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Crafthouse Cocktails
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Crafthouse Cocktails is a Chicago-based brand founded by Charles Joy and Matt Lindner in 2013. Its ready-to-drink Mai Tai is made with Planteray rum, orange curacao, lime and almond orgeat and is canned at 16% ABV. The cocktail found its way onto our radar after winning Best Rum-Based RTD at the 2025 San Francisco World Spirits Competition (at which Crafthouse also won Best Vodka Soda and Best Vodka-Based).
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Plenty of lime, alcohol heat and a syrupy kick of orange from the curacao.
Wow! It's immediately clear that this was made with a Caribbean rum. The Planteray adds a funky, tropical edge that punches far above its weight class, combining with tasty hits of orange, lime and perfectly unsaccharin orgeat. Hard to believe this has been sitting in a can for however many weeks or months since it was batched.
The rum influence builds on the finish, adding flashes of bitter grapefruit, molasses and pineapple.
Hands down the best rum ready-to-drink cocktail we've ever tried. Or, at the very least, the best that rum has ever tasted inside a ready-to-drink cocktail. This is the rare canned drink that fires on all cylinders, and a gold standard for everything else to come. Can't sing its praises enough.
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Disclosure: The producer provided this sample to review free of charge, and without expectation of review or rating.
