Beginning on Feb. 4, Bravo TV’s “Summer House” started its fifth season, and reality star Kyle Cooke, co-star and fiancé, Amanda Batula, and housemates are “quaranteaming” and partying in the Hamptons. However, this time around they’ll be imbibing with beverages Cooke created with help from Batula: Loverboy Sparking Hard Tea and Loverboy Spritz. The better-for-you, zero-sugar added, lower calorie premium craft cocktails grew out of Cooke’s desire to stop consuming “diabetes in a bottle” and high-calorie flavored malt beverages (FMBs).
He explains: “I run a weight loss app and I know that the average adult gets 20-30 percent of their calories from alcohol. I’m on a summer TV show, consuming sugary alcohol and trying to keep my summer body in shape. … I started buying hard seltzers and hard teas when we were filming in 2016, and was unimpressed with the taste and woke up with the worst hangovers — not a great look for the camera. I thought there had to be a happy medium.”