VIDEORECIPE Homemade Mai Tai cocktail recipe

Although it may not seem like it, you can get more nutrients and defence from orange juice, just by adding a carrot. Here's how to make this delicious and nourishing wonder.

Midori, Japanese for green, is a melon-flavoured liqueur that lives up to its meaning and can be enjoyed in a wide variety of cocktails, long drinks and short drinks. Because it is extremely sweet, it's mixed with sour flavours to offset its sweetness.

Who doesn't crave a fresh mimosa in summer? Although there are several recipes, the classic one with orange juice, champagne and a strawberry is ideal for a brunch with friends or to drink at any time. Don't be left with the desire and try it, they will b

This recipe is the real deal, tracing back to Victor “Trader Vic” Bergeron Jr. in the 1930s. It comes to us via Martin Cate, owner of Smuggler’s Cove in San Francisco. (Who based it on the recipe found in Jeff Berry’s book Beachbum Berry’s Sippin’ Safari.) What to buy: Orgeat is an almond-sugar syrup traditionally made from whole blanched almonds.

Spritz dates back to the 1800s, but Aperol was not created until 1919. It gained popularity in the 1920s and 1930s and soon became the bitter liqueur's most popular. It's a refreshing, sweet and sour summer drink, full of palate-pleasing sensations.

Pegu Club bartender Kenta Goto’s lovely cocktail La Fleur de Paradis spends its evenings perched atop a weathered zinc bar, sipped by the beautiful people of New York. Our rendition of it using wheat beer instead of champagne is more at home in a plastic cup, enjoyed by folks sporting cut-off shorts and soaking in the sun on a picnic blanket or the open gate of a pickup truck.

Martin Cate of Smuggler’s Cove in San Francisco uses a Collins glass for this tropical classic, and garnishes it with a sprig of mint and a wheel of lime. Like the many maligned Mai Tai recipes floating about in the cocktail ether, the originator of this tiki classic has been muddied, with accounts naming Don the Beachcomber and others fingering his rival, Victor “Trader Vic” Bergeron. Either way, Vic’s version is the one that lingers as the canonical formula.