He said it’s clear, neutral and about a quarter the strength of vodka. “So if you go to a 7-Eleven and they don’t have it, ask for it,“ he said.Ĭooke said he found hard seltzers boring and set out to make his line of hard teas more flavorful. It’s sweetened naturally, he said, from fermented sugar cane and classified as a beer so it can be sold anywhere beer can be sold. “It’s so bad for you,” said Cooke, who turned his entrepreneurial attention to creating his no-sugar “guilt-free” line. He said when hard seltzers became popular, he enjoyed them but didn’t like seeing 30 grams of sugar listed on the side of the cans. He said his future father-in-law adds whiskey to the lemon ice tea, you can “do a little floater” of tequila in the hibiscus pom, or “vodka will work with all three of them.”ĭeveloper of an app to connect people with nutritionists, Cooke said he eats clean and works out during the week, then lets loose on weekends with his friends and cast mates in the Hamptons. Cooke said you can drink it out of the can, or use it as a mixer with spirits. It comes in three flavors, White Tea Peach, Hibiscus Pom and Lemon Iced Tea. “Carbonated like a seltzer, but with the light refreshing taste of an iced tea, Loverboy marries the perfect balance of organic brewed tea, botanicals, and monk fruit, with gluten-free alcohol to create a keto-friendly 4.2% ABV drink you can sip all day and night,” Cooke’s company pitches. Loverboy is advertised as a 90-calorie, zero-sugar sparkling hard tea “with all the flavor and none of the guilt.” “We have a strong social following,” said Cooke, adding that an additional email list, of hundreds of his New Hampshire contacts, allowed him “to make some noise” when he launched in his home state. Cooke said early buyers have been “Summer House” viewers who, for the past two seasons, watched him and his fiance Amanda Batula, develop the sparkling hard tea line, some of which is shown in episodes of the show. “We keep running out,” said Cooke, a native of Manchester.Ĭases were stacked near the door of the Gary’s Beverages Route 1 Bypass store in Portsmouth last week when a customer buying one said he heard about it from a friend. “It’s a tasty, fun drink,” said Cooke, 38, a four-season member of “Summer House” that showcases young New Yorkers blowing off summer steam at Hamptons houses.Ĭooke launched Loverboy in New Hampshire last month, sold a truckload in two days and it was out of stock for a week before he could get more distributed. Loverboy Spritz is available to purchase online now, but will not ship until April 20.Cast member of the Bravo TV show ’Summer House,“ and perennial Rye regular, Kyle Cooke developed a line of sparkling hard teas branded “Loverboy” now being sold in New Hampshire. As her fans know, she is a devout Aperol Spritz drinker. Now that he’s finessed his perfect drink, he tapped “Vanderpump Rules” star Stassi Schroeder to be the first person to try it on Instagram Live tonight at 9:30 p.m. Cooke says his product only has two grams of sugar, while the summer go-to has 15-20 grams, which gives you a “gnarly hangover whether you know it or not.”Īnd while initially he set out to make a healthier version of an Aperol Spritz, he said, “It’s literally impossible…they say, ‘It’s a secret 1919 recipe.’ But in reality, you just never want to know what’s in Aperol.” The Bravolebrity told us he created the new drink to be a substitute for the sugar-laden Aperol Spritz. I’m just gonna crack open a beer, rose or even a sparkling hard tea.’ So it’s worked well that it kind of fell upon the lockdown.”Īcknowledging the hefty price tag however, he added, “A lot of people are like, ‘What the f–k? Like, I just got fired and you’re trying to charge almost six dollars a can?’ So that part of the timing sucks.”Ĭooke explained the price was out of his control though because he’s fronting the entire cost of making and selling the drink. I’m not going to spend 20 minutes making it. I don’t drag myself to three different stores to get the ingredients and, B. “Of course, being locked down … It’s like, ‘Wow, I’d love a $15 drink that my mixologist just whips up for me, but, A. It had nothing to do with the pandemic,” Cooke told Page Six on Thursday. “The goal was to launch it at some point while the show was airing. The 37-year-old reality star, who already has a line of sparkling hard tea called Loverboy, says his new drink, which will sell in a pack of 12, is “a premium product.” “Summer House” star Kyle Cooke is about to launch a new blueberry lemon spritz cocktail - for the cool price of $69.
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