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@paul

Absolutely. In my mind, the #1 and #2 reasons why Americans don't drink tea is that they use crappy tasteless Lipton teas, and they don't properly BOIL the tea. (As in, using just-boiled water, not boiling the tea leaves themselves. That's just cruel. XD)

Interestingly, some teas don't take to boiling water well. #YerbaMate specifically wants 60-70 or maybe at most 80°C, IIRC.

BTW, have you ever made #SunTea? It's amazingly smooth. Just put a couple teabags in a glass jug or jar and set it outside on a sunny day (if you get those, heh) for a few hours. It tastes super smooth like cold brew, but it's much, much faster to brew. Pour it over ice and enjoy.

I got some empty teabags and fill it with nice Sadaf loosleaf black tea and a couple crushed caradmom cloves, and I add Stevia in my tumbler. Absolutely heavenly.

W takie skwarne dni, yerba mate, oh yeah! #yerbamate #NoblezaGaucha

#yerbamate

Baldo tastes similar to Canarias in the afternoon, which I like. #yerbamate

#yerbamate

Hoy finalmente me trajeron las cosas que me hacen bien: Yerba mate y Pălincă, una bebida alcohólica de 80 grados de Transilvania.
#transylvania #yerbamate #spiritshigh

#yerbamate #baldo

Mint #YerbaMate made terere style with "cold brew" fruit tea (hibiscus, blueberries, I think raspberries) is surprisingly nice :)

#yerba #tea @tea

Ja po prostu KOCHAM #yerbamate #yerba #mate

Kolibri und Mate.

#peru #unterwegs #travel #photography #animals #kolibri #mate #yerbamate #inkas #spirit

A Good mate 🧉

#furry #yerbamate #yerba_mate #drink #feline #anthro #doodle #male #wizard #magic #fantasy

With the #yerba I'm drinking I'm getting closer and closer to "just dried grass" flavour 😂 Just finished a package of Kraus, and just opened a package of Meta Mate, both dried with just hot air, without smoke as is usually done ("smoked" is a separate category, and for me leaves an aftertaste of smoked mackerel 😅)

#tea #YerbaMate @tea

I don't know if it's a #yerba #yerbamate thing, or a #caffeine thing, but if you haven't given it enough fuel to burn (I.e. "eaten something") the results are rather unpleasant.

Lo siento Uruguayans, creo que yo prefiero mate de Argentina! Mi madre tiene un mate de Uruguay (Abuelita) y tuve que probarlo. La yerba es más fina y eso fue un experienca muy interesante pari mí. La primera probada fue muy fuerte! Después la sabor fue más suave, pero estaba difícil para tomar con todo ese polvo!

#mate #uruguay #argentina #yerbamate

Sorry, Uruguayans, but I think I prefer Argentine mate. My mum just got her hands on a Uruguayan blend (Abuelita), so I had to try it. The finer cut of the yerba makes for an interesting experience. The first mouth full almost felt like a kick in the teeth, it was so full on! It settled down after that, but the fine cut also makes it harder to just casually sip at. It feels like an effort to get that water flowing throught bombilla

#mate #uruguay #argentina #yerbamate

Sipping yerba mate and about to watch The Salute of the Jugger with Kaity. A perfect way to spend a rainy Sunday afternoon!

#jugger #rain #yerbaMate #mate

The different methods of preparation influence to a certain extent the value of the product, the mate prepared in Paraguay being considered the best, that of Oran and Paranagua very inferior. The leaves when dried are packed tightly in serons or oblong packages made of raw hides, which are then carefully sewed up. These shrink by exposure to the sun, and in a couple of days form compact parcels each containing about 200 lb of tea; in this form it keeps well.

The tea is generally prepared for use in a small silver-mounted calabash, made of the fruit of Crescendo, cujete (Cuca) or of Lagenaria (Cabaco), usually about the size of a large orange, the tapering end of the latter serving for a handle. In the top of the calabash, or mate, a circular hole about the size of a florin is made, and through this opening the tea is sucked by means of a bombilla. This instrument consists of a small tube 6 or 7 in. long, formed either of metal or a reed, which has at one end a bulb made either of extremely fine basket-work or of metal perforated with minute holes, so as to prevent the particles of the tea-leaves from being drawn up into the mouth. Some sugar and a little hot water are first placed in the gourd, the yerva [sic] is then added, and finally the vessel is filled to the brim with boiling water, or milk previously heated by a spirit lamp.

