2 TB in a mate gourd (maybe 125 mL of water) half a packet of stevia, no milk.
Innnnnnnn-tense. I love roasted mate drunk with groud and bombilla: very rich and concentrated. Roasted mate with malt and cocoa: YUM. Definitely for slow sipping. Some bitterness, some — oddly enough — distant banana flavour, and some distant mint/green/vegetal flavour that I normally only detect on green mate. Some pipe toboacco scent, too. Yum to the E. Can’t wait to try this brewed as a tisane to compare. Maybe tomorrow. Not sure my body can handle much more mateine/caffeine right now.
Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C
5 min, 15 sec
67 is the rating for the tisane version. The gourd-n-bombilla brew earned a 97, I think.