How to Make US Open Drink, Whats in It?

Love-Love to sip! The US Open’s Honey Deuce recipe is super quick and easy to make. Synonymous with the Grand Slam, this refreshing drink will make you enjoy any tennis game with ease.

The US Open—which is held at the Billie Jean King Tennis Center Flushing Meadow, Queens, New York and runs for two weeks between late August and early September—is one of the four major annual professional tennis tournaments that make up the Grand Slam. The other three Grand Slam tournaments are the Australian Open in January; the French Open from late May to Early June; and Wimbledon from late June to early July. The tournament attracts thousands upon thousands of visitors every year, and the coveted Honey Deuce is a drink to claim with one selling nearly every 3.8 seconds. You can definitely spot celebrities drinking the cocktail too like like Paul Wesley, Diplo, David Harbour, and Emily Ratajkowski.

The drink’s name is a nod to the most competitive score in tennis, a deuce or 40-40. Combined with tartness and a tang, the drink is the perfect cocktail to sip courtside. The drink is currently priced at $22. Who needs a Kentucky Derby Mint Julep or a Wimbledon Primm’s Cup when you have lemons, melons, raspberry, and vodka? If you’re heading over to the games, you must try to score one in a commemorative plastic cup with all the player’s names in it.

Can’t make it over to Queens? Here’s a Honey Deuce recipe that you make in your own kitchen and even when tennis season is over.

• History of The US Open's Honey Deuce

  

  In 2006, US Open sponsor Grey Goose Vodka asked Gramercy Tavern restauranteur Nick Mautone to create a signature drink for the game. At first it was a bit of a struggle, but after being inspired by little melon balls that look like tennis balls, Mautone perfected the iconic drink.

  “I’m going to freely admit the mini honeydew melons that look like tennis balls capture the eye and therefore, the imagination. It’s visually a fun thing to drink at a tennis match,” he told Vogue.

  Mautone also recalled that he encountered people drinking the Honey Deuce outside of the US Open. “She had no idea I invented it,” Mautone says about a woman who threw a tennis-themed party he attended. “And that happens every year—every time the U.S. Open comes around, I just keep hearing about the drink.”

  The trifecta of the liquids used in the Honey Deuce is a pleasurable drink you can enjoy at any time of the day AND year. “You get the fruit from the raspberry liqueur. You get the tartness from the lemonade and you get the clean flavors of the Grey Goose. It’s balanced, is what it really comes down to,” he says. “It goes extremely well with whatever food you’re having on a hot day.”

• How To Make The Honey Deuce Cocktail

  

  Ingredients:
  1 ¼ oz Vodka (US Open uses Grey Goose)
  3 oz Fresh Lemonade
  ½ oz Chambord or Raspberry Liqueur
  3 Honeydew Melon Balls

  Instructions:

• Fill a chilled highball glass with cubed ice and add Vodka.
• Top with fresh lemonade and raspberry liqueur.
• Garnish with a skewer of 1 or multiple frozen honeydew melon balls.

It’s that quick and simple, enjoy the Honey Deuce from the comfort of your own home!

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