Is the BEST Rum Barrel from the Mai Kai?

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The most well-known and most consumed rum barrel is the Barrel O' Rum from the Mai Kai. This drink was on the menu when the Mai Kai opened in 1956 and has remained its most iconic drink over the last 68 years. Mariano Licudine created the Barrel O' Rum with obvious inspiration from Don the Beachcomber. It's everything a great rum barrel should be and it's a drink you have to make if you have not already.

While this recipe is different from the version found in Beachbum's Taboo Table, The Atomic Grog has gone to great lengths to recreate the secret recipe from the Mai Kai. It's hard to imagine an alternate version being any better than this one.

If you want to know more about the Barrel O'Rum, the rum blend, and its ancestor recipes, check out the @atomicgrog posts to show this barrel some respect! https://www.slammie.com/atomicgrog/bl...

Recipes at the bottom of this description

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📃 Episode Chapters 📃
00:00 Introduction to the Barrel O' Rum
00:48 Barrel O' Substitutes
01:56 The Ingredients
02:11 All Spice Dram or Don's Spices #2
02:28 Orange Juice
02:59 Grapefruit Juice
03:15 Lime(s) juice
03:57 Honey Mix
04:09 Passion Fruit
04:32 Light Rum
04:51 DARK JAMAICAN RUM
06:42 Making the Barrel O' Rum from the Mai Kai
08:06 Barrel O' Rum Recipe Card
08:17 Drinking the Barrel O'Rum

📖 Recipe 📖
Barrel O' Rum
3 dashes Angostura bitters
½ tsp allspice dram
1 ½ oz orange juice
1 ½ oz grapefruit juice
1 oz lime juice mix (2 parts Persian to 1 part key lime)
½ oz rich honey mix (I used a 50 Brix honey syrup)
1 oz passion fruit syrup
2 oz white Puerto Rican or Virgin Islands rum
2 oz Mai-Kai dark Jamaican rum blend (see below)
¾ oz club soda

Dark Jamaican Rum Blend
1 part Wray & Nephew White Overproof
1 part Appleton Signature
4 parts Coruba

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