- with scrambled eggs (great idea)
- with hot chocolate (even worse idea than the milkshake)
- in curry (another good plan)
- and of course - with pancakes as I originally planned when I ordered this!
The hops and malts combined in the brewing are sported on the back of the can for producing a crisp and clean, juicy and hoppy flavour. It sounds to me like this show stopping lager really does want to Show Off, so what does it taste like?
On opening the bright orange can there was an instant citrus and herbal hoppish smell. I could detect the grapefruit flavours in the aroma from the Chinook hops, mixed with the more tropical flavours from the Simcoe hops, with the somewhat herbal earthiness from the Mosaic hops, which merged with the sweet pilsner malts to finish.
This golden almost straw coloured lager is not too bubbly and poured with a cheerful head. On taste Show Off really comes into its own. The powerful mixture of tropical citrus and herbal earthy hops springs to the fore, creating a biting freshness to begin with. The sweet pils malts and a little wheat merge with these hoppy flavours smoothing their crispness into the aftertaste. This is a complex craft brew from a favourite brewer of mine. It's a proper Show Off ;-)
So the box arrived and it was a cute dispenser in card board, I made myself a coffee and added a serving of of the Snickers Coffee Mate. The drink had a lovely creamy flavour of chocolate and nut, but it was a little mild I added a second serving and ended up with such a delicious coffee. It was mostly like a mocha but the addition of peanut was super soothing too. You really could taste the yummy Snickers.
I thought when this huge box of Coffee Mate Snickers arrived that I had over ordered and that there was a real risk I wouldn’t like it, now I know I need to use two pots per coffee I’m more worried about running out! This is the perfect afternoon pick me up, soothing but still works well with the coffee.
A Cadbury's Twirl Breakaway is two fingers of chocolate, not in an 'up your's' sense, but more of a lean towards the traditional Cadbury's Twirl. These fingers or sticks have swirls and curls of chocolate in between layers of crispy wafer coated with Cadbury's Dairy Milk Chocolate. It sounds pretty good, eh? Well, only if you like wafer. The trouble is... I don't like wafer. I'll likely eat a wafer if someone insults a cone of ice cream with one, but I'd prefer a Cadbury's Flake in a cone of ice cream any day. Having said that, in one ice cream shop I had a stick of fudge added to my ice cream cone, which was amazeballs!
At around 108 calories per stick this Cadbury's Twirl Breakaway is fairly healthy. Having said that, an original Cadbury's Twirl weighs in at 114 calories per stick, so not much difference there. I have worked out quite a bit in the kitchen gym, so I have an original Cadbury's Twirl to eat also, as a sort of compare and contrast.
On opening the Cadbury's Twirl Breakaway there was a crunch from the crispy wafer at the top of the bar. As you can see from the photograph, there is wafer just under the milk chocolate coating at the top and bottom of the Cadbury's Twirl Breakaway stick. The curls and swirls of chocolate give a Dairy Milk Chocolate creaminess mixed with the chocolate coating. The wafer melted in my mouth pretty quickly.
These Cadbury's Twirl Breakaway are a very tasty alternative to an original Cadbury's Twirl, which I rather enjoyed straight afterwards. Both Cadbury's Twirls variations complemented each other very well indeed. Although in a taste versus calories battle I'd go with an original Cadbury's Twirl on its own. They both were washed down with a white hot chocolate drink. Pure bliss.
This sauce is still labelled as medium and as I like garlic too I was looking forward to trying it. We had some chips and squeezed a portion of the sauce on the plate. I dipped a chip in and gave it a taste and thought there was a lot of garlic and that the sauce was quite creamy. Chips and garlic works well together and I was really enjoying the combination and munching away. After a while I noticed the chilli heat was starting to warm up and that there was actually quite a bit of chilli too, it snuck up on me with the warmth but it was a lovely addition. I’d gladly buy this one over the regular Perinaise as I thought the garlic worked so well, especially with chips. I’m looking forward to trying it out on chicken burgers too.
I eagerly tore into the packaging and stared at the sparse plastic tray inside trying to work out how they made a pack with so few biscuits look so big from the outside. Seriously this is all there was in the packet…
Okay the lack of biscuits aside the one I had was gorgeous. There is still lots of that wonderful oat flavour and crunch and the chocolate is increased as the base is covered too but this balance works well. The milk chocolate and golden oat flavour, they are a triumph together. One of these McVities Hobnobs The Fully Coated Ones was very filling too which is just as well really as there aren’t anywhere near enough in the pack!
