Club-Mate
Club-mate is a German soda which main ingredient is Yerba Mate. For reasons the drink is famous in the hacker and club scene.
The drink itself looks a bit like a carbonated terere. After finding the ]Lag( Mate page I decided to do something similar, but trying to be more similar to chimarrao than the original Club-Mate flavour.
I still did not play with ways of making it carbonated. I will update once I have done it.
Since I’m in Europe, it means that Yerba Mate is more expensive than in Brasil and the (good) Brasilian herb is more hard to find in Ireland, I decided to use Cruz de Malta Yerba Mate as the herb for this drink. The taste is a bit stronger than the Brasilian one.
Before starting, some tips:
- Mate is not green tea! Do not boil the water!! You will burn the herb if you do that. Around 80c is the ideal temperature.
Special Version - The calm mule
Version with calming herbs as well.
- ~0.5L of water
- 1 teaspoon of valeriana
- 1 tablespoon of passion flower
- 10 tablespoon of Mate (this time
Campesino Energy with Katuava and Ginseng) - 8 tablespoon of sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon of molasses
- a bit of black pepper
- a bit of vanilla
- a bit of cinnamon
- a bit of salt
- a bit of clove
- Carbonated water when drinking it
Mix all incredients except the mate in a boiling water for 5 minutes. Let the tempeature of the water go down to around 90C, and add the mate. Leave it to rest for 20 minutes.
Test 3
- ~0.5L of water
- 10 tablespoon of Mate (this time
Campesino Energy with Katuava and Ginseng) - 3 tablespoon of sugar
- 1/8 teaspoon of Citric Acid
- 1/2 teaspoon of molasses
- a bit of black pepper
- a bit of vanilla
- a bit of cinnamon
- a bit of salt
- a bit of ginger
- a bit of clove
- Carbonated water when drinking it
Mix the clove, ginger, salt, black pepper and cinnamon with the 0.5 liters of water, boil it for 5 minutes, let the temperature of the water reduce a bit and add the mate and molasses. Leave it to rest for 20 minutes.
When cold, put in a container witht he citric acid, leave it in the frigde. To drink, add the carbonated water to a glass (half of it) and add the tea you made 😃
Test 2
- ~1L of water
- 10 tablespoon of Mate (this time
Campesino Energy with Katuava and Ginseng) - 3 tablespoon of Maple Syrup
- 1/8 teaspoon of Citric Acid
- 1/2 teaspoon of molasses
- a bit of black pepper
- a bit of vanilla
- a bit of cinnamon
- a bit of salt
Steps
- Make a liter of mate tea (never boiling the water). And leave it for 10 minutes to “rest”
- Mix all the ingredients.
- Drink it cold 😉
Test 1
Ingredients
- ~1L of water
- 5 tablespoon of Mate
- 2 tablespoon of Mapple Syrup
- 1 Tablespoon of Agave Syrup
- 1 teaspoon of Catuaba powder (for energy 😃 )
- 1 teaspoon of Guaraná powder (for energy^2)
- 1/8 teaspoon of Citric Acid
- 1/2 teaspoon of molasses
Steps
- Make a liter of mate tea (never boiling the water). And leave it for 10 minutes to “rest”
- Mix all the ingredients.
- Drink it cold 😉