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Yerba Mate, anyone?

Cerpin Taxt

Cerpin Taxt

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I just received my gourd, bombilla, mate and scoop from an online order made a little while ago. I guess I still have to "cure" the inside of my gourd, but I had a mate out of it anyway and it tasted alright.

The gourd I got was a little smaller than I had thought it was going to be, but it's pretty nice nonetheless, and it'll do the job.

Anybody else like mate?

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DixyCrat said:
ayahuasca tea?
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Nah. Think of it like green tea, South American-style.

It is traditionally consumed out of a gourd with a bombilla like I have pictured above. The mate herb is packed inside around the straw which has a built-in filter. Then the gourd is filled and re-filled with hot water, and the tea is imbibed through the filtered straw.

Read-up in the Wiki page I linked above. The yerba mate herb has a number of beneficial chemical constituents that are extracted when brewing the tea. Literally 80% of Argentinians consume mate regularly, as in almost daily.
 
Cerpin Taxt said:
Nah. Think of it like green tea, South American-style.

It is traditionally consumed out of a gourd with a bombilla like I have pictured above. The mate herb is packed inside around the straw which has a built-in filter. Then the gourd is filled and re-filled with hot water, and the tea is imbibed through the filtered straw.

Read-up in the Wiki page I linked above. The yerba mate herb has a number of beneficial chemical constituents that are extracted when brewing the tea. Literally 80% of Argentinians consume mate regularly, as in almost daily.
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What does it taste like?
 
eldorado99 said:
What does it taste like?
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It's hard to describe (of course), but if I had to characterize it, I would say it is a bit "earthy" and "grassy" tasting, with definite "herb-y" flavors. It can be somewhat bitter like coffee is, but not overpowering. It's sort of an acquired taste, and in Argentina people sometimes sweeten it with sugar or add milk. I like it straight, myself. 🙂

I'm pretty sure you can get yerba mate in loose-leaf tea and teabags that you can brew like any other tea, or even brew in a french press. I understand that it is important to brew with water that is NOT boiling hot (212F) but just below boiling (180F-190F).
 
Cerpin Taxt said:
Nah. Think of it like green tea, South American-style.

It is traditionally consumed out of a gourd with a bombilla like I have pictured above. The mate herb is packed inside around the straw which has a built-in filter. Then the gourd is filled and re-filled with hot water, and the tea is imbibed through the filtered straw.

Read-up in the Wiki page I linked above. The yerba mate herb has a number of beneficial chemical constituents that are extracted when brewing the tea. Literally 80% of Argentinians consume mate regularly, as in almost daily.
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Ah; interesting article. Better for you than coffee and just as eye-opening 🙂
 
Cerpin Taxt said:
It's hard to describe (of course), but if I had to characterize it, I would say it is a bit "earthy" and "grassy" tasting, with definite "herb-y" flavors. It can be somewhat bitter like coffee is, but not overpowering. It's sort of an acquired taste, and in Argentina people sometimes sweeten it with sugar or add milk. I like it straight, myself. 🙂

I'm pretty sure you can get yerba mate in loose-leaf tea and teabags that you can brew like any other tea, or even brew in a french press. I understand that it is important to brew with water that is NOT boiling hot (212F) but just below boiling (180F-190F).
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I've thought about trying it as my father was working on a house once with an Argentinian contractor who drank this stuff on his coffee breaks and he explained it all to my father. We've both been kind of wondering what that stuff tastes like since then.
 
eldorado99 said:
I've thought about trying it as my father was working on a house once with an Argentinian contractor who drank this stuff on his coffee breaks and he explained it all to my father. We've both been kind of wondering what that stuff tastes like since then.
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Ah, he should've shared it! Mate drinking is so prevalent in Argentinian culture that it's almost a social ritual, and there are even some general rules of etiquette to sharing a mate among friends.
 
Not a big fan of mate. The whole sharing thing just freaks me out.

<===lived in Buenos Aires for 7 years.
 
I love yerba mate.

note: It has a slightly different caffeine that stimulates your muscular system more than your nervous system, so you get that "feel good" and "awake" feeling without the jitters.
 
Never made it myself. The pre-made Yerba is pretty good. Expensive though.

It seems to have a better caffeine pickup than coffee and its stronger than tea.
 
My roomate feed me that crap last week. My shit smelled so bad for the next two days I almost vomited on myself whenever I had to drop a deuce.
 
I had a mate (dunno how to make the accent on a US keyboard) tea blend from Teavana before I knew better. I really like the flavor. It isn't tea OR coffee but maybe somewhere inbetween.
 
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