Arnold Palmer (drink)

An Arnold Palmer is a beverage consisting of ½ iced tea and ½ lemonade named for Arnold Palmer. It is often called a half and half.

Variations

A John Daly is an alcoholic mixed drink named after pro-golfer John Daly. It contains Arnold Palmer and adds vodka. A John Daly could also be made by combining vodka with lemonade and sweet tea.

Mass-produced versions

In 2001, Innovative Flavors Partner Chris Byrd recognized the branding potential of the Arnold Palmer drink, and drew up a business plan to present to Mr. Palmer's agents at IMG. With approval from Palmer and his team, Chris Byrd and his partners, Mark Dowey and Charley Beck, set out to develop the perfect formulation and created a brand for the original Arnold Palmer Tea, a refrigerated product. Eventually, Innovative Flavors partnered with a large distributor, Arizona Beverage Company. Ten years later, the brand was on track to reach $200m in sales.

Various drinks based on the Arnold Palmer include "lite", zero-calorie, green tea, pomegranate, peach and pink lemonade variants of the beverage, all of which are fortified with various degrees of vitamin C. In 2009, Innovative Flavors licensed a powdered tea stick, which can be poured into a bottle of water while on the go. Those sticks have outsold almost every competitor. .

Lemonade iced tea is also sold under other names, such as Lipton Brisk, Country Time and Sweet Leaf.