A little burnt sugar or lemon juice is sometimes added instead of milk. The beverage is then handed round to the company, each person being furnished with a bombilla. The leaves will bear steeping about three times. The infusion, if not drunk soon after it is made, rapidly turns black. Persons who are fond of mate drink it before every meal, and consume about 1 oz. of the leaves per day.

Either not just customs but chemistry itself have changed radically in the last century or the Britannica is just bullshit.

Yes, I hear you: again?

(It's somewhere in Vol. 17 of the 11th Edition. It's in the Archive. Searchable even. You know where to find it. My notes say "pages 877-878" but that could be anything. Anyway, it's right after Master, Master and Servant, Mastodon, Matador and Matamoros, among many such delightful entries. Too tired right now to give you the exact chapter and verse. Hit me up in a few days if you really need it.)

#Paraguay #Brasil #Brazil #Argentina #Uruguay #Mate #YerbaMate

Gestern kam neuer #Tee und außerdem zwei neue Kalebassen aus Keramik. Den #Mate habe ich bisher aus einer doppelwandigen Edelstahl #Kalebasse getrunken, mir dabei aber regelmäßig die Zunge verbrannt.
Die Keramik liegt besser in der Hand und der Tee ist schneller genießbar 🍵

#yerbamate #yerba #calebaza

@lerk
> die Idee, daß allein durch Einsatz #erneuerbareEnergien die Armut verschwindet, etwas zu schlicht. Es braucht vielerlei Maßnahmen.

Auf jeden.
Vor allem aber gehen einem diese ganzen "Gemeinplätze" a la "Schaut euch die #Uruguay'er an, die können das!" ohne genauer zu hinterfragen "was, wann, wie und warum wo" gelinde gesagt "auf den Sa**" (oder die Eierstöcke) geht.

Und spätestens jetzt, im nach hinein, schaut mensch und sagt sich:
"Dies oder das hätte anders gemacht werden müssen".

Oder:
"Warum hab ich uns (also denen) das Buch vom Scheer nicht übersetzt?"

> Da verbiegt sich meine bombilla.

Hör bloß auf, hier steigen die #yerbaMate Preise weil bei euch gerade #clubMate Mode ist ..

🧉

@BlumeEvolution @koenigdickbauch @lassegismo @Lamal @maholtz @amerika21

two nights of labour but the family #yuletide gifts are finally ready!

everyone we know drinks #tea and #coffee so we wanted to give something different, south american #yerbamate. 100% none of them tried it, so we bought a matecup and bombilla straw, bundled with 6 different infused taste profiles that we've split and bagged plus one bag of fancy #chocolates.

hopefully it's not so bad. we did try one and it was pretty mild, a bit of a reminiscent of #matcha.

#christmas #yerba #hotbewerage

OK, I could really get used to yerba mate I think. Question: do you generally drink mate instead of coffee or alongside it? Coffee in the morning, mate in the afternoon?

#Argentina #yerbamate #mate #coffee

2nd batch of my diy #clubmate journey. Several improvements so far! First of all I reduced the tea portion to 50g, so I can have more iterations with the supply I have left. Also reduced the temperature to 70°C, which made the result less bitter. 75°C was too hot. Thanks for the recommendation @FlockOfCats to make multiple brews with the same leafs to squeeze everything out. I was able to get 2,3l product out of 50g - thats insignifically less than on my first batch with 100g. #tea #yerbamate

I was thinking about "tea physics". How much water do I need to get everything out the leaves when batch brewing? Example: a) 50g leaves + 1l water b) 50g leaves + 2l water. Would a and b taste the same, when b is boiled down to the same volume as a? Or if I dillute a to the volume of b? Is there a point of saturation? #tea #yerbamate

Którą to kawę już sobie zrobiliście ... ja 2 kawy i 2 kubki yerba mate #kawa #wtorek #yerba #yerbamate