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 2000 Innovative Flavors CEO Mark Dowey recognized the branding potential of the Arnold Palmer drink, and drew up a business plan to present to Palmer's agents at IMG. With approval from Palmer and his team, Innovative Flavors set out to find a large distributor, and found a partner in the Arizona Beverage Company. Ten years later, the brand was on track to reach $100m in sales, representing 10 percent of AriZona's business, and 40 percent of the company's overall growth.

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, Dowey says, have outsold almost every competitor.

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