Steep Information:
Amount: 3 tsp
Water: 22 ounces filtered boiling
Tool: Cast Iron Teapot with Mesh basket strainer
Steep Time: a little over 5 minutes
Served: Hot
Tasting Notes:
Dry Leaf Smell: green tea, vegetal
Steeped Tea Smell: green tea, vegetal
Flavor: sweet, vegetal, green tea, followed by astringency and a touch of bitterness
Body: Medium
Aftertaste: slightly bitter and astringent
Liquor: translucent yellow-green
The steeped mate doesn’t look too different from the dry mate.
Really similar to green tea, only you don’t get the same fast caffeine high and crash after – it’s more a little bit of energy to keep you going. However, I don’t suggest this as a wake up cup because it doesn’t kick you awake and say FUNCTION! I do think it would be an excellent follow up cup(s) after your wake up brew.
images: http://amazonv.blogspot.com/2010/04/teas-etc-loose-leaf-mate-tea-yerba-mate.html
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I need my first cuppa to kick me awake too.
yea…it’s hard to get going with a mellow cup of tea
Don´t use sugar to drink it!!! it tastes horrible with sugar!
@Cecilia what about honey? it seems to need a little extra something and i think milk would hide the flavor completely
Hi I’m Cecilia, I have this profile too. I don´t recomend any honey neither but try it out. When you prepare yerba mate with hot milk it’s called mate cocido and children can drink it too, they say it´s delicious!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYYHmskxpa8&feature=related
Watch this video it explains how yerba mate is supposed to be drank!
I don’t have the gourd but can certainly try the wet then steep – and i have a filter straw
So is this a whole different taste than Teavana’s My Morning Mate??
the green mates are not roasted and very much more green tea than the roasted ones – sort of like how black tea isn’t green tea…
I need my first cuppa to kick me awake too.
yea…it’s hard to get going with a mellow cup of tea
Don´t use sugar to drink it!!! it tastes horrible with sugar!
@Cecilia what about honey? it seems to need a little extra something and i think milk would hide the flavor completely
Hi I’m Cecilia, I have this profile too. I don´t recomend any honey neither but try it out. When you prepare yerba mate with hot milk it’s called mate cocido and children can drink it too, they say it´s delicious!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYYHmskxpa8&feature=related
Watch this video it explains how yerba mate is supposed to be drank!
I don’t have the gourd but can certainly try the wet then steep – and i have a filter straw
So is this a whole different taste than Teavana’s My Morning Mate??
the green mates are not roasted and very much more green tea than the roasted ones – sort of like how black tea isn’t green tea…