@@adamlindsley1143totally referring to Luis Fernandez (I think). That dude is so into the whole “additives in tequila” and then goes on all sorts of all expenses paid trips by said tequila companies.
@nickkatherina I am 100% not referring to any individual. I’m merely pointing out the absurdity of the “non-additive” tequila mob that roams around the internet with their pitchforks. Especially when the people responsible for creating this movement (Tequila Collective) never shit on brands with additives.
@@stevenreed6034 Hamilton only sells one rum with Black in the name: Jamaica Pot Still Black. Derek refers to the rum in this video as being from Jamaica.
I love brown butter washed rum. The rum taste like chocolate chip cookie dough. And that butter you strained out? Put in back in the fridge and use it as a compound butter over a grilled steak. Thanks to the folks at Otto’s High Dive in Orlando for those recommendations- turned out wonderful.
Amazing! I’m posting a drink called ‘Breakfas-tiki’ in the next few weeks, can’t wait to try these and see the differences. Who knew the Breakfast Mai Tai is the drink of 2025?! 😆 Loving your work, by the way! Visually fantastic, great audio, engaging presentation and awesome drinks. Cheers!
Can we make this official??? The Breakfast Mai Tai is the drink of 2025. And thank you much! Was just about to comb through your archives to find an original cocktail that I could use Kahlua in. If you have a recommendation, maybe even one with rum, let me know.
Derek coming out swinging on the opinions in this one! The browned butter washed rum mai tai looks especially interesting to try out. Think you missed a golden opportunity to use LMGTFY. I got Easy Tiki for Christmas this year and have been paging through it. Fantastic book. It's Amazon reviews crack me up with the folks in there complaining about how some of the recipes aren't "easy" because of having to make or source some of the items or that 6 ingredients is "way too many". lol bro - tell me you don't tiki without telling me you don't tiki XD
Love it at 5:22. Great video (as always) - but really enjoyed that laugh at the 5:22 mark (I think that was my third laugh in this video - good stuff)!
I've made a few Breakfast Mai Tais since I first got Easy Tiki, and they're great! I've had the Banana Pancake Mai Tai on my TBD list ever since Adam posted it. I'm just lazy so dragging my feet on the brown buttered rum. That's why I don't do Pearl Divers anymore than I do. Well, that and the fact that the Gardenia Mix gets so hard in the fridge and ultimately gets wasted.
Dammit, I'm a sucker for a good banana cocktail! Fanny Chu makes some great drinks, too. She's got one called Rum To The Jungle that I've been wanting to make for a while now.
Breakfast Mai Tai: Rum. Check. Lime juice. Check. Orgeat. Check. Bit of a fruity liquor/liquor (Banana vs Orange Curacao). Check. Dash of an additional sweetener as needed (cinnamon in this case. Syrup/Demerara syrup in other recipes.) Check. Welcome to the Mai Tai family!!!!!
Belated Happy New Year Derek, these are right up (or down?) my alley! Since Hamilton remains tragically unavailable in Europe, which dark rum would you recommend as a substitute? I've got Plantation OD and OFTD, WP 109 and Gosling's Black Seal. Oh, and Koloa Dark. Cheers! 🥂
Hmh - nice. Two things on my shelve that haven't gotten enough love have been shown in the video: the easy tiki book and my brown butter rum. ❤ Let's dust em of. 🌬️
I'd be shocked if the coffee filter flavor could compete with the hogo in a Jamaican Rum. Got to admit I've done a few clarifications of infused liquors and never tasted the filter.
Agreed. Btw, the banana and cinnamon syrup combo reminds me of a Brazilian bakery sandwich of caramalized banana, cinnamon syrup, and mozzarella on French bread.
Derek has a couple videos about the original Hawaiian Mai Tai (the one that made it famous) and it didn't contain any agricole or Martinique rhum. It also didn't contain Pineapple Juice. #themoreyouknow
The original Mai Tai used a 17 year Wray and Nephew from Jamaica. It was so popular that they exhausted the supply. Trader Vic switched to W&N 15 year and then exhausted that supply too. Shortly after that was the first recipe calling for a Martinique Rum. But plenty of Rum historians have already uncovered that during the period, the island was producing much more a Grand Arome style Rum from molasses and cane syrup than the cane juice specified in the Agricole AOC (first specified in 1996). By many accounts this style of Rum was more in the style of a Demerara or Jamaican Rum than the Agricole style which Martinique has become famous for these days. That said, there are plenty of great Agricole rums that can be used in a Mai Tai blend that taste great. It's just not the flavor profile of the one and original 1944 Mai Tai that Vic served to his friend Carrie Guild.
