The ‘Honey Deuce’—the legendary official cocktail of the US Open—is being liked by followers once more this 12 months.
Since 2006, attendees at New York’s Grand Slam occasion, held on the Billie Jean King Nationwide Tennis Heart, have quenched their thirst with the match’s signature boozy beverage—whose title is a playful nod to the fruit “honeydew” and the tennis rating “deuce.”
With extra nods to the game, the drink, made with Gray Goose vodka, lemonade, and raspberry liqueur, is garnished with three honeydew balls, scooped to resemble mini tennis balls.
“The mini honeydew melons that seem like tennis balls seize the attention and due to this fact, the creativeness,” Nick Mautone, the drink’s creator, advised Vogue in 2021. “It’s visually a enjoyable factor to drink at a tennis match.”
Etched with all of the U.S. Open males’s and ladies’s champions since 1968, the cup is a souvenir for followers to take dwelling.
“We come right here for this,” Trudy Potter, an attendee of the sport, stated of the cups final 12 months whereas talking to The New York Occasions.
Final 12 months alone, the match’s famed cocktail introduced in virtually $10 million, with 450,000 Deuces poured on the 2023 U.S. Open—which is greater than the mixed $7.2 million awarded to the winners of the lads’s and ladies’s tournaments.
The quantity is unsurprising, contemplating the cocktail got here in at a whopping $22 final 12 months, which has now elevated to $23. It’s the sixth value hike the drink has seen since 2012, in keeping with Morning Brew, when it price a relatively modest $14.
But when making it to Flushing Queens simply isn’t within the playing cards this 12 months and you continue to wish to sip one thing refreshing, you can also make the Honey Deuce at dwelling, because of Gray Goose.
Elements:
- 1 1/2 elements (1 ¼ oz) Gray Goose vodka
- 3 elements (3 oz) contemporary lemonade
- 1/2 half (½ oz) Chambord black raspberry liqueur
- 3 honeydew melon balls for garnish
Instructions:
- Chill a Collins glass or commemorative cup by putting it within the fridge, freezer, or filling it with ice water for five minutes.
- As soon as the glass is sufficiently chilled, fill it with ice.
- Measure and add vodka. Prime with a measured quantity of contemporary lemonade. Measure and add raspberry liqueur.
- Garnish with a skewer of 1 or a number of frozen honeydew melon balls.