National Rum Day 2022: The Perfect Mai Tai
The Mai Tai is this timeless and elegant tropical cocktail that magnifies the flavour of rum. In this recipe, we use Appleton Estate Reserve 8-Year-Old Rum. You can also find this recipe in the Gentologie Magazine Issue 10.
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The 8 Year Old Appleton Estate Reserve Rum-based Mai Tai
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The Mai Tai cocktail
Photo: Appleton Estate
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For this National Rum Day, what could be better than a refreshing cocktail since this day is a very hot one.
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Ingredients
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- 2 oz 8 Year Old Appleton Estate Reserve
- 1/2 oz Fresh lime juice
- 1/2 oz Grand Marnier
- 1/2 oz Orgeat Syrup
- + Ice
- + Lime shell and fresh mint sprig
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Method to succeed the 8 Year Old Appleton Reserve 8 ans
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The tools needed to create your Mai Tai
Photo: Appleton Estate
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- Combine all ingredients in a shaker filled with ice (crushed and cubes).
- Shake until chilled and pour into a double old fashioned glass.
- Garnish with one lime shell and fresh mint sprig.
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Learn more about rum
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Rum is a particular spirit, it is not, like whisky, very regulated. It’s quite open and the places that can produce rum are varied. Even the ingredients and the method are. Anyway, I learned a lot from this video by Anders Erickson.
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He also speaks, at 3:10 p.m., of Appleton Estate rum, which is a blend of two distillation techniques. They combine traditional copper still distillation, which gives the rum its characteristic orange peel top note, and modern column still distillation to create a balanced rum rich in flavour. They don’t hide it either. Some distilleries are unfortunately not as transparent with the contents of their rum, as Mr. Erickson mentions in his video.
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Happy National Rum day and enjoy your Mai tai tasting!
