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Welcome to the Art of the Drink video podcast. My name is Anthony Caporale and we are coming in live tonight from the 2006 world beer festival in North Carolina. And so tonight by request, we are going to make a mai tai, so first thing that I want you to do, nice big glass for mai tai, lots of liquors, lots of mix is in the mai tai so you will need a big glass to hold it all. I am going to fill this glass all the way with ice, I will be right back. Okay, folks who are making drinks at home, who makes drinks at home a lot? How many ice cubes you put in? Three, three that is normaly what I get. I want to fill your glass all the way with ice. Every person with vodka is going to fill their glass all the way with ice. Couple of reasons why, one, make sure the drink is served with the right temperature, if you do not put enough ice, all it happens is the ice melts before you are able to drink, liquifies what is now the drink and you are not with the warm water down drink. But if you put enough ice, it will absorb all that heat, the ice stays solid, the drink will not get liquify, it gets nice in cold, also make sure that the amount of liquor versus mixer is proper.
If I will have a proper ice cubes in here that I put in my liquor, I will have a way too much mixer, and all the recipes that you will learn from [Muffled] based on filling the glass completely with ice so let us make sure we do that. Full that with ice now, in my side three liquors, one ounce of light rum followed by one ounce of golden rum, dark rum also works.
And now the ingredient that makes it the mai tai and separates it from other rum and fruit drink, this is [Muffled] but in order to make it in mai tai, you have to have an almond flavor in there, so I am going to put a half ounce of Brenda almond. Now, a lot of you folks who subscribe to my podcast, you know I like to use fresh juices wherever I can, so I am going to put a squeeze of fresh lime and then drop the lime right in there. I also want some orange juice, and I am doing here is the juice of one fresh orange, I will show you how to juice some orange, nice and easy, do this at home.
Cut the orange in halves, step one, step two, put the halves facing each other, hold that over the drink and squeeze, and you can see all the juices is going to run straight down into glass, nobody gets hurt, nobody gets wet. When you got it all at that way, you try to 45 degrees and squeeze it again, more juice comes it out, what is also coming out is pulp, so I am going to rub that pulp and that is going to get me even more juice and I am just going to keep squeezing and turning until all the juice comes out of that orange.
Now, I am going to top this drink up with pineapple juice, almost all the way to the top but I say almost all the way to the top because I have one more step. No bartenders are going to serve you drink that is not mixed properly, no big bartender and you certainly not to order a drink, so we are going to take this drink and I am going to put it on my mixing tin and I am going to shake this drink.
You all know what I want to do here is mix six ingredients to show them down in areas that are real good so looks like I put into blender but I did not put in into blender. Once it is nice and frothy I will pour it back into my service glass and I am going to top it with a straw and another wedge of fresh lime. And we have a mai tai.
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And that folks is our mohito, take two and that folks is our mai-tai.
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