Derek's throwing a circus tent's worth of shade in this one! 😂
Haha totally. Would love to know who he's referring to with the tequila dig.
@@adamlindsley1143 iykyk
Nobody? Everybody?
@@adamlindsley1143totally referring to Luis Fernandez (I think).
That dude is so into the whole “additives in tequila” and then goes on all sorts of all expenses paid trips by said tequila companies.
@nickkatherina I am 100% not referring to any individual. I’m merely pointing out the absurdity of the “non-additive” tequila mob that roams around the internet with their pitchforks. Especially when the people responsible for creating this movement (Tequila Collective) never shit on brands with additives.
Very helpful, can’t drink mai tais all day if you don’t start in the morning.
So true
😂 absolutely ture
There's the spirit!
Derek..
When you say Hamilton black, are you referring to the Jamaican pot still or the Demera 86?
@@stevenreed6034 Hamilton only sells one rum with Black in the name: Jamaica Pot Still Black. Derek refers to the rum in this video as being from Jamaica.
Easy Tiki is underrated. Great book.
I love brown butter washed rum. The rum taste like chocolate chip cookie dough. And that butter you strained out? Put in back in the fridge and use it as a compound butter over a grilled steak. Thanks to the folks at Otto’s High Dive in Orlando for those recommendations- turned out wonderful.
Amazing! I’m posting a drink called ‘Breakfas-tiki’ in the next few weeks, can’t wait to try these and see the differences. Who knew the Breakfast Mai Tai is the drink of 2025?! 😆
Loving your work, by the way! Visually fantastic, great audio, engaging presentation and awesome drinks. Cheers!
Can we make this official??? The Breakfast Mai Tai is the drink of 2025.
And thank you much! Was just about to comb through your archives to find an original cocktail that I could use Kahlua in. If you have a recommendation, maybe even one with rum, let me know.
Derek coming out swinging on the opinions in this one!
The browned butter washed rum mai tai looks especially interesting to try out. Think you missed a golden opportunity to use LMGTFY.
I got Easy Tiki for Christmas this year and have been paging through it. Fantastic book. It's Amazon reviews crack me up with the folks in there complaining about how some of the recipes aren't "easy" because of having to make or source some of the items or that 6 ingredients is "way too many". lol bro - tell me you don't tiki without telling me you don't tiki XD
Dry January is about to turn into Mai Tai riffs only January real quick
Whaaat? Breakfast Mai Tais? Love it. Those look awesome and I can’t wait to make them soon. Thank you!
Love these! Over the holidays I made a huge batch of browned-butter rum old fashioned, and it was a hit!
Love it at 5:22. Great video (as always) - but really enjoyed that laugh at the 5:22 mark (I think that was my third laugh in this video - good stuff)!
I've made a few Breakfast Mai Tais since I first got Easy Tiki, and they're great! I've had the Banana Pancake Mai Tai on my TBD list ever since Adam posted it. I'm just lazy so dragging my feet on the brown buttered rum. That's why I don't do Pearl Divers anymore than I do. Well, that and the fact that the Gardenia Mix gets so hard in the fridge and ultimately gets wasted.
The humor in is this is all time
As part of a home tiki bar tour, the host of the first house we visited in the morning made Mai Tai mimosas as one of their drink offerings.
These sound amazing, thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the riffs!
In addition to all the hilarious snark I’m laughing at sharing a breakfast Mai tai when peers are going with mocktails this month!
Dammit, I'm a sucker for a good banana cocktail!
Fanny Chu makes some great drinks, too. She's got one called Rum To The Jungle that I've been wanting to make for a while now.
Oh love brown butter rum, great also for hot buttered rum I used it in , Pearl diver, or rum old fashion to name a few!! These sound fun!
Nice to see Easy Tiki getting some love here. I feel like it often gets overlooked because of its name.
Straining the brown butter washed Appleton as we speak! Let's get this Saturday morning going!
