The Mai Tai from Waikiki

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  • Опубліковано 25 лип 2024
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    It's the "world famous" Duke's Mai Tai from Duke's locations across Hawaii and can be found at several restaurants in California. The main difference in this Hawaiian Mai Tai is the juice. Instead of lime or pineapple, we're using POG which is passion, orange, and guava. It's a sweet one that will need a little help from some lime juice. While not my favorite, as far as the heavy fruit juice Mai Tai's go it's not my least favorite and I'd happily order one at any Duke's location.
    If you want to learn a little more about *Duke Kahanamoku*, check out this quick PBS video: • The legacy of Native H...
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    📃 Episode Chapters 📃
    00:00 Introduction
    00:11 Duke Kahanamoku
    01:14 Make your own POG - kind of
    02:14 POG the Game
    02:46 Making Duke's Mai Tai
    03:38 Duke's Mai Tai Recipe Card
    05:28 Acid Adjusting: The Old Way
    📖 Recipe(s) 📖
    ½ oz orgeat
    ½ oz orange curacao
    3 oz POG Juice
    ½ oz of gold rum
    1 ¼ of dark rum
    #MaiTai #DukesMaiTai #cocktails

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  • @wheremagicbeginsnow
    @wheremagicbeginsnow 11 місяців тому +8

    As someone that actually lived on the Oahu, the bars on Waikiki, including Dukes and Halekulani, were way out of our price range. Even the bars downtown like Skull and Crown are seriously expensive. That’s why I’m glad you’re showing us the drinks so we can test at home. Thank you for the Mai Tai series it’s a good idea to use for other cocktails too.

  • @TheBadgererer
    @TheBadgererer 11 місяців тому +19

    "Close enough for me, and who the f### cares?" is my bartending motto!

  • @ReformedPiper
    @ReformedPiper 15 днів тому +1

    I am right there with you! I have a tube of POGs tucked away in storage. Another great video!

  • @karolsarosiek9467
    @karolsarosiek9467 11 місяців тому +4

    POGs?! Heck yes, childhood memories! Used to play "slam" pogs during our breaks in primary school. Don't get me started on the glitter pogs. Never knew the history of pogs. Thanks for that... I still do own my pogs, so cheers 🎉😂❤

    • @N1120A
      @N1120A 11 місяців тому

      Ha! I bet I know how old you are and it's within 5 years of me.

  • @ultimatemaitai
    @ultimatemaitai 11 місяців тому +9

    We love visiting the Duke's locations, especially the one in Kauai where they have really cool stream running through the middle of the restaurant. Using the lime wedge is a great tip.

    • @makeanddrink
      @makeanddrink  11 місяців тому +2

      I’ll have one Mai Tai and double the garnish, please and thank you.

  • @adrianwahl5107
    @adrianwahl5107 11 місяців тому +3

    I really love that Mai Tai series

  • @ivanelieff6816
    @ivanelieff6816 10 днів тому

    Fun, and validates my conclusions…Was at Dukes Waikiki in 2018 and again in 2019, and a pandemic project of mine was to reverse engineer their mai tai. Even found the glassware online, having decided it was better than the plastic one i got at the gift shop. I guess I enjoyed them so much precisely because the first thing I did after sampling a sip of the dark rum floater was squeeze and drop in the lime and stir it all up. My version increased the rum portions, and I replaced some ice cubes with frozen pineapple pieces. If I’m lazy and haven’t made orgeat, I just substitute Disaronno amaretto. The ordinary rums I’ve landed on are Havana Club 3 y.o., Bacardi amber spice, and The Kraken as floater. I also started adding a fresh mint sprig, since I have a healthy supply in the garden.

  • @davyjones99
    @davyjones99 11 місяців тому +3

    I miss my POGs. I used that acronym as a trivia question and don't believe anyone got it! Keep up the awesome work. Loving the channel!

  • @pantsrally
    @pantsrally 11 місяців тому +1

    Thank you for all the background info, history and tips. Really enjoying your videos!

  • @logicalparadox2897
    @logicalparadox2897 2 місяці тому +1

    Kudos on adding the lime! I was staring at that line while all that talk of lacking acid was going on andI was about to write a comment about it and then you squeezed it in and I was like "that's my man"!
    Now I really wanna see the Hamilton 86 version to see if this template can be improved. I'm curious enough that I kind of want to try it, but I don't want to risk falling down the rabbit hole. I can't help but think to myself that if this was Greg from How to Drink, I KNOW he woulda pulled out that Hamilton 86 bottle and made a second one... and then he probably would have tried three or four others before starting to slur his speech 😂 But that sacrifice is for our sake so that we don't have to take the hit in the quest to know

  • @brandonschwindt7547
    @brandonschwindt7547 10 місяців тому +1

    Great video! Thanks!!

  • @russb24
    @russb24 4 місяці тому +1

    Passion fruit juice will be way more acidic tasting than syrup. You might find passion fruit pulp by Goya in the freezer section. To make juice, thaw and blend with 2-3 parts water for one pulp, strain and optionally lightly sweeten if you want to drink the juice straight.

    • @makeanddrink
      @makeanddrink  4 місяці тому

      Depends on how you’re making syrup. I use a concentrate so that much more acidic than a juice and even when cutting it with sugar or a syrup it ends up sweeter than a juice oz for oz but more acidic.

  • @TheEdgeman64
    @TheEdgeman64 9 місяців тому +1

    It's been several years since I last enjoyed a Mai Tai on the front deck of Dukes Waikiki... That's it, I'm checking flights now!

  • @tmunzing
    @tmunzing 11 місяців тому +2

    Up next: airline mai tais. With extra aloha!

