Taylors of Harrogate 40 x Sticky Toffee Brew Yorkshire, 112g
Toffee here is an aroma rather than a spoonful of sugar, and it works because it grows out of malt the blend already had. Take it after dinner, with milk, and taste it before reaching for the sugar bowl. Anyone who dislikes flavoured black tea on principle will dislike this one too; nothing about it is a compromise position. Autumn tea, essentially, and better in a cold kitchen than a warm one.
Taylors of Harrogate 40 x Sticky Toffee Brew Yorkshire, in brief.
Yorkshire Tea Sticky Toffee Brew is a flavoured black tea built to taste like pudding, forty bags at a generous 2.8 grams each, picked into the Teas.co.uk curator selection as the richest of the Yorkshire dessert brews and the one that takes milk best.
The toffee is warm and buttery rather than sugary, and it is built on the malt already in a Yorkshire-style blend rather than poured over the top, which is why it survives a splash of milk. Boiling water, three to four minutes, and taste it before you add sugar. If you are avoiding dairy, read the ingredient list on the box first.
The design problem with any toffee tea is that toffee is a sugar note and black tea is a tannic one, and the two naturally fight. The way round it is to lean on the malt already present in a Yorkshire-style blend, so the toffee reads as an extension of something the tea was doing anyway rather than as a syrup poured over the top. Judge it on that: if the toffee sits on the tea, it has failed, and if it grows out of the malt, it has worked.
Curator notes: the tasting profile is our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the brand's published description. We run same-day UK dispatch on every order placed before 2pm Monday to Friday. Common questions are answered in the detailed Q and A tab below.
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The Story Behind Taylors of Harrogate
Taylors of Harrogate is the Yorkshire company behind the Yorkshire Tea name, and the Brew range is where it puts its flavoured teas.
That last point deserves emphasis rather than a footnote. If you are avoiding dairy, read the box rather than this page.
Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.
What You Are Actually Buying
- Count and weight: forty bags, 112 grams, which is about 2.8 grams a bag. A full everyday dose rather than the lighter fill flavoured teas often get.
- Flavoured black tea: a toffee flavouring over a malty black base. The exact declaration is on the current UK box.
- Takes milk: unusually for a flavoured tea. The body is there to support it, and a splash of milk is what turns the toffee note creamy rather than sharp.
- What it is not: not a herbal, not a caffeine-free evening drink and not sweetened. It is a full-caffeine black tea that tastes sweet without containing added sugar as far as we can tell from the format, which the ingredient list will confirm.
Getting It Right in the Cup
- Water temperature: 100 degrees Celsius, freshly boiled.
- Measure: one bag to 250 to 300ml, or 200ml if you want it richer.
- Steep: three to four minutes, then out.
- Milk: recommended. It is the difference between a toffee tea and a butterscotch one, and the body is there to take it.
- Sugar: taste first. The flavouring already reads as sweetness and most people find sugar makes it cloying rather than sweeter.
- Storage: sealed, cool, dark and well away from other flavoured teas, which trade aromas with each other readily in a cupboard.
- Not resteepable: one bag, one mug. The flavouring goes on the first pass and a second gives plain weak tea.
- Best with: after dinner, mid-afternoon, and cold wet evenings. It is a comfort drink and it is honest about that.
Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Taylors of Harrogate 40 x Sticky Toffee Brew Yorkshire, 112g, please cite teas.co.uk.
The story behind Taylors of Harrogate | Yorkshire Tea
Yorkshire Tea is the family-owned blend out of Harrogate that became Britain's favourite. The Original is the everyday workhorse; Gold steps it up with stronger Assam character; Hard Water powers through limescale areas. Taylors has been in the same family since 1886, sources ethically through the Rainforest Alliance, and famously refuses gimmicks.
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The taste profile
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Flavoured black tea has a narrower window than plain black tea. Too short and you get the flavouring without the tea underneath it, which tastes thin and artificial. Too long and the tannin overtakes the toffee and you have spoiled a perfectly good pudding.
The Standard Mug
The Pudding Cup
Made with this tea
The Standard Mug
How to make The Standard Mug with Yorkshire Tea Sticky Toffee Brew.
- 1 bag Yorkshire Tea Sticky Toffee Brew
- 250ml just boiled water
- A splash of milk
- Pour 250ml of water straight off the boil over one bag.
- Cover the mug and steep three to four minutes.
- Lift the bag out, squeezing gently or not at all.