Snarky Derek = funniest Derek
Just drinking the braekfast MI Tai, 6pm here in the UK. Had to sub out Skipper for the Hamilton obs. Delish. Cheers
Breakfast Mai Tai:
Rum. Check. Lime juice. Check. Orgeat. Check. Bit of a fruity liquor/liquor (Banana vs Orange Curacao). Check. Dash of an additional sweetener as needed (cinnamon in this case. Syrup/Demerara syrup in other recipes.) Check. Welcome to the Mai Tai family!!!!!
Belated Happy New Year Derek, these are right up (or down?) my alley! Since Hamilton remains tragically unavailable in Europe, which dark rum would you recommend as a substitute? I've got Plantation OD and OFTD, WP 109 and Gosling's Black Seal. Oh, and Koloa Dark. Cheers! 🥂
I’d prioritize the Jamaican aspect over the dark rum part since it’s not really aged much. 109 would work well.
@@makeanddrink Thank you 🥂
Oooh, I have some Cassia Cinnamon sticks. Get that goood Tiki incense going
Superb ending 😎
Damn. Derek feeling spicy in this video.
Props to anyone who has gone down a Dave Arnold rabbit hole at some point!
Loved the sass haha
5:23 😆👏👏👏
I’ve been trying to do an Italian Mai Tai going for that almond cookie profile but can’t get it to work quite yet
Sassy Derek this weekend
Damn, you're throwing some significant shade at IG 'influencers' - love the shade
Hmh - nice. Two things on my shelve that haven't gotten enough love have been shown in the video: the easy tiki book and my brown butter rum. ❤ Let's dust em of. 🌬️
How much can last buttered rum in the fridge?
That’s awesome!
Someone needs to come up with song for this. i drink 2 in the morning, i drink 2 at night...
Next up, the Bloody Mary Mai Tai for lunch!
This is the Hario coffee nerd in me, but rinse the filter with water first to ensure that no paper flavor is imparted on the product.
I'd be shocked if the coffee filter flavor could compete with the hogo in a Jamaican Rum. Got to admit I've done a few clarifications of infused liquors and never tasted the filter.
I did. But also don’t think it matters at all in an application like this.
Agreed. Btw, the banana and cinnamon syrup combo reminds me of a Brazilian bakery sandwich of caramalized banana, cinnamon syrup, and mozzarella on French bread.
Does the amount of browned butter to rum ratio matter? 1 part butter to 2 parts rum?? Thanks for everything you cover on this great channel
@j.efflaufer it matters but unsure how much. In this case, I was just following a recipe.
Something’s wrong in the recipe in the info. 1/2 ounce isn’t 7.5 ml, it’s 15 ml. (Several places in both recipes). :)
5:50 that sounded like a shot at somebody, but I don't know who.
It really wasn’t. Just a comment on the fickle nature of the non-additive police.
Yes, that Breakfast Mai Tai is great and easily put together. The Pancake isn't really a Mai Tai without orgeat but also sounds amazing.
Vic's Mai Tai that made the drink famous used an agricole, you Savage. 😜
Not until the 1990s. Nice try.
Derek has a couple videos about the original Hawaiian Mai Tai (the one that made it famous) and it didn't contain any agricole or Martinique rhum. It also didn't contain Pineapple Juice. #themoreyouknow
The original Mai Tai used a 17 year Wray and Nephew from Jamaica. It was so popular that they exhausted the supply. Trader Vic switched to W&N 15 year and then exhausted that supply too. Shortly after that was the first recipe calling for a Martinique Rum. But plenty of Rum historians have already uncovered that during the period, the island was producing much more a Grand Arome style Rum from molasses and cane syrup than the cane juice specified in the Agricole AOC (first specified in 1996). By many accounts this style of Rum was more in the style of a Demerara or Jamaican Rum than the Agricole style which Martinique has become famous for these days.
That said, there are plenty of great Agricole rums that can be used in a Mai Tai blend that taste great. It's just not the flavor profile of the one and original 1944 Mai Tai that Vic served to his friend Carrie Guild.
Eric, are you really trying to educate Kevin and Derek on Mai Tai history?
@@robmichaels4728 nope - replying to the original post
Nope! Can’t stand banana.