I enjoyed an American Pale Ale last week. Iconic is another American Pale Ale. This 4.4% volume Pale Ale was brewed by the Williams Brothers' Brewing Company in Scotland. Iconic won the Great Taste Award in 2018. I might be late to the party again on this one, but so is the new President. So we can both make up some time now.
On opening the bottle I noticed that there was a more herbal bitter hoppish smell rather than the grapefruit citrus of last week's Pale Ale. This deep golden Iconic has a sharp almost smoky bitterness to start with. This herbal smokiness travels throughout each mouthful and is touched by the sweet caramel flavours in the malts, which smooth out that crisp smoky bite from the hops into the aftertaste. I must admit that I haven't tasted an American Pale Ale like this Iconic before. I rather liked it. I would certainly agree that it is Iconic. Much like the new President... One can only hope!
I added the milk to the fill line inside the Velvetiser, then I poured in the sachet of Hazelnut Latte and set the machine off. It whirled and hummed away and I poured my finished Hazelnut Latte drink into a mug. I took a sip and was completely blown away by the drink, it was rich and sweet from chocolate, wonderfully nutty and had lovely dark tones of coffee too. The texture was silky and it was just so good. The hazelnut was perfectly balanced, the chocolate was divine and I savoured every sip of this gorgeous coffee. I can’t wait to try out some of the more traditional chocolate varaties too. I know I love a kitchen gadget but this really is something special. :-)
I fully expected this Cadbury's Flake Luxury to taste like Cadbury's Twirl. It looks a little like a Cadbury's Twirl on first biting into it, but the milk chocolate flavour is slightly less creamy and more leaning towards the cocoa side. It's still silky smooth though and disappeared into my mouth pretty quickly, I can tell you. It wasn't at all messy, and so was reminiscent to the Cadbury's Twirl in that sense. It just didn't taste like a Cadbury's Twirl.
I had a Cadbury's Flake straight afterwards, as I workout a lot, so I could get away with the extra calories. And I can concur that it was very flaky but still went mostly in my mouth. I used to eat Cadbury's Flakes in a bowl or on a small plate so I wouldn't drop bits of chocolate everywhere. Having said that, I thought the original Cadbury's Flake is slightly tastier and more had more of a creamy milk chocolatey flavour to it than the slightly cocoa heavy Cadbury's Flake Luxury version, but that maybe just me!
So this Aero Dark Chipotle is a bubbly dark bar with a layer of Chipotle truffle that is a dark red in colour. My bar was broken a little in transit, but I broke a piece off for a closer look at the bubbles. Then I gave it the taste test. The bar is a dark chocolate, and the rich tones of cocoa are the predominant flavour. I braced myself for the chilli and it was very mild. The spicy warmth did grow and even managed a slight heat tingle but it was in no way strong. I prefer this, it managed to add a gentle warmth to the rich cocoa and it gave it a wonderful Mexican feel without it being too spicy to enjoy. I always like the texture of Aero too, with its soft bubbles of chocolate. This was an impressive bar, it wouldn’t be my usual cup of tea but I’m so glad I tried it. It is grown up and different, and a nice change from the 2020 / 2021 trend of chocolate and orange.
So candy floss (or cotton candy as the Americans say) is already pretty sweet anyway being basically heated and spun sugar but this product thought it could do with an extra level and this Dr Pepper flavoured Cotton Candy, which I bought online from an import shop. Inside the bag the candy floss came out in a pressed into the shape of the bag. It didn’t look very appetising, something about the pink colour made it a bit off putting. Brains? I broke a piece off though and it was nice a fluffy once torn.
The flavour is super sweet, sugary and all those flavours of zingy Dr Pepper which is similar to cherry coke but somehow sweeter and sharper, I’d forgotten how much I like Dr Pepper. This is such a fun and sweet thing to eat, it reminded me of fairgrounds and was flavoursome and almost fruity and tart all in one. Yes it will be sweet and sickly for some but for I loved it and I want more Dr Pepper Cotton Candy!
We've talked about this brand Biscolata twice before - about a year apart. Each time they add a little twist to the formula and I have an excuse to talk about them again.