January 21, 2024 at 07:16PM

Cocktail Hour: Clarified Mai Tai

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Doing the milk clarification thing is always fun.

If you are not familiar with the concept, the gist is you make a cocktail in bulk (I made 10 servings) and then you add milk. The milk curdles. Then you filter it and the milk curds act like a super filter and you get a clear liquid.

Which is fun.

 

You start with a cloudy liquid and you end with a clear liquid.

 

My basic go-to Mai Tai recipe is:

 

2 oz. Rum (Wray & Nephew, Probitas, and 2-3 other bottles all blended)

0.50 oz. Orange Curacao (Clement Creole Shrub (¡XOXO!))

0.75 oz. Lime Juice

0.50 oz. Orgeat

(I also added some spices: cinnamon, nutmeg, all-spice, etc for wintery fun)

 

 

GET CONTAINERS!

Once you have a container with a large amount of cocktail in it, take a second container and put some milk in it. The ratio I use is 4:1 cocktail to milk.

Pour the cocktail into the container with the milk it.

 

Let it sit overnight. I let this one sit for 24 hours which I’m not sure helped or hindered.

 

I then use a my standard wire colander with a paper towel on it as a filter. The paper towel will quickly catch all the curds and those curds will act like a crazy filter.

 

After some time (a few hours usually) you’ll have a fairly clear cocktail that tastes about the same (maybe with a bit more roundness) as the non-clear cocktail AND is shelf-stable for YEARS. That’s what the experts say.

YEARS!

 

We did our clarified Mai Tai with ice and then up.

Both ways were lovely.

 

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