Montreal Tea Festival – Tea #13
There were two yerba mate booths at the festival that we saw, this one and one carrying yerba mate RTDs (more on those later) – and I found both really interesting! I own a traditional mate gourd, and I like mate a lot but I’ve probably only used my gourd a total of three times in the four or five years I’ve owned it!? You use a decent amount of mate when brewing in the gourd, so I can’t really use it when I only buy like 25-50g of mate from a company to try out. But really, the main problem is that I haven’t found a good yerba mate to buy where I haven’t had to purchase something crazy like a minimum of 750g of it! Yerba mate isn’t very dense – that’s a whole lot of mate!! And I don’t know where the hell I’m gonna store it, it’s not like I’m drinking mate daily…
So, I was really hoping to find at least one mate here I could pick up, since they were selling in 220g increments – which seems like the perfect amount! This was one of two blends they were sampling hot; I got a chance to try both of them and of the two I preferred this one. It’s got a bit of that smoky grassy/herbaceous mate note, but ultimately I found it very smooth and the mint, while subtler than anticipated, was nice and crisp/refreshing. I like the idea of a nice mint/mate combo to start off the morning with, so based on the sample I tried I did actually end up picking up this flavor – along with a third flavour that I didn’t get a chance to try but that smelled fucking INCREDIBLE.
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Did they have their silicone gourds out? I’ve never drank yerba mate traditionally but I just went to their site and am intrigued.
They did! They looked pretty cool, though I didn’t pick one up because I have a traditional one already (that I already underutilize, so didn’t feel like I needed another). They also had a range of more traditional ones for sale too, but I don’t see them listed on their website.
I think they’re the same design as these ones and they have good reviews https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072BW23NW/ref=sspa_dk_detail_0?pd_rd_i=B01CNWZPFM&pd_rd_w=tn4rS&pf_rd_p=45a72588-80f7-4414-9851-786f6c16d42b&pd_rd_wg=1eENB&pf_rd_r=8C9T7N7008A2ZPENEJXV&pd_rd_r=d20b0558-1b60-4489-8f01-9e69184d352a&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUEzODlIUkNEREUwVDNTJmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUEwMDY3NjM2MTc5UkdKTllRWU1ITSZlbmNyeXB0ZWRBZElkPUEwMTcyMjc4Mk9ITTlXNzVPWTI2MyZ3aWRnZXROYW1lPXNwX2RldGFpbCZhY3Rpb249Y2xpY2tSZWRpcmVjdCZkb05vdExvZ0NsaWNrPXRydWU&th=1
Yes, this looks like the same thing! :)
Did they have their silicone gourds out? I’ve never drank yerba mate traditionally but I just went to their site and am intrigued.
They did! They looked pretty cool, though I didn’t pick one up because I have a traditional one already (that I already underutilize, so didn’t feel like I needed another). They also had a range of more traditional ones for sale too, but I don’t see them listed on their website.
I think they’re the same design as these ones and they have good reviews https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072BW23NW/ref=sspa_dk_detail_0?pd_rd_i=B01CNWZPFM&pd_rd_w=tn4rS&pf_rd_p=45a72588-80f7-4414-9851-786f6c16d42b&pd_rd_wg=1eENB&pf_rd_r=8C9T7N7008A2ZPENEJXV&pd_rd_r=d20b0558-1b60-4489-8f01-9e69184d352a&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUEzODlIUkNEREUwVDNTJmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUEwMDY3NjM2MTc5UkdKTllRWU1ITSZlbmNyeXB0ZWRBZElkPUEwMTcyMjc4Mk9ITTlXNzVPWTI2MyZ3aWRnZXROYW1lPXNwX2RldGFpbCZhY3Rpb249Y2xpY2tSZWRpcmVjdCZkb05vdExvZ0NsaWNrPXRydWU&th=1
Yes, this looks like the same thing! :)