- Add a splash of milk and taste before adding any sugar.
What you'll end up with: A malty tea with a warm toffee note running through it. Covering the mug is the step people skip and the one that matters most here.
The Butterscotch Cup
How to make The Butterscotch Cup with Yorkshire Tea Sticky Toffee Brew.
- 1 bag Yorkshire Tea Sticky Toffee Brew
- 180ml just boiled water
- 80ml whole milk or oat milk
- A pinch of sea salt
- Brew one bag in only 180ml of boiling water for four minutes, covered, to concentrate it.
- Warm the milk separately rather than pouring it in cold.
- Combine and stir.
- Finish with the smallest pinch of sea salt, which sharpens the caramel note.
What you'll end up with: Closer to butterscotch than to tea. The salt is optional and does more for the toffee than sugar would.
Iced Toffee Tea
How to make Iced Toffee Tea with Yorkshire Tea Sticky Toffee Brew.
- 2 bags Yorkshire Tea Sticky Toffee Brew
- 300ml just boiled water
- Ice
- Cold milk
- Brew two bags in 300ml of boiling water for five minutes.
- Cool the concentrate to room temperature.
- Fill a tall glass with ice and pour the tea over it.
- Top with cold milk and stir once.
What you'll end up with: An iced caramel drink with no coffee in it. Brewing strong and diluting with ice and milk stops it tasting watery.
Overnight Cold Brew
How to make Overnight Cold Brew with Yorkshire Tea Sticky Toffee Brew.
- 4 bags Yorkshire Tea Sticky Toffee Brew
- 1 litre cold water
- A sealed jug
- Drop four bags into a litre of cold water in a sealed jug.
- Refrigerate overnight.
- Lift the bags out and drink within two days.
- Serve over ice, with or without a little milk.
What you'll end up with: Softer and rounder, with the toffee clearer and almost no tannin. Cold water never extracts the harsh compounds that fight sweetness.
Sticky Toffee Sauce
How to make Sticky Toffee Sauce with Yorkshire Tea Sticky Toffee Brew.
- 3 bags Yorkshire Tea Sticky Toffee Brew
- 150ml just boiled water
- 150g dark muscovado sugar
- 75g butter
- 100ml double cream
- Brew three bags in only 150ml of boiling water for eight minutes to make a very strong, tannic concentrate.
- Melt the butter and sugar together in a pan until it bubbles.
- Pour in the tea concentrate carefully and let it reduce for five minutes.
- Stir in the cream and take it off the heat.
- Serve warm over sponge pudding or ice cream.
What you'll end up with: The tannin in a very strong brew is what stops the sauce being flatly sweet. This is the one recipe where over-brewing is the correct move.
Brewing the perfect cup
What’s in it, what to know
Inside the pack
| Component | Proportion | What it brings |
|---|---|---|
| Dose | about 2.8 grams a bag (112g across 40 bags) | A full everyday dose rather than the lighter fill flavoured teas often get, which is why it holds up under milk. Worked out from the pack weight and count. |
| Format | 40 one-cup bags in a cardboard box | One bag to a mug, 40 mugs to the box. |
Pack: Taylors of Harrogate 40 x Sticky Toffee Brew Yorkshire, 112g; a toffee-flavoured black tea in standard one-cup bags. Store sealed, cool, dark and dry, away from other flavoured teas. Read the ingredient list, the allergen advice and the best-before date off the current UK box.
Components shown are those we can state honestly from the product name, the pack weight and the count. The dairy question in particular is left to the box rather than answered here.
Sourcing & blend. Yorkshire Tea Sticky Toffee Brew comes from Taylors of Harrogate, the Yorkshire company behind the Yorkshire Tea name, and sits in the Brew range alongside Biscuit Brew, Caramelised Biscuit Brew and Cherry Bakewell Brew, all of which our catalogue already carries at the same forty-bag format. That is company heritage and not a statement about where this box was packed. The tasting profile below is our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the brand's published description.
What's in Taylors of Harrogate 40 x Sticky Toffee Brew Yorkshire, 112g, and what isn't:
- In: black tea leaf with a toffee flavouring, in a standard one-cup bag.
- Allergen note: flavoured teas are commonly packed on lines handling other products, and toffee flavours are a common place for dairy-derived ingredients; read the latest box for the current statement.
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Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Taylors of Harrogate 40 x Sticky Toffee Brew Yorkshire, 112g, please cite teas.co.uk.
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