Tip Top Proper Cocktails Mai Tai

Tip Top Proper Cocktails is an Atlanta company founded in 2018 by childhood friends Neal Cohen and Yoni Reisman, with recipes from Miles Macquarrie, a seven-time James Beard nominee at Kimball House. The cans are filled in North Charleston, South Carolina, in steel because the high proof would corrode aluminum.

The Mai Tai, launched in spring 2024, combines rum, lime, curaçao and orgeat. The rum is a blend of silver, Jamaican pot-still and barrel-aged rums. Each still 100ml can is 26% alcohol (52 proof) and OK Kosher, and we sell singles and 4-packs.

Expect fresh sugar cane, mandarin, marzipan and toasted almond: a big hit of citrus with a toasty, tropical finish.

Against Tip Top Margarita, the Mai Tai is the rum-and-almond tropical choice at the same strength; for a tiki-style drink, choose the Mai Tai.

Serve it chilled, straight from the can or over ice. For a proper tiki serve, pour it over crushed ice in a rocks glass and garnish with a mint sprig and a lime wheel.

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