Yerba Mate Appreciation Thread

[Martin Blank]

http://www.hungryinberlin.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/yerbamate.JPG

Post your brand and why you love it so.

[¿Que?]

awwwwwwwwshit. My not-girl doesn't wanna see me. My car breaks down on the highway.

But then there's this thread :)

A couple of decent American brands, (but nothing beats the real thing. My fav. has already been posted).
http://ecoconscious.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/guayaki-logo_1.jpg

http://revimgs.bevnet.com/media/pixie_mate/images/20083181127260.pixie.mate-%C2%AB.rgb.logo.hires.jpg

Warning: These American brands will do strange things with maté, like mix it with herbal teas and shit. If you have to go for the American brands, make sure you get the one's labeled "traditional."

EDIT: I usually just seep it in a tea bag or use a pressure coffee maker if I have loose leaf. This is known as "maté cocido" (cooked maté) because you don't use the "maté y bombilla" (gourd and metal straw as in the picture in the OP).

[Veg_Athei_Socialist]

Yerba mate is great. My favorite brand is eco-teas:

http://api.ning.com/files/as9yA9Quhed5Tde0okjC2mU0flK0eCcMDFeSzt7qNcsbNQ-K0T4zSiX0tgxMp-4Jai2vxXuJfRgRFgACPrHpydwJHijRmvqt/ecoTeas.gif

It has an interesting "herby" taste to it which I like.

[Ele'ill]

I never understood the attraction. Have I just had mixed or really bad yerba mate?

[¿Que?]

I never understood the attraction. Have I just had mixed or really bad yerba mate?
Well probably both. But there is one brand that I believe is from Argentina that I got a hold of from somebody recently, and it was either old or I don't know what, cuz it was foul.

EDIT: The brand was Taragui. It's from Argentina, but like I said, it may have just been old.

[KC]

Fucken hipsters

[Pirate Utopian]

Is this some kind of hippy tea?

[¿Que?]

Fucken hipsters

Is this some kind of hippy tea?


The infusion called mate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mate_%28beverage%29) is prepared by steeping dry leaves (and twigs) of yerba mate in hot water, rather than in boiling water like black tea. Drinking mate with friends from a shared hollow gourd (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calabash) (also called a guampa or mate in Spanish, or cabaça or cuia in Portuguese) with a metal straw (a bombilla in Spanish, bomba in Portuguese) is a common social practice in Argentina (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentina) among people of all ages,[3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerba_mat%C3%A9#cite_note-2)[4] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerba_mat%C3%A9#cite_note-3) Uruguay (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguay), Paraguay (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraguay), Chile (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chile), eastern Bolivia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivia) and southern and western Brazil (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil)[5] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerba_mat%C3%A9#cite_note-4) and has been cultivated in Syria (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria), Lebanon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanon) and Jordan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerba_mat%C3%A9

[¿Que?]

FTW
http://blogs.clarin.com/blogfiles/la-voz-del-algarrobo/che_mate1.jpg

[Widerstand]

http://www.gearfuse.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/mate.png

Mate soda!

[KC]

Hipsters are into it because it's something brown people do

[Martin Blank]

I was introduced to it 10 years ago by a visiting Argentine Trotskyist who was staying at our house. I had my own guampa and bombilla, and kept Cruz de Malta around all the time (the comrade from Argentina drank Canarias, but I thought it was too weak). During one of the many moves we had to undertake, I lost it all. But I went into the local Middle Eastern grocery where I'm living now and, lo and behold!, they had everything I needed to pick it up again for a good price.

[Wanted Man]

I had it once last year, when I met someone from Argentina. Good stuff. No idea where to find it here, though. I believe the Argentinian ordered it from back home.

