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Mai Tai (Beaumont-Gantt's)

It is claimed that Ernest Raymond Beaumont-Gantt first served this cocktail in 1933 at his Don The Beachcomber's bar in Hollywood, California. This is...
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Calvin Grant’s Avatar Calvin Grant
26th June 2025 at 03:11
For me this was excellent. Plenty excellent. Probably a good thing I was out of S&C or it might have been a bit too excellent. 15ml Rum Fire, 30ml Myers's, 30ml Carta Blanca, Velvet, Combier. Nicely dryish, slightly bitter. Perfect.
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Calvin Grant’s Avatar Calvin Grant
15th April at 02:49
30ml Stade's light, 30ml S&C, 5ml Rum fire, 10ml Myers's, 5ml Hamilton 86. Yum! So nice on all that ice!
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John Hinojos’ Avatar John Hinojos
4th October 2024 at 01:55
Loved this. Not a fan of mint, but I do not remember the mai tai at Don the Beachcomber restaurants having mint (yes I am that old).
When you leave out the mint the spicy nature of the Angostura bitters comes through.
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Alex Grieb’s Avatar Alex Grieb
7th February 2024 at 19:19
I didn't like this variation very much. A lot of the flavours get lost, and it is quite dry. It felt like a slightly bitter daiquiri with a lot of extra steps. I used smith and cross overproof and havana club 3 years for the rums, cointreau and velvet falernum.
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Anton Efimov’s Avatar Anton Efimov
10th April 2023 at 19:41
К сожалению без оршада не очень. Можно смело добавлять сахарный сироп или лайм сокращать на треть. Может раньше фалернум или куантро были послаще. (Использовал bitter truth Falernum)
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Mariusz Twardowski’s Avatar Mariusz Twardowski
1st October 2022 at 18:11
Brilliant! Using S&C and omitting orgeat are quite bold changes from the more common recipe and yet the drink still feels like a mai tai while having a much spicier edge...
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What Zit Tooya’s Avatar What Zit Tooya
9th March 2022 at 07:54
Where'd you source this recipe from? Beachbum Berry's listing (taken from the recipe book by Donn Beach's widow Phoebe) has some different ratios, plus 6 drops of Pernod and no muddled mint. Curious where things might've diverged.
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John Hinojos’ Avatar John Hinojos
24th May 2022 at 00:38
I have the same books, but one thing we all need to remember about Donn Beach's cocktails, is that nothing was ever written down by specific ingredients. It was by coded ingredients. When he died no one actually new all the ingredients.
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