Don the Beachcomber Secret Recipe
for the Original Mai Tai

Circa 1932

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 ounces Myer's Plantation Rum *
• 1 ounce Cuban Rum*
• 3/4 ounce fresh lime juice
• 1 ounce fresh grapefruit juice
• 1/4 ounce Flaernum
• 1/2 ounce Cointreau
• 2 dashes Angostura Bitters
• 1 dash Pernod shell of squeezed lime
• 1 cup cracked ice (size of a dime)

Instructions

1. Shake for one minute on medium speed.
2. Serve in double old fashion glass.
3. Garnish with four sprigs mint.
4. Add a spear of pineapple.
5. Sip slowly through mint sprigs until desired effect results.

Notes

* Recommended Rum Substitutes:
1 1/2 ounces Appleton Estate
1 ounce British Navy-style rum, such as Pusser's or Lamb's

Attribution

Phoebe Beach - Don the Beachcomber, Honolulu, Hawaii