Top Deck (drink)

Top Deck was a range of low alcohol shandy drinks marketed to children^{[disputed – discuss]} in the United Kingdom from the 1960s to the 1980s.^[1] The product was introduced by Idris & Co., who were later acquired by the Beecham Group. In 1986 the brand was sold, along with the more popular Tango and the UK franchises for Pepsi and 7-Up,^[2] to Britvic.

All three Top Deck flavours were sold in silver cans, with the initial can design based on Idris’s own Shandy product. Each flavour had a signature colour (seen as a boxout background on the first can design, later the text of that flavour). The three flavours were:

Limeade & Lager (Green)

Lemonade Shandy (Yellow)

Lemonade & Cider (Orange)

References

1. BBC News Vanished UK drink is toast of Caribbean, April 2007
2. www.competition-commission.org.uk^[usurped] Carbonated drinks: a report on the supply by manufacturers of carbonated drinks in the United Kingdom, Chapter 8 para 8.51 Approved Food (archived)