Tea, Yerba Mate & Cold Weather
 

Cool weather has finally struck the Carolinas. Cooling off doesn't mean no more coffee in the morning - it just means:


(woo hoo)

I broke out the teapot and the neat tea mugs with lids this weekend. Darjeeling leaves are all over the counter and the mate is lined up for a sipping Sunday kind of thing. Special thanks to Seangar and MithShrike for teaching me the joys of green teas and yerba mate.

You be tea?

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Lapsong Suchong is my cup o tea. Yerba Mate nice and nutty. I'm a loose tea drinker, usually get my stuff from UPTONs in MA.

I have been using a chai mix with vaniolla soy that just rocks!
Tom

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I was surprised how much I grew to like mate after just a few cups. I lean to a small amount of honey in mine.

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I need to get my typhoo and PG tips soon

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Yes you do. A cool avatar isn not always enough.

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do you like my avatar :D

I love Typhoo and PG tips, those british types know what they're doing when it comes to mass produced teas

Twinings has some good ones, the Black Prince or whatever it's called it nice

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I've been a tea drinker most all my life....Boy!
There was no one to chat with about this...
:)
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Tom

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I'm enjoying a nice cup of Genmai-cha right now! Its doing the trick for me after a long walk in the pouring rain soaking my feet! :D

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YAAAAY :dance::dance::dance::dance:
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:dance::dance::dance::dance:

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Made some mate' today that Mithshrike sent me last year. The first couple of times, I made it with too hot of water right away, and got a bit discouraged because it turned out horribly bitter, today, I got a nice smooth mate' from the french press, just had to put enough cold water in the leaves to temper them a little from the hot water.
Good stuff.

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My afternoon-evening favorite; they have decaf too.

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:tu

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just had my first cup, deeeelishus

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He got me on the program, too. I got to like it real quick like. And after pot #1 I figured out that a pre-stir with cool water and well-off-the-boil water to top up really did matter. :)

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Ah good. More Mateneers. :tu

It's been a little while since I've had mate. I've been trying to avoid the stimulants (heart murmur and TIAs have been bugging me) but I think I'll have some tomorrow.

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Yep, mellow, tasty, and buzzy.

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Everyday - after lunch it is either Chinese Pu Ehr (rose petal), Monkey King or White tea. It is not weather dependent for me.

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Im right with ya nova!!!!!


So my conclusion....

TEA PASS!!!!!:bx

Tea Pass!!!!!:bx

...TEA PASS!!!!!
:bh:ze:bh

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Settle down Sammy... Perhaps decaf tea pass for you?

I also played around with my mate' today and added a little 1% milk and some Peppermint Torani syrup, it was a nice combo.

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LoL this is true.. but when i normally only drink my tea Gungfucha style, or Pure- straight up.. no added sugar, honey, no Nota' the caffeine has never really affected me...

But Mate' eh.. thats one think i may have to venture into trying one of these days :dance:

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http://www.yerbamateteagourd.com/

http://www.yerbaguru.com/catalog/

Those two sites are what I use. Although with my now limited intake of stimulants I don't order so much. Yerba Guru is kind of a backup, Yerba Mate Tea Gourd normally has a better selection and inventory.

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Do you all use the gourds as well?
i need to know how to run this haha
- With chinese tea, Gung Fu Cha, Yixing, or Gaiwan, i got it nailed haha :bx

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I have a gourd and bombilla, a portamate, and a French press. The gourd is nice if you want the traditional consumption. The French press is really smooth and great for introducing your friends to it. The portamate is a great on the go solution and it is very close to the gourd/bombilla flavor profile.

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http://www.cigarasylum.com/vb/showthread.php?t=3867
Love to have some of you aboard :salute:

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Just as aside, it looks like Yerba Mate Tea Gourd has shut down. If the page is correct, both owners has died and now it just redirects to a blog page that the children are using to get comments from people.

Or am I missing something?

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Your missing ME.. P'nIYB!

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Oh no ****... I haven't ordered from them in a while. Karl was cool and occasionally would smoke a stick. We had some good convos.

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Gawdamn...

It took me some time to find a place that had good pricing.

http://www.goyerbamate.com/

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So Matt, care to give a brief overview for those of us that aren't well-educated in the ways of Yerba Mate? I understand it's tea-like.. but to what degree? Do you need the gourd? Can you steep it like regular tea and enjoy it as such?

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Picked up a box of PG Tips special blend today, can't wait to have some in the morning

loove me some tea

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anyone drinking any tea around these parts?

I'm on a large mud of PG tips special blend with a couple tsp of sugar and a wee dram of cream

deelishus

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Oh yeah - the tea is on every night in the winter at the Moo place. We just finished up a long run of chinese green teas and, right now, we're drinking some very nice black tea (Assam and Golden Monkey) with a little chocolate/chili (very zingy) black tea mixed in.

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I've been drinking tea daily for the past few days, as it hasn't climbed above about 22 for the week

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Gotta like tea on a cold day; I make it at work a few days/week in the winter.

PG Tips seems to have a lot of fans. What's the appeal? Good and easy?

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I don't have any fancy words for the review, it's just good.

nice "tea"ness, I dunno, I haven't consumed a lot of different teas, mostly PG tips, typhoo, and some different Twinings blends

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Pg Tips....= Yerba Mate?
Still VERY NEW to this, but to tea- Ya damn right ive been drinking it!

First because of this Strep/Wahooping Cough scare- then just none stop sinus problems with the -43 weather we have been having. Now its up to the 7 mark, so... Decent :hn:tu

Straight chinese greens/ a little oolongs, trying more pu-erh, but with out my Yixing i dont like venturing in that direction :D

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I've been drinking the lemon/ginger herbal from Twinings. Tasty stuff, now I just need to find more of it as I'm going through the tea too fast (so far the bag will only do one extract, second one is far too weak). Anybody know of good bulks similar to Twinings?

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My roomate is a big Mate drinker. he bought this brew thingie called an Ingenuitea? and it is just awesome..I will stick with the French press

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been hittin the chai lately, yuuum yuuum