Drinks · Indian
100% vegan
Drinks · American
Mai Tai
★★★★★★★★★★ No reviews yetThe tiki classic: aged rum, fresh lime, orange curaçao and almond orgeat, shaken and served over crushed ice with a mint sprig. Vegan when made with a dairy-free orgeat.
Prep5 min
Cook—
Total5 min
Serves1
LevelEasy
Method
- Add the rums, lime juice, curaçao, orgeat and sugar syrup to a shaker with cubed ice.
- Shake hard for 10–12 seconds.
- Strain into a double old-fashioned glass filled with crushed ice.
- Garnish with a generous mint sprig and the squeezed lime half.
Tips, storage & swaps
Orgeat: make your own with our homemade almond orgeat syrup recipe (in the drinks section), or use a shop-bought one checked for honey or animal-derived colourings.
Rum choice: the classic profile combines a funky Jamaican rum with a grassy agricole or a rich aged rum. Most rums contain no animal products; flavoured and spiced rums occasionally contain honey, so check.
Allergy note: orgeat contains almonds.
Bartender’s note on vegan spirits: most distilled spirits contain no animal products. Problems are more likely with cream liqueurs (dairy), honey liqueurs, some red bitters and aperitifs that were historically coloured with carmine (E120), and wines, beers and fortified wines fined with isinglass, gelatin, casein or egg white. Check labels and producers’ statements; see our guides to isinglass and wine fining on itsvegan.org/is-it-vegan.
Every recipe on itsvegan is 100% plant-based: no meat, fish, dairy, eggs, honey or gelatin. Always check packaged ingredients such as chocolate, bread and wine for hidden animal products.
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Recipe from itsvegan.org — https://itsvegan.org/recipe/vegan-mai-tai