Yorkshire Tea – Biscuit Brew and Toast & Jam
Happy New Year Tea People! Let’s kick off the new year with a brace of Yorkshire Tea blends reviews, shall we?
Yorkshire Tea Biscuit Brew
I was very excited when I first discovered Biscuit Brew in the supermarket. I used to stockpile it in the tea cupboard, in case it was only a limited edition thing and its days were numbered. Back then, if you’d asked me, I would have said that this was best a biscuity-flavoured tea could be.
But this was back in 2018, long before I became the Tea Fancier. I didn’t even know that such things as biscuit-flavoured teas were possible, so of course it knocked my socks off.
I have learned so much about life – or at least tea – since then. While I still retain a fondness for Yorkshire Tea’s Biscuit Brew, I am now acquainted with teamongers like Bird & Blend and SaChasi, who not only make biscuit-inspired tea blends of their own but do them so much better.
Yorkshire Tea Toast & Jam
Presumably flush with the success of their Biscuit Brew, Yorkshire tea released a Toast & Jam blend in 2020. This tea does indeed taste of both toast and jam.
In fact, the jam aspect of it presents a bit of a puzzle. To me, it tastes like raspberry jam while my daughter insists that it’s strawberry. I put the question to other tea lovers on my Instagram page, and opinions seemed to be pretty evenly divided.
I tweeted Yorkshire tea in order to get a definitive answer and they responded: “It’s a secret”. I think we can therefore deduce that it is, in fact, a generic ‘red jam’ flavour.
It’s a perfectly satisfactory tea but, again, there are other jam-based teas out there that do the job better. T2’s Hot Jam Brownie and Birdhouse’s Jammie Hearts spring to mind.
I’m pleased that these teas are out there, though. They’re readily available in supermarkets and bring bakery-inspired brews into the mainstream. Maybe they’ll serve as a gateway drug and inspire tea drinkers to check out other weirdy jam, cake, biscuit and crumble tea blends. There are certainly a lot out there.
Today’s featured book is E Nesbit’s The Railway Children which was set in Yorkshire and contained a lot of toast-and-jam-eating-type action.
Haven’t seen the toast and jam tea bags in my local Morrisons shop. Have they been discontinued?
Good question. It’s still there on the Yorkshire Tea website (https://www.yorkshiretea.co.uk/our-teas) but on Sainsbury’s, there’s fancy new packaging for the Biscuit Tea, a new Caramelised Biscuit brew, and no sign of Toast and Jam. Mind you, I’m all for teamongers discontinuing teas. Searching for no-longer-available teas seems to be the main way that people find this website. Sometimes I even get blamed for the tea’s discontinuation which makes me feel terribly important.