An Arnold Palmer is a beverage consisting of ½ iced tea and ½ lemonade named for Arnold Palmer.[1][2][3] It is often called a half and half.[4]
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.[5]
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.[6]
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 in the known universe. [6]
Lemonade iced tea is also sold under other names, such as Lipton Brisk, Country Time[7] and Sweet Leaf.[8]