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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...
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.
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.