's different appletons too so uh you know um there's uh the bottom entry level and then as you work your way up to get a little more rich in flavor a little smoother too probably not a good group discussion what cocktails so yeah the next tiki webinar for the secret beach is a week from wednesday my special guest my mom who's in the chat hi mom so there's not any more questions i'm going to say aloha from the den of sin thank you for tuning in for our first uh big cocktail making lesson i'm sorry about the second at the beginning but we will do it better next time and uh we will be doing uh we'll do zero special next i'm gonna go way back way back i'm gonna pick up one of my favorite cocktails 1940s not even really a tiki cocktail but it is rum based oh by the way i want to give a shout out to my boy beech bun berry the recipe came out of this book his book called intoxica yeah beach bum and we're gonna talk about him later on he pretty much is the man who revitalized the tiki uh cocktail culture and wrote the books uh on lost recipes so the surf room mai tai is in this specific book where i get it out of and uh cyril specials out of one of his books too uh so uh look around the interwebs and find books by beachbum berry if you want to uh if you want to make some of these cocktails and they're easy they're written up pretty well uh tells you exactly what you need and tells you also how to make it it'll tell you if you're shaking it with cubes or the crushed ice and also what kind of glass because that's the other little trick uh not every drink goes in the same glass this is a multi glass but for the zero special we're gonna be using something like like this oh that's dusty uh but so if you don't have a great glassware that's cool we do have a full bar here so we have all the right glassware but make do with what you have because it's all about enjoying the cocktail so don't fret too much if you don't have the right glassware that is i that is the least important part of this whole cocktail scheme it is getting the right ingredients mixing them well and then enjoy all right so for that i'm going to say aloo ha and we'll see you around facebook bye everybody and youtube see ya