Welsh Brew Tea was recently put to the test in The Great British Tea Test, to find out which part of the country brings us the very best brew.
The Taste Test was published in the Guardian, and the tea was judged by James Green from ‘Tea from the Manor’ who is a genuine expert in tea tasting!
We were incredibly pleased to get 4 out of 5 and were compared to Yorkshire Tea (apparently the nation’s finest mass-produced regional chai) in terms of the quality of the taste. One Yorkshireman, a devoted Yorkshire Tea drinker, could not tell the difference between Welsh Brew and his favourite tea…
“Yorkshire and Welsh are pretty much interchangeable: a discovery confirmed by blind tastings in the Guardian’s Manchester office, where even proud Bradfordian Josh Halliday, a lifelong Yorkshire Tea drinker, was fooled by its Welsh brethren.”
Here are the full results…
Ringtons Gold (£3.97 for 100 teabags) Blended on Tyneside since 1907, Ringtons is my fave: a slightly smoky brew with a bright and golden hue.
5/5
Welsh Brew Gold (£3.69 for 80 teabags) A hearty brew – strong and confident, yet strangely comforting, like a male voice choir. Can double for Yorkshire Tea.
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4/5
Yorkshire Tea (£2.79 for 80 teabags) A no-nonsense brew, befitting a county that gave us Geoffrey Boycott and Sean Bean. Like a Yorkshire terrier: feisty but reliable and surprisingly domineering.
4/5
Kinnettles Gold (£40 for a 20g tin) Grown and hand-rolled on Kinnettles farm in Angus, north-east Scotland, this delicate yellow-green tea bears no relation to any of the above but scores highly for refreshment and novelty value.
4/5
Cornish Tea (£2.99 for 80 teabags) Pleasant enough but lacking in personality. I was expecting more subversion from a tea with the subtitle “smuggler’s brew”.
3/5
Miles West Country Original (£2.50 for 80 teabags) Barely there. Disappointing for a region famed for its cream teas and Cheddar cheese.
3/5
Lancashire Tea (£2.30 for 80 teabags) Odd purplish hue. As satisfying as a weak handshake. Very “meh” for the county of strong women like Thora Hird, Emmeline Pankhurst and Barbara Castle.
