Pukka Vanilla Chai

Cost is generally a little over £2 for 20 individually sealed bags on a tagged string. You can pay more, but there are also some offers of around £1.90. This is very nice. Some other chai teas tend to be a little too assertive with the spices, or powdery/dusty, and some are just a little crude, but this is smooth, gentle, yet very flavoursome, with good warming notes.

Lovely.


Date:  Sept 2016    Score:  7

Pukka teas

Lidl Bellarom Instant Cappuccino

Very sweet with just a hint of coffee. Drinkable and fun, but little connection to coffee or cappuccino. Not quite frothy or milky enough to become a favourite, but quite drinkable if you like a sweet faintly coffee flavoured drink.

Date: March 2019   Score: 3


Box of sachets rather than a tin of powder. It's easy to make and pleasant enough. It's coffee flavoured rather than coffee, but anyone who is drinking a cappuccino is not into coffee anyway, just the coffee flavour. This does have more coffee flavour than the Latte, so I prefer it.


Date: Sept 2016    Score: 3

Lidl Tea & Coffee

Creamy instant coffees

PG Tips Strawberry Cupcake

Picked these up in Tesco. They sell for between £1.00 and £1.40 for 25 pyramid bags. They are part of a new series of green,  and herb and fruit teas by PGTips, a popular black tea brand launched in the 1930 by Brooke Bond, a tea merchant who at one time was the largest in the world, but which is now owned by Unilever. While popular, PG Tips is not thought of as a cool brand or a quality tea brand, so it is interesting that they are moving into the green and herbal tea market. I suppose the green and herbal tea market is growing, and Unilever see the familiar image of PG Tips as a way of getting cautious customers to try something new.

This is a pleasant enough tea There's some sweetness here, but not much character. The sweetness of the strawberry pieces takes the edge off the earthiness of the green tea. It's not something that I would be interested in having again. It's all a bit meh.

Score: 4

Lidl Bellarom Instant Latte

It's soft, milky and drinkable. There's no quality here, and very little coffee, but it's a warm, easy drinking beverage. Mostly harmless.

Score: 2

Lidl Tea & Coffee

Creamy instant coffees