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So I remade this again Denizen Merchants Reserve 8 Year rum. Martin Cate of Smugglers Cove Bar in San Francisco formulated it with the distiller based off the type of rum Trader Vic would have been using when the drink was created. It was great. The rum has the Jamaican funk with a touch of the Agricore from Martinique. It was a completely different cocktail.

Living in San Diego, we have a lot of Mai Tai cocktails available. This is one of the 3 best. They are all different. This is a very good one.

DH's favorite cocktail is a Mai Tai, but I've yet to hit on the one that we will make from here on out. We did enjoy this one, but it still is not *quite* what we've enjoyed at bars previously. The quest continues...

Delicious. New favourite cocktail. Had to use Cointreau instead of Curaçao - will try the original at some point.

I tried with bacardi 8 year old rum. Well that's a delicious and easy rum cocktail to make

So I went for this tonight - to try to get closer to Trader Vic's recipe I used a mix of Myers Jamaican rum, and as I had nothing from Martinique I used Cruzan aged rum from St. Croix. I also made rock candy strength sugar syrup. It was quite delicious.
Here's a video of me making it, if you're interested: https://youtu.be/_9xirLN4t6Y

I am surprised ♥ ♥ ♥