Trader Vic Mai Tai Cocktail

Ingredients

• 1 cup crushed ice
• 1 lime, juiced
• 2 fluid ounces 17-year old J. Wray Nephew Jamaican Rum
• 0.5 fluid ounce French Garnier Orgeat
• 0.5 fluid ounce orange Curacao liqueur
• 0.25 fluid ounce rock candy syrup
• 1 cup ice
• 1 sprig fresh mint

Steps

1. Fill a rocks glass with 1 cup crushed ice. Freeze the glass.
2. Cut a strip of zest from lime with a peeler; set aside. Halve lime; juice both halves into a cocktail shaker.
3. Add rum, Orgeat, Curaçao, and rock candy syrup to the cocktail shaker; add 1 cup ice cubes. Cover and shake until the outside of the shaker has frosted.
4. Place reserved lime zest into the chilled rocks glass; strain in mai tai mixture. Float mint sprig on edge of the glass.