This box of PG Tips Special Brew was one of many filling a reduced shelf in my local Tesco. From the start it doesn’t have all that much going for it.
1. There is a lot of it on the reduced shelf.
2. Its name is reminiscent of tramps favorite, Carlsberg Special Brew.
3. Its PG Tips.
But in the interests of fairness I gave it a try.
The wierdest thing about it is the strange colour. Its almost a yellowy gold colour, the same colour as the box, a colour that tea normally only turns if your milk is off. Not that far off from Carlberg Special Brew infact. The colour of this tea really put me off trying it at first and I had to take a few sips to make sure that it tasted ok. Several cups later I concluded that the tea was meant to be that colour.
Despite what the box would have you believe, the taste is nothing special, but, it is good. This is altogether a ‘nice’ tea. After a box of the stuff I couldn’t really come up with much more of a conclusion than that. Its ‘nice’. The main benefit of Special Brew is that its better than standard PG Tips, which quite frankly is a piece of shit, so that doesn’t say too much.
Next week I will be reviewing PG Tips White Lightning.
PG Tips Special Blend gets 4 out of 10.