[Sasha]

http://www.gearfuse.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/mate.png

Mate soda!


oh yeah! club mate! the drink of revolutionaries!
some dutch squatter dude started an import company for that from germany so now most squat bars in the netherlands stock it, i think squat bars are even the only place to get it in the netherlands. basicly the movement now runs on that shit :thumbup1:
so sad i'm not drinking caffiene anymore :crying:

[Omi]

oh yeah! club mate! the drink of revolutionaries!
some dutch squatter dude started an import company for that from germany so now most squat bars in the netherlands stock it, i think squat bars are even the only place to get it in the netherlands. basicly the movement now runs on that shit :thumbup1:
so sad i'm not drinking caffiene anymore :crying:

Hell yeah club mate is the way to go. Ideal to take with you to demos and such aswel, nice caffeine glow and its in glass bottles. Which is good for the environment, you know.:D

[Raúl Duke]

I had mate infused in tea and had mate soda (materva) and I really like this stuff.

Materva is regularly sold in Miami and sometimes in Puerto Rico

But I don't think I ever had the opportunity to drink the regular kind, or only had done it one or twice (and it was pretty good).


Hipsters are into it because it's something brown people do Well I'm as hispanic as el che so....

[Tavarisch_Mike]

Two coups of strong yerba mate and you can run a whole marathon!
Besides my impretion is that hipsters are more into esspreso or maybe chai-tea.

[Raúl Duke]

Besides my impretion is that hipsters are more into esspreso or maybe chai-tea. True, but if one is a trend-setter you can make all the hipster friends get on the yerba mate train.

It's foreign (depending on where you are, who you are), from Latin-America, slightly "new/different/exotic" to North Americans and Europeans, also Che Guevara drank it.
some band-wagon hipsters will probably like it for some or all these qualities

[Magón]

Well I'm as hispanic as el che so....

Where there's a fuckin' paradox for you. Hipster and Hispanic. :lol:

[An archist]

oh yeah! club mate! the drink of revolutionaries!
some dutch squatter dude started an import company for that from germany so now most squat bars in the netherlands stock it, i think squat bars are even the only place to get it in the netherlands. basicly the movement now runs on that shit :thumbup1:
so sad i'm not drinking caffiene anymore :crying:

Ahh, funny, all the people in Belgium where talking about it too, never made the link between that stuff and the stuff my chilean friends drink.

[Wanted Man]

Is it at all possible to drink something simply because you like it? Oh wait, that can't be it. You've got to either hate foreign stuff or be a hipster scumbag, right? Jesus Christ, leftists can be judgemental pricks sometimes.

[Tavarisch_Mike]

True, but if one is a trend-setter you can make all the hipster friends get on the yerba mate train.

It's foreign (depending on where you are, who you are), from Latin-America, slightly "new/different/exotic" to North Americans and Europeans, also Che Guevara drank it.
some band-wagon hipsters will probably like it for some or all these qualities

Dont forget to make the connection with the gauchos in the same way Marlboro did with cowboys.

[Widerstand]

Is it at all possible to drink something simply because you like it? Oh wait, that can't be it. You've got to either hate foreign stuff or be a hipster scumbag, right? Jesus Christ, leftists can be judgemental pricks sometimes.

But if desires are socially constructed, it is entirely possible that you only like it cos you're a hipster and it's obscure. Just sayin.

[REVLEFT'S BIEGGST MATSER TROL]

seems like some lame enviromental tea thing

[KC]

Is it at all possible to drink something simply because you like it? Oh wait, that can't be it. You've got to either hate foreign stuff or be a hipster scumbag, right? Jesus Christ, leftists can be judgemental pricks sometimes.

This is exactly what a hipster would say. Hipster.

[¿Que?]

I drink maté in the morning because Coffee upsets my stomach. I've also been drinking it all my life because I am Argentino by birth. So, I can't speak for anyone else, but if it wasn't for all the hipsters drinking it, I would have to drive 20min out of town to get it. So thank you maté drinking hipsters. You serve humanity well.

[Il Medico]

I've never had it. I just tried chai tea. Not a huge (hot) tea drinker.

[Magón]

Dont forget to make the connection with the gauchos in the same way Marlboro did with cowboys.

Hmm.. South American "Cowboys" v. American Cowboys? Interesting...

[¿Que?]

Had a "Busy Bee" Today. I was going to get straight up maté, but the girl in front ordered it, and she was cute, so I asked her about it (even though I already knew what it was) and ordered one. Gross.

For those not in the know, a "Busy Bee" is Yerba Maté mixed with OJ and honey. Not recommended unless you're feeling adventurous. Actually, wasn't that bad, I think I just wanted straight up maté tho.