  • @0xSLN
    @0xSLN 9 місяців тому +1

    Proud pog collector!

  • @robmichaels4728
    @robmichaels4728 11 місяців тому +1

    Love the glass. You are showing the angry tiki man side- what’s got you upset? 😮. Another great video, acid adjustment sounds interesting (if you can get the acid levels of the guava juice), then have fun with the rums.

  • @feigbuneogmlwefger9402
    @feigbuneogmlwefger9402 11 місяців тому +1

    Had one of these at Sunnyside and it was absolutely terrible!! Would be really interested to know how they make it there. Was a disappointment bc we love Sunnyside, it’s a cool stopover in west Lake Tahoe

  • @PatrickJaszewski
    @PatrickJaszewski 11 місяців тому +1

    I happen to have a bottle of POG juice since we saw it at Costco the other day, so I'll be making this tonight with the Hamilton 86 and acid adjusting. The POG juice is tasty, but it was too sweet for me, so using some up in this Duke's Mai Tai looks like the perfect use for it. Cheers on another great video!

    • @PatrickJaszewski
      @PatrickJaszewski 11 місяців тому

      Well acid adjusting definitely helped, but like Derek suspected, Hamilton 86 was not great as a floater on this one. It wasn't cohesive with the POG juice and a different dark rum would have been better. Maybe a Pot Still Black, Goslings, Coruba, Meyers would be better

    • @PatrickJaszewski
      @PatrickJaszewski 11 місяців тому

      I took another run at it and Plantation OFTD is a treat on this as the floater

  • @nathansinger1171
    @nathansinger1171 11 місяців тому +1

    "... In a closet or a box somewhere at your parents house."
    This one hit too close to home. Completely true though!

  • @als.2983
    @als.2983 11 місяців тому +1

    Never had one at Duke's, but it sounds similar to the world famous Mai Tai's at Tahiti Nui (Kauai): juices - POG + pineapple.

  • @AK_Wargamer
    @AK_Wargamer 11 місяців тому +1

    now thats a pog tai!

  • @kncle
    @kncle 11 місяців тому

    I love how the glass makes the float look like a brain. I get Indian jones vibes

  • @hakupaku42
    @hakupaku42 11 місяців тому +1

    Acid-adjusted POG juice for a POG Tai 👀

  • @jack__attack
    @jack__attack 11 місяців тому +2

    Not that it makes a huge difference sweetness-wise but the recipe I found (and made by a Duke's Bartender in the video) uses .4 ounces of Orgeat and uses PPOG juice, so pineapple, passion-fruit, orange, guava.

  • @ScoundrelGaming
    @ScoundrelGaming 11 місяців тому +2

    Dukes Mai Tai started me on my cocktail/tiki journey. It's not a great drink but still delicious and I have no shame drinking them to this day
    Also, what the song at the end?

    • @makeanddrink
      @makeanddrink  11 місяців тому +2

      I cast no shame on anyone who enjoys a Dukes Mai Tai or any of the Pineapple juice Mai Tais.
      As for the song? A mystery for now but that's coming up soon.

  • @MixingUpTiki
    @MixingUpTiki 11 місяців тому

    Me! Me! I have one of those sleeves of POGs hidden away somewhere.

    • @makeanddrink
      @makeanddrink  11 місяців тому +1

      I challenge you!
      Is that how we do it? I can’t remember.

    • @MixingUpTiki
      @MixingUpTiki 11 місяців тому

      @@makeanddrink haha I don’t either. Pretty sure that means we’re old lol

    • @tmunzing
      @tmunzing 11 місяців тому +1

      @@MixingUpTiki "Tube hidden away in the closet" was on point

  • @MisadelphiaSAR
    @MisadelphiaSAR 6 місяців тому

    What do you think of that Bols orange curaçao?

    • @makeanddrink
      @makeanddrink  6 місяців тому +1

      It's ok. Nothing great but not offensive

  • @BryceThomassub
    @BryceThomassub 11 місяців тому +1

    How would you acid adjust the POG juice?

    • @makeanddrink
      @makeanddrink  11 місяців тому

      I’d treat it like it’s 1% acid, if you’re using the acid adjuster I came up with i’d use 5 ml. If you’re acid adjusting a batch of juice you’d need to do some math because you use 3 oz of juice instead of 1 oz. I’m thinking that would be 16 ish grams of acid per 100 ml of juice.

  • @EastBayJ
    @EastBayJ 11 місяців тому +1

    Years ago my friend got mistaken for Tom Cruise by a table of Japanese tourists at Waikiki Dukes and he’s been riding that high ever since. He looks nothing like Tom Cruise.

  • @N1120A
    @N1120A 11 місяців тому +1

    Duke's Malibu and Duke's Waikiki will always be the two best of the chain. Also, the mai tai's I've had at Duke's Waikiki have tended to taste more boozy than this sounds.

  • @IverJ
    @IverJ 11 місяців тому +1

    Don't you wish ALL LIMES were like that? Cheers

  • @scanders85
    @scanders85 3 місяці тому

    Spend the money, buy the POG

  • @EggwardEgghands
    @EggwardEgghands 11 місяців тому +1

    Sigh. Why is my job not about drinking Mai Tais every day?

  • @jessef.81
    @jessef.81 2 місяці тому

    Just watch your glass. As a bartender, you should know that romanticized images of Polynesian cultures are unacceptable. You’re mocking the same people you’re trying to honor

    • @makeanddrink
      @makeanddrink  2 місяці тому

      I’m Hawaiian.

    • @makeanddrink
      @makeanddrink  2 місяці тому

      sorry, but you don't get to decide what's offensive and not offensive.