Yes but not for a vodka cocktail! Not a vodka fan! It's NYC so I can see the high cost and a pricey event! I have paid that kind of rate many times in cities like NYC for cocktails. Even locally in Vancouver. Just dislike vodka. Cheers Steve! Terrific video! Allergic to wheat!! There are chicken Mcnuggets that cost an insane $100 at the US Open.
Yes, I have spent £20.00 on a Brandy Crusta, but it was made with Remy Martin cognac. The lemon peel looked like rose petals and it was served in this great 19th tulip glass. And I was at a great bar in Mayfair.
Everything at The US Open is ridiculously expensive. There’s a hospitality tent for the workers because it’s too expensive for the workers to eat or drink (non-alcoholic drinks) there while they’re working or least when I worked there years ago.
The recipe graphic is spectacularly helpful. I can see a deck of recipe cards with those graphics printed on them. That simple graphic could also be the foundation for a recipe app. I'd buy that one too.
I do have a recipe app but with real drink photos :) I think someone has done the deck of cards with that style of design… I was thinking of doing a deck of recipe cards many years ago but never followed through.. 🤔 shakeandstraincocktails.com
One thing I’ve realized since I’ve started making cocktails is that it takes very little to impress most people, this drink being a perfect example. No strong flavors from something like gin, and raspberry lemonade is not a combo most people associate with vodka. Are they really using chambord? I feel like they’d be using some bottom shelf black raspberry liqueur Idk about making one of these but I’ll definitely be trying that homemade lemonade.
Good lord, $23?! Even with a commemorative cup, that is such an outrageous mark up for such a simple cocktail. There are craft cocktail bars making fat washed cocktails with proper technique and fancy spirits for less than that!
I made this at the boardwalk resort pool bar via Disney world back in 1999. Absolute citron, pink lemonade, chambord. It was a slam dunk for the ladies.
@@TruSuCiO23 I know. I try to only go to upscale cocktail bars in NYC because the bars that serve well drinks are actually no less expensive than cocktail bars. You can go to a dive and get a rum & coke for $15 dollars or you can go to a cocktail bar and get an ornate cocktail for $15
Agreed. If they are using Grey Goose as the base then that sells the price point a bit more for me. It doesn't surprise me it's $23, I'm more surprised it isn't more.
@@SandstormGT yeah but he was commenting on the US open, which is in new york, so i was pointing out that here $23 isn’t ungodly expensive for a cocktail
Same thing is going on in LA, home of the $20+ “craft” cocktail. Drinking fads come and go, just like everything else. Give me a 12 year old single malt any day…
The question should be how much is a bottle of water at the event... Might be $15 :P My melon baller is collecting dust may do this for a hot day with gin though.
Would've been nice if they incorporated the honey dew somewhere in the drink instead of a garnish. The garnish being made to look like a tennis ball though is a great idea!
It's so funny you mentioned buying one because some of the commentators had some fun picking out people in the audience or even just walking around the grounds who had literal collections of the cups they purchased, whole stacks of them🤣 It was all very fun and good, a nice souvenir for a cool event, and who doesn't love a souvenir😉 However, while I agree that the price is ridiculous, more saddening might be how, well, normal that price is in general these days. I live in California, but go to any nice city in most states and you'd be hard-pressed to find a decent bar (not even a high-end one) that serves cocktails for under 15-20 dollars. I mean, I like going out, but pricing has gotten out of control for everything from the food and drinks to automatic tipping, hidden fees, etc...
Can you imagine going to the US Open and they're playing grass ping-pong instead of golf?! I'd definitely be drinking but I wouldn't spend more than $7 US for that.
Just for reference, what does other drinks cost at the US open? What are my options? I mean, if a beer is $5 I wouldn't buy this, if a beer is $20 i might :P
To me this is like the "martini" fad from from the late 90s / early aughts. All the twentysomethings were buying $14 cocktails of flavoured Smirnoff with lemon juice in a martini glass because they associated it with class & refinement, when in reality it was just hipster lemonade. Try to order a proper gin martini and they'd look at you like some time-travelling weirdo.
I live in NYC and tonight I am going to make that drink just so I can footing to laugh at all my friends who paid and bragged about how that drink is worth $23.
Steve most of the cocktails at really good bars here in the states are in the $20 range. A lot of them aren't even that good. I'm actually making a honeydew syrup. Guess I could make a real honey duece
Hi Steve, well done, making this with so much “tongue in cheek”. Yes the melon balls suggest tennis balls, but the drink seems very ordinary. I rarely make vodka cocktails for the Vodka has no real flavour input, just whooomph. Nick from York
$30+ is standard in most US cities, once you add tax and tip, and sometimes other fees. That's why I started watching channels like this and making drinks at home.
@@adashofbitteryep, i work in a bar/restaurant and nothing of ours is cheaper than $15. doubles easily go into $40, especially if customer doesn't want our house spirits (which are our default when making drinks and the cheaper option)
Not sure where you’re drinking, maybe at the Mandarin Oriental or the Four Seasons lobby bars, but $12-15 is more standard even in most decent cocktail lounges. Those higher prices are generally only in really “exclusive” bars, and even then the price for a standard cocktail is typically under $20 except for maybe a handful of cocktails made with highly unique ingredients. For example, I just checked the menu online for Employees Only in NYC (formerly the #1 bar in the world), and all 18 of their specialty cocktails are $19. They have four additional “Fancy Cocktails” (their wording, not mine) priced at $22. At the Velveteen Rabbit in Las Vegas, most drinks are $16, with a couple priced at either $14 or $17. You can get “Today’s Punch” for as little as $10, and they have one option for $40, although the menu notes that it serves 4-6 people…or maybe just one person can have one heck of a fun night with it!? 🫣😉🤣
Yeah if they're mad about that they should see the 24 dollar beers in T-Mobile arena. They're 19 but after tax and tip it's 24 bucks. For a can of beer.
I love this drink, they have something similar on the menu at the Cheesecake Factory called J.W. Pink Lemonade, only no honeydew garish and swap regular vodka for Citron. It’s an easy to drink and simple so I get why it’s so popular.
We do similar variations at home but the base is lemonade made with sparkling water. 1 lemonade frozen concentrate 4 sparkling water 2 vodka - Tito’s these days Then we've done 4 different variations. But try your favorite flavoring. 1. Muddle mint in the glass first (my wife’s favorite) 2. Slap some basil and put it on the ice and pour over it 3. 1/4 St Germain 4. 1/4 Midori 5. Will be the Chambord Obviously, for best effervescence, melt the frozen lemonade with the vodka and pour the sparkling water last or just before the Chambord.
Went to the US open last year as I was in New York and I have to say: absolutely EVERYONE had a honeyduce in their hands so I tried it. And it was so basic, nothing interesting and nothing new. The only reason it worked is because of the garnish
Replace it with 2 ounces of gin, carbonate that homemade lemonade, and add some orange or yuzu bitters or something, and maybe you have a decent drink on your hands.
The thing I’ve noticed about cocktails in the US is that, while they are expensive, they don’t skimp on the spirits. Cocktails tend to be a bit weak here in Oz because of the high duty on alcohol.
I actually think it's quite a smart drink to serve at that kind of event and make A Thing if you can by promoting it, given it's got so much homemade lemonade in it not many people will want to knock back glass after glass of it even if the cost wasn't holding them back so they get a bit buzzed from the vodka but much less than they would if they were knocking back, for example, gin and tonics... (For the algorithm: 🎾)
@@StevetheBartender_Just sounds wrong. Vodka is Polish or Russian. Not saying that other countries can't make good ones but it doesn't sound right to my Slavic ears 😅 As if someone would say: Oh I have this great Turkish whisky 😅
Would you spend $23 usd on a cocktail?
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Judging by Trump being a candidate for president AGAIN, Americans love to be part of a con, even when they are the honey dupes...
NO
Yes but not for a vodka cocktail! Not a vodka fan! It's NYC so I can see the high cost and a pricey event! I have paid that kind of rate many times in cities like NYC for cocktails. Even locally in Vancouver. Just dislike vodka. Cheers Steve! Terrific video! Allergic to wheat!! There are chicken Mcnuggets that cost an insane $100 at the US Open.
Hell no 😅
Yes, I have spent £20.00 on a Brandy Crusta, but it was made with Remy Martin cognac. The lemon peel looked like rose petals and it was served in this great 19th tulip glass. And I was at a great bar in Mayfair.
Everything at The US Open is ridiculously expensive. There’s a hospitality tent for the workers because it’s too expensive for the workers to eat or drink (non-alcoholic drinks) there while they’re working or least when I worked there years ago.
I’d love to see you turn this into something you’d expect from a $23 cocktail! This was fun and informative!
Seconded. How would you improve the drink to justify the crazy asking price, @steve ?
@@Cabin_Pat Sounds like a video idea for Nick from the Cocktail chemistry channel :D
Yes!
Make it a bramble
That was a lovely video. Your reaction was genuinely funny.
Always glad to see new content from you. Keep it up
That’s about $22.22 dollars profit each 💀, I wonder how it fits into the over all margins.
I haven't had many cocktails that were worth the price they sell them for.
Yeah $22 a drink over a year not a shock to me
The recipe graphic is spectacularly helpful. I can see a deck of recipe cards with those graphics printed on them. That simple graphic could also be the foundation for a recipe app. I'd buy that one too.
I do have a recipe app but with real drink photos :) I think someone has done the deck of cards with that style of design… I was thinking of doing a deck of recipe cards many years ago but never followed through.. 🤔
shakeandstraincocktails.com
Probably wouldn't pay $23 for it... But I might fly to Australia so you could make me one.
Let’s make it happen 🙌
One thing I’ve realized since I’ve started making cocktails is that it takes very little to impress most people, this drink being a perfect example. No strong flavors from something like gin, and raspberry lemonade is not a combo most people associate with vodka.
Are they really using chambord? I feel like they’d be using some bottom shelf black raspberry liqueur
Idk about making one of these but I’ll definitely be trying that homemade lemonade.
"it takes very little to impress most people"
Preach!
They are using Chambord and Grey Goose exclusively.
"There's nothing else like it!" cue my wife finding a vodka-raspberry-lemonade on every menu in the country.
@@barstoolbanter7212i can't imagine there's not a (black) raspberry Mike's hard or similar, too
Naming a drink after the garnish instead of its components or what it tastes like is a wild concept to me
True, that is weird.
Same. I assumed it had a honey simple syrup, or some kind of honeydew in the cocktail. Naming it after the garnish is wild.
Part of the price tag is the location. NY, LA, SF. Good luck finding a legit bar that serves drinks under a 15-25 dollar price point for well spirits.
Agreed, was just on the Vegas strip and lots of restaurants are charging similar prices.
So f*cking ridiculous. I’ll drink (better) at home, with my mate Steve the Bartender.
So f*cking ridiculous. I’ll drink (better) at home, with my mate Steve the Bartender.
Good lord, $23?! Even with a commemorative cup, that is such an outrageous mark up for such a simple cocktail. There are craft cocktail bars making fat washed cocktails with proper technique and fancy spirits for less than that!
I made this at the boardwalk resort pool bar via Disney world back in 1999. Absolute citron, pink lemonade, chambord. It was a slam dunk for the ladies.
cocktails in new york mostly no matter where you go are between 15 and 25 dollars. cocktails are expensive here
The worse part some places charge that much and use the "well" bottles and its ridiculous!
@@TruSuCiO23 I know. I try to only go to upscale cocktail bars in NYC because the bars that serve well drinks are actually no less expensive than cocktail bars. You can go to a dive and get a rum & coke for $15 dollars or you can go to a cocktail bar and get an ornate cocktail for $15
Agreed. If they are using Grey Goose as the base then that sells the price point a bit more for me. It doesn't surprise me it's $23, I'm more surprised it isn't more.
Luckily most places aren't like New York...
@@SandstormGT yeah but he was commenting on the US open, which is in new york, so i was pointing out that here $23 isn’t ungodly expensive for a cocktail
That just looks like a vodka Bramble, only not as tasty.
"My balls are a bit wonky"
Same, Steve, same.
I wss searching for this type of comment 😂😂I'm glad I found it
$23 for vodka, lemonade, and chambord is wild.
Absolutely perfect edit for comedic timing. Multiple well placed long pauses. I see you. Commitment to the craft.
That is the laziest cocktail I have ever seen... "There's nothing like this in New York." Really?
I think people probably buy it for the souvenir glass and not so much the cocktail.
The drink is only $7, the glass is Official Merch and is $15.
Same thing is going on in LA, home of the $20+ “craft” cocktail. Drinking fads come and go, just like everything else. Give me a 12 year old single malt any day…
The question should be how much is a bottle of water at the event... Might be $15 :P My melon baller is collecting dust may do this for a hot day with gin though.
I’ve made this cocktail at home, I went a little heavier on the Chambord (1oz). No personal objections, refreshing and enjoyable.
Sad trombone got me! Cheers Steve.
Great to see you having fun with the drinks! The energy in this video was great!
Would've been nice if they incorporated the honey dew somewhere in the drink instead of a garnish. The garnish being made to look like a tennis ball though is a great idea!
kinda weird they call it a honey deuce when it's just raspberry lemonade. seems strange to name it after the garnish.
Thought there would've been some midori in there
And Americans wonder why they’re struggling to pay bills.