[the last donut of the night]

mate is only really common in the south of Brazil, as there's a lot of shared culture with Uruguay/Paraguay/Argentina in that area. I've never really had it, la unica hierba que he probado es la que se fuma

[Martin Blank]

mate is only really common in the south of Brazil, as there's a lot of shared culture with Uruguay/Paraguay/Argentina in that area. I've never really had it, la unica hierba que he probado es la que se fuma

You really think the DEA can't read Spanish? :D

[the last donut of the night]

You really think the DEA can't read Spanish? :D

i'm in brazil now, whole different issue now :D. although drug enforcement here is stricter than in america

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

Cha dam yen (Thai iced tea) is better. It's the greatest tasting drink on earth.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2158/2006124040_90620d553f.jpg

[the last donut of the night]

You really think the DEA can't read Spanish? :D

holy shit what the fuck happened you're a global mod now

[Martin Blank]

holy shit what the fuck happened you're a global mod now

I've been all three for almost a year now. Just noticed?

[the last donut of the night]

I've been all three for almost a year now. Just noticed?

your name wasn't red before

[Tablo]

I'm an American that drinks hot tea. Guess it's okay since I'm, mostly, of British descent. Foreign drinks are nice though. Easier for me to handle than foreign foods.

[¿Que?]

http://www.erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=52921

LOL. Smoking Yerba Maté!!!!

Well, I guess it kind of looks like weed. I think the guy is full of it, though.

[Veg_Athei_Socialist]

I just had a large mug of mat'e this morning. Great way to start the day:thumbup1:.

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

i'm in brazil now, whole different issue now :D. although drug enforcement here is stricter than in america


o_O

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

mate tea is actually largely consumed all over brazil. like yerba mate but prepared like normal tea, with boiling water and served in tea cups
just because we don't carry around the little gourd and a thermos with hot water everywhere like the fucking barbarians in the south doesnt mean we dont drink mate
i perfer conventional tea tho. black, green, white, herbal whatever

[¿Que?]

mate tea is actually largely consumed all over brazil. like yerba mate but prepared like normal tea, with boiling water and served in tea cups
just because we don't carry around the little gourd and a thermos with hot water everywhere like the fucking barbarians in the south doesnt mean we dont drink mate
i perfer conventional tea tho. black, green, white, herbal whatever
SzYRvaD-xkQ

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

it was, er how do you say?
joke

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

i'm in brazil now, whole different issue now :D. although drug enforcement here is stricter than in america

are you the guy from brasilia?

[¿Que?]

I know. I'm actually rotfl.

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

but seriously if you ever go to uruguay, paraguay or argentina...
you'll see mothafuckas just walking around everywhere with their little fucking gourd and their little fucking thermos under their arm like it's a cell phone they must have with them at all times. it's wonderfully provincial and hilarious especially in montevideo and buenos aires where they all think they're so fucking european and cosmopolitan, the bourgie whiteys with their cheese and wine, fuck em.

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

I know. I'm actually rotfl.

where are you from/live comrade?

[¿Que?]

where are you from/live comrade?
I'm originally from Buenos Aires. I live in the US now, and have been for a long time.

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

sudamérica is where it's at, compañero
return to la pátria, ditch los yanquis imperialistas

[¿Que?]

sudamérica is where it's at, compañero
return to la pátria, ditch los yanquis imperialistas
I've considered getting my PHD there, after I finish my Master's. Unfortunately, my reading and writing skills are horrible in Spanish, and I don't know how good I would do. But possibly there might be work there, not really sure. Basically, I have thought about it.

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

you can always teach english like me
the pot comes cheap and the living is easy

[¿Que?]

you can always teach english like me
the pot comes cheap and the living is easy
Might look into it. :thumbup1:

[RedAnarchist]

Out of curiosity, I'm currently trying some Cruz de Malta yerba mate. It's good.

[Property Is Robbery]

This is the best. I love it because it's delicious but the fact that it's Organic and Fair Trade is a plus.

https://secure.guayaki.com/images/uploads/product/RTD%20SHIP%20UNSWEETENED.jpg

And I love the Guayaki tea bags too! Great thread :thumbup1: