Credit: Allie Chanthorn Reinmann
If there’s something that a bougie American tennis audience likes, it’s a gaudy themed mixed drink. The U.S. Open has an “main beverage,” and it’s not Gatorade– it’s the Honey Deuce. If you can’t make it over to see a match, or you just wish to conserve needing to speak the uncomfortable name in public, you can quickly make this mixed drink in your home.
For a bit of background, the U.S. Open is among the 4 Grand Slam tennis competitions and it happens in Queens, NY. 10s of countless fans head over to see the matches, and costing The Open, for $23 each, is this fruity mixed drink. It’s anticipated to generate about $10 million throughout the almost 2 week-long tennis occasion.
The “main” beverage is made with Grey Goose vodka, lemonade, and raspberry liqueur. In order to effectively make it a play on words, you should include honey dew melon masquerading as tennis balls as a garnish. Otherwise, it’s simply a raspberry-tinged, spiked lemonade, and just tennis-haters consume that. (As you can see, I do not have a melon baller however I did utilize honeydew melon pieces, so you can choose how I feel about tennis.)
How to make the Honey Deuce (or phony it)
The dish and approach are dead simple. Grey Goose does not even ask that you make the lemonade yourself, it simply shows that it ought to be “fresh.” I think that a newly opened bottle of Simply Lemonade will work if you do not have lemons and sugar around.
To the very same point, you can make this mixed drink with the precise components noted on Grey Goose’s site, or do what I did– deal with what you can get. The greatest concern I had with this dish was discovering raspberry liqueur. Strangely, raspberry is not popular in the little alcohol shops near me, however cherry is, so that’s what I chose. If you can’t discover raspberry liqueur, however you should have the Honey Deuce taste experience, you can either make your own and have it in 2 weeks, or you can warm raspberry jam with a little bit of water in a pot, then put the hot liquid through a screen and utilize that.
There is really little not to like about a fruity lemonade, particularly in summer season. I took pleasure in every sip of my cherry “honey deuce” (the melon treat is a big benefit). It’s intense, not strongly alcoholic tasting, and not too sweet. When the day comes that I encounter a bottle of raspberry liqueur, I’ll proceed and attempt it once again. If absolutely nothing else, this mixed drink is an excellent reason to purchase the last of summertime’s honeydew before late September blends it away.
Honey Deuce(ish) Recipe
Active ingredients:
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3 ounces lemonade
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1 1/4 ounce vodka
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1/2 ounce raspberry (or cherry) liqueur