The drink is a nice one-off – but I know where I’d prefer my biscuits to actually be next time I make a hot cuppa
I follow plenty of Instagram pages that make it their mission to scout the supermarket shelves for some of the new and exciting products available to try. Sometimes they’re winners, other times they don’t look good enough to try.
One thing that caught my eye this week however was the latest creation by Yorkshire Tea. The popular tea company has added a new flavour to its line-up of brews – Caramelised Biscuit.
The cuppa claims to taste like “those caramelised biscuits you can’t stop eating once you’ve started”. The tea has been a hit online, with many keen to get their hands on a box to try for themselves.
I’m not normally a flavoured tea person – settling for a standard cup when we’ve run out of coffee. But this was worth my attention given as I’m a huge fan of Biscoff.
The tea is available only in Morrisons stores at the moment. A 40 pack of tea bags will cost you £2.30 but they’re currently part of a 2 for £4 offer that runs until July 23, meaning you could grab them along standard Yorkshire Tea.
Assuming something like this might trick my brain and help me manage the amount of biscuits I plough through, I thought I’d give it a try. Getting my hands on a box was harder than I thought it’d be as it took three trips to different shops to actually get my hands on a box.
You get a smell of the flavoured tea as soon as you open the box. There’s not a chance you’d miss the caramel scent hitting your nose, which already got me excited to down a cup.
At first, trying it black had a much stronger flavour, but had my senses and my brain seriously confused and overwhelmed. I knew what it was supposed to taste like, but it felt more like I was smelling the flavour rather than tasting it.
I gave the cup a second chance to redeem itself as I did see lots of people online adding the usual milk and even a dash of sugar so made it like a normal cup of tea (dash of milk and one sugar). I thought this would defeat the point – and I was right – as it just made the drink taste a bit sweeter.
In my opinion, it did nothing to the actual ‘Biscoff’ flavour that cut through a second or two after swallowing. So while the taste was definitely there, it didn’t compare to the real deal
I remember feeling pretty similar when I tried the standard Biscuit Brew (which should have prepared me for this). There’s that age old saying isn’t there – ‘if it’s not broke don’t fix it’.
I wouldn’t say the drink was horrible, but I can’t see myself picking another pack up again. It was a nice novelty as a Biscoff fan, but I think I prefer my biscuits where they belong – on the side for dunking.
