{"id":790,"date":"2008-08-06T16:25:24","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T16:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cocktailians.com\/2008\/08\/mai-tai.html"},"modified":"2008-08-06T16:25:24","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T16:25:24","slug":"mai-tai-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/?p=790","title":{"rendered":"(Mai) Tai One On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><style type=\"text\/css\">.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }<\/style>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"flickr-frame\">\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/vidiot\/2738630876\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2284\/2738630876_9b11690779.jpg\" class=\"flickr-photo\" \/><\/a><br \/>\t<span class=\"flickr-caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/vidiot\/2738630876\/\">Mai Tai<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/vidiot\/\">Vidiot<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"flickr-yourcomment\">\tI&#8217;ve got <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorkology.com\/archives\/2008\/08\/high_in_the_sky_4.php\">a review<\/a> of hotel rooftop bar <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theroosevelthotel.com\/Dining\/Mad46\/\">mad46<\/a> up on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorkology.com\/\">NewYorkology<\/a>.&nbsp; &nbsp; (The above photo is of the &quot;very fine Mai Tai&quot; referenced in that story.)<\/p>\n<p>And, to my great good fortune, Rhum Cl\u00e9ment was sponsoring &quot;Tiki Tuesday&quot; there, as they will every Tuesday in August, and showcasing its very good agricole rums and the excellent Creole Shrubb orange liqueur.&nbsp; I also got to meet 4th-generation Cl\u00e9ment scion (and Managing Director of Cl\u00e9ment USA) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talesofthecocktail.com\/2008\/view_person.php?person=87\">Ben Jones<\/a>.&nbsp; (He was easy to spot, as he was the only person there with an &quot;I \u2665 SHRUBB&quot; button on his shirt.)&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I only fairly recently picked up a bottle of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashfood.com\/2006\/12\/16\/liqueur-notes-rhum-clement-creole-shrubb-curacao-orange-liqueur\/\">Creole Shrubb<\/a>, and I enjoy it very much &#8212; it&#8217;s lusher than most triple secs, with a warm rich vanilla-spice note undergirding the orange.&nbsp; I like to sip it neat or on the rocks, but I&#8217;ve also been enjoying it in Sidecars and other cocktails where I&#8217;d normally use Cointreau.&nbsp; I think my next purchase is going to have to be a bottle of their aged VSOP rum; I don&#8217;t know much about rum, but it&#8217;ll be fun to learn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mai Tai, originally uploaded by Vidiot. I&#8217;ve got a review of hotel rooftop bar mad46 up on NewYorkology.&nbsp; &nbsp; (The above photo is of the &quot;very fine Mai Tai&quot; referenced in that story.) And, to my great good fortune, Rhum Cl\u00e9ment was sponsoring &quot;Tiki Tuesday&quot; there, as they will every Tuesday in August, and showcasing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drinking-establishments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}