$23 per cocktail isn't that rare in NYC, SF, and LA.
But for THAT cocktail? Naaah...
Oh, heck no. But understanding the biz and being in America, I can see why it works.
It's so funny you mentioned buying one because some of the commentators had some fun picking out people in the audience or even just walking around the grounds who had literal collections of the cups they purchased, whole stacks of them🤣 It was all very fun and good, a nice souvenir for a cool event, and who doesn't love a souvenir😉 However, while I agree that the price is ridiculous, more saddening might be how, well, normal that price is in general these days. I live in California, but go to any nice city in most states and you'd be hard-pressed to find a decent bar (not even a high-end one) that serves cocktails for under 15-20 dollars. I mean, I like going out, but pricing has gotten out of control for everything from the food and drinks to automatic tipping, hidden fees, etc...
I live in NYC and $20 and up is kind of the price for cocktails in spots.
And just because i know my other comment will be censored, congratulations. You made a flavored martini....... fml
Don't get too freaked out over the 23 dollars, the bud lights are probably 16...
Can you imagine going to the US Open and they're playing grass ping-pong instead of golf?! I'd definitely be drinking but I wouldn't spend more than $7 US for that.
Just for reference, what does other drinks cost at the US open? What are my options? I mean, if a beer is $5 I wouldn't buy this, if a beer is $20 i might :P
To me this is like the "martini" fad from from the late 90s / early aughts. All the twentysomethings were buying $14 cocktails of flavoured Smirnoff with lemon juice in a martini glass because they associated it with class & refinement, when in reality it was just hipster lemonade. Try to order a proper gin martini and they'd look at you like some time-travelling weirdo.
I live in NYC and tonight I am going to make that drink just so I can footing to laugh at all my friends who paid and bragged about how that drink is worth $23.
Thank you for debunking this drink! I will make my own lemonade raspberry drink for less than two dollars! Hahahaha
This seems like an OK cocktail but nothing really special. The only honeydew is the garnish. I would expect a bit of melon liqueur with the lemonade.
Steve most of the cocktails at really good bars here in the states are in the $20 range. A lot of them aren't even that good. I'm actually making a honeydew syrup. Guess I could make a real honey duece
Sounds pretty close to a bramble, swapping vodka for gin
Maybe rename it Steve...
" THE U.S LEG OPEN...?! " 😜😜
charging 23 dollars for that is a disgrace lmfao...but then again people buy gray goose.
It’s literally just watered down vodka lemonade with some chambord for the pretty colors, smh
Fruit, vodka, pretty color, sweet enough to not taste it. Those were the basic ingredients to good tips in my bartending college job.
Not too surprising at $23 for a cocktail. It isn't like the "poors" are getting tickets to the US Open.
this is basically a highball one extra ingredient and theri charging 23$? its not even a full pour. What the hell.
Hi Steve, well done, making this with so much “tongue in cheek”. Yes the melon balls suggest tennis balls, but the drink seems very ordinary.
I rarely make vodka cocktails for the Vodka has no real flavour input, just whooomph.
Nick from York
This is the most useless video UA-cam has recommended……… No value here. Pure waste of time.
So you need to spend about 350 dollarydoos just to get sloshed? Fuuuuuuuck offff mate
Tried this cocktail and it was so crap! Don’t know what the fuss is about
Your supposed to cup the honeydews each time you take a drink
I was expecting honeydew purée in it
$30+ is standard in most US cities, once you add tax and tip, and sometimes other fees. That's why I started watching channels like this and making drinks at home.
Really??? I always assumed it must be much cheaper than Australia because we tax the hell out of our liquor industry
WTF
@@adashofbitteryep, i work in a bar/restaurant and nothing of ours is cheaper than $15. doubles easily go into $40, especially if customer doesn't want our house spirits (which are our default when making drinks and the cheaper option)
Not sure where you’re drinking, maybe at the Mandarin Oriental or the Four Seasons lobby bars, but $12-15 is more standard even in most decent cocktail lounges. Those higher prices are generally only in really “exclusive” bars, and even then the price for a standard cocktail is typically under $20 except for maybe a handful of cocktails made with highly unique ingredients.
For example, I just checked the menu online for Employees Only in NYC (formerly the #1 bar in the world), and all 18 of their specialty cocktails are $19. They have four additional “Fancy Cocktails” (their wording, not mine) priced at $22. At the Velveteen Rabbit in Las Vegas, most drinks are $16, with a couple priced at either $14 or $17. You can get “Today’s Punch” for as little as $10, and they have one option for $40, although the menu notes that it serves 4-6 people…or maybe just one person can have one heck of a fun night with it!?
