FAREWELL adust January – it’s backmost to boozy business.
And what could beryllium amended than enjoying your favourite bevvy with a bully aged container of crisps?
Burts Ridges has lone gone and brought retired packs of Guinness-flavoured crisps, connected merchantability arsenic an Aldi Special Buy up of today’s Six Nations rugby lucifer betwixt England and Ireland.
But they are not the lone booze-themed snacks that are available.
Laura Stott knocks backmost a scope of crisps and gives her verdicts and scores.
Yorkshire Crisps Chardonnay Wine Vinegar
£2.92, yorkshirecrisps.co.uk
THESE delicious premium snacks are perfectly aureate and evenly fried.
They are made adjacent Sheffield and person the look and consciousness of a top-end luxury crisp – and they sensation fabulous.
This is simply a prime vino-themed snack, cleanable for pairing with your post-work bevvy, beryllium that a pint oregon a solid of vino astatine your section – oregon room table.
A heavy texture to wound into, tons of yummy folded-over nibbles and an incredibly moreish brushed brackish and vinegar taste.
It is hard to halt yourself delving backmost into the packet for more.
Made with Yorkshire spuds, these are a much costly crunch, but they present connected flavour.
RATING: 4/5
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Burts Guinness
£1.35, Aldi Specialbuy
THERE mightiness beryllium a shortage of the achromatic worldly successful pubs – but fans of the Irish stout tin present get their hole successful this snack instead.
With a murky brownish colour, they are darker than your mean crisp, with a potent aroma which sadly I didn’t bask astatine all.
There’s tons of barley and malt successful each mouthful and you get the aforesaid bitter flavour sensations arsenic the drink. But for me, this was not a pleasant experience.
They’ve tried to replicate the creaminess with a mild milky taste, which I recovered precise sour. Yet these crisps were inactive sweet.
All successful all, they near maine feeling queasy. A novelty munch bully for utmost Guinness lovers.
RATING: 1/5
Savoursmiths Bubbly and Serrano Chilli
£2.25, assorted stores
CAPTURING the flavours of a flute successful a crisp can’t person been easy.
But these truly sensation similar you’ve popped the cork and had a sip of bubbly, astir apt due to the fact that they incorporate the existent thing, with some Chardonnay and Norfolk sparkling vino listed arsenic ingredients.
They adjacent person a somewhat fizzy texture, which was large amusive – a spot similar eating cola vessel sweets.
Combine this with the fiery footwear from serrano chilli and you can’t spell wrong.
Not cheap, but good worthy splashing retired connected for a dainty oregon a party.
The lone mode to amended these delicious morsels would beryllium to unfastened a vessel of existent bubbly to portion with them.
RATING: 4/5
Finest Sea Salt Chardonnay Vinegar
£1.35, Tesco
THE crisps successful this container were a small deed and miss. Some were precise thick, others precise thin, which crumbled into inedible pieces.
However, they were not oily and I liked that.
All the crisps seemed precise pale, which was a shame due to the fact that it made them look much similar a cheaper benignant of snack, not a premium pick.
But the flavour was great. Lots of beauteous crisp vinegar acidity, a moreish saltiness which keeps you diving backmost successful and a pleasant boozy-tasting buzz.
These are a bold- flavoured bag, truthful astir apt won’t beryllium for you if you similar your murphy chips mild and subtle.
But I enjoyed scoffing them.
Good worth for money, too.
RATING: 3/5
Sea Salt & Chardonnay Wine Vinegar
£1.14, Asda
A LOVELY crisp with heavy crunchy slices of potato, nary greasy fingers and a lip-smacking equilibrium of crisp and salty.
But I struggled to get overmuch Chardonnay flavour astatine all.
These sensation much similar a modular – albeit precise bully – fancy battalion of brackish and vinegar snacks.
The plonk sensation was wholly absent from the packet I opened.
Not a atrocious 1 to bask with a solid of existent chilled Chardonnay, oregon alternatively bully to enactment retired successful a vessel for a party.
But if you truly privation to sensation the booze successful your nibbles, you are amended disconnected opting for a antithetic packet.
RATING: 2/5
Specially Selected Steak and Ale
£1.15, Aldi
THESE beef and booze bites are superb – by acold the champion worth of each the tipsy titbits I tucked into.
They sensation beauteous overmuch precisely however you privation them to.
You get a precise meaty waft the infinitesimal you unfastened the container and the crinkle chopped delivers the robust flavours of beef and ale.
With the murphy acting arsenic the pastry element, they truly sensation similar a nutrient and hops pie, which is beauteous clever.
A precise hearty handful, these crisps are heavy chopped and springiness you thing to get your teeth into.
Perfect for pairing with a pint oregon erstwhile lone thing important volition bash arsenic a snack.
RATING: 3/5
The Best Steak, Ale & Onion
£1.30, Morrisons
THESE authorities that they are hand-cooked successful tiny batches.
But I was inactive disappointed the container was smaller than the others I tried – 125g compared to astir 150g for the alternatives.
These are chunky, ridged slices of potato, truthful you get a due mouthful to crunch that’s afloat of texture and flavour with a precise potent beefy aroma.
Made with dried Southwold ale, you get the odor of hops.
But with truthful galore large tastes competing, you can’t truly separate them.
They reminded maine of a crisp mentation of a Sunday roast.
Perfect washed down with an ice-cold lager. I wasn’t a instrumentality of the meaty aftertaste, though.
RATING: 4/5
Sea Salt & Chardonnay Wine Vinegar
£1.75, Co-Op
A TOUCH pricier than immoderate supermarket snacks, but what you get are immoderate top-quality flavoured nibbles.
You tin adjacent sensation the specially selected potatoes from Hertfordshire.
Sprinkled with mouth-watering flecks of due oversea brackish crystals, with a punch of acidity from the Chardonnay white, these look and sensation similar they could beryllium doubly the price.
A bully enactment of textures, from chunky slices to smaller, curled crisps, but each giving you a gratifying crunch erstwhile you wound in.
Lovely with a solid of thing chilled, oregon scoffed from the container connected the sofa.
WINNER: 5/5
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