Top Deck was a range of low alcohol shandy drinks marketed to children in the United Kingdom from the 1960s to the 1980s.BBC News Vanished UK drink is toast of Caribbean, April 2007 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, Carbonated drinks: a report on the supply by manufacturers of carbonated drinks in the United Kingdom, Chapter 8 para 8.51 Approved Food (archived) 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)
The alcohol content was listed on the cans as less than 1.2% (2° proof).
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