🫣😉🤣
@@adashofbitterYeah but the Americans put more booze in their cocktails than we do in Oz.
Hey Steve... What about doing a version that would be worthy of the price tag? You know, give it some STB "Jeuje"!
This is a great idea!!
Shocked that Midori melon is not an ingredient.
I’d be hard-pressed to pay $10 for that drink.
how close is this to cranberry juice and vodka?
Most dramatic video from the channel so far. LOL
it's stadium pricing. By comparison, other cocktails are either $21 or $19. 16 ounce domestic beer is $15. Water is $8.75.
Yeah if they're mad about that they should see the 24 dollar beers in T-Mobile arena. They're 19 but after tax and tip it's 24 bucks. For a can of beer.
My wife would love this… then I would say 🥺
Pass... There are better drinks to make, let alone pay for.
Sheesh! So much for so little. Ridiculous.
The utter disappointment in Steve’s face.
I dont like Vodka Lemon that much.
I made a honey deuce once. No one would pay $22 for it.
How is raspberry lemonade melon themed
A vodka sour with a splash of chambord 🙃
$23.00? Not happening.
"Commemorative Cup" just means they don't want to wash 2 million cups during the process.
Haha exactly!
Au open is way better then us open
A perfect review of a mediocre cocktail.
The signature cocktail at Taylor Swift’s concert is $25. So this price isn’t that crazy
🤯
I have like 7 of those cups in my apartment…my roommate was balling out at the open I guess
Bahahah
So…..is a wheat based vodka not gluten free? I’m asking for my husband.
Distilled spirits are gluten free.
...Cheers for being honest SteveO
Look at all those happy alcholics
I love this drink, they have something similar on the menu at the Cheesecake Factory called J.W. Pink Lemonade, only no honeydew garish and swap regular vodka for Citron. It’s an easy to drink and simple so I get why it’s so popular.
We do similar variations at home but the base is lemonade made with sparkling water.
1 lemonade frozen concentrate
4 sparkling water
2 vodka - Tito’s these days
Then we've done 4 different variations. But try your favorite flavoring.
1. Muddle mint in the glass first (my wife’s favorite)
2. Slap some basil and put it on the ice and pour over it
3. 1/4 St Germain
4. 1/4 Midori
5. Will be the Chambord
Obviously, for best effervescence, melt the frozen lemonade with the vodka and pour the sparkling water last or just before the Chambord.
If you go to the Alligent stadium for a Raiders NFL game a margarita, with recommended tip, comes to about $42 - this cocktail seems like a bargain 😬
Could you use white lemonade like sprite or 7up instead of lemonade.
You could but I wouldn’t recommend it.
Went to the US open last year as I was in New York and I have to say: absolutely EVERYONE had a honeyduce in their hands so I tried it. And it was so basic, nothing interesting and nothing new. The only reason it worked is because of the garnish
The only reason I know any terms is because of Mario Tennis. This might be a good batch drink for parties
They sold roughly 434,783 of these overpriced cocktails
I don't know what I was expecting after you listed the ingredients hahaha. It's just an alcoholic Ribena Juice. Do a riff on how you would make it!
He looks so disappointed
Replace it with 2 ounces of gin, carbonate that homemade lemonade, and add some orange or yuzu bitters or something, and maybe you have a decent drink on your hands.
The thing I’ve noticed about cocktails in the US is that, while they are expensive, they don’t skimp on the spirits. Cocktails tend to be a bit weak here in Oz because of the high duty on alcohol.
I actually think it's quite a smart drink to serve at that kind of event and make A Thing if you can by promoting it, given it's got so much homemade lemonade in it not many people will want to knock back glass after glass of it even if the cost wasn't holding them back so they get a bit buzzed from the vodka but much less than they would if they were knocking back, for example, gin and tonics... (For the algorithm: 🎾)
I had it back in 2014 and I don't remember paying that much for it lol
Always appreciate your work Steve, but I won’t bother with that one. Cheers
Your reaction should be everyone's reaction to something so ridiculous. Great vid 👌
And that's the power of marketing in the most consumerist society on the planet.
so not worth it!!!
Wow, Steve, your channel has come a long way over the years, fancy-smancy! Kudos to you! : )
Using French or Australian Vodka for anything is already an abomination :)
Why?
@@StevetheBartender_Just sounds wrong. Vodka is Polish or Russian. Not saying that other countries can't make good ones but it doesn't sound right to my Slavic ears 😅 As if someone would say: Oh I have this great Turkish whisky 😅