The Mate Guys: Recent Episodes
The Mate Guys
- Follow-up
- Spotify is broke af
- Canarias as Tereré
- Our prep
- Our reactions
- Our thoughts
- Our other musings about other stuff…
Stephen recorded audio from the wrong microphone. Sorry for that again. 2 episodes with audio issues in a row. So so so sorry :(
- ~~Guayaki~~ Yerba Madre
- La Palma
- Yerba Mate Lab story
- La Palma origins
- Cut
- Flavor
- Yerba Mate Lab Instagram account
- Yerba Mate Lab store
We had some audio issues this episode, sorry for that!
- Special Guest: Daniele Flores
- Relationship with Gaúcho culture
- Project Mate Bar
- Mateko App: A community for materos
- Mateko Store: A store specializing in Brazilian mate
- Daniele’s Instagram
- Follow-up
- Nada
- Madflow
- Their site: https://www.drinkmadflow.com
- Loose Leaf
- Just air dried, organic yerba
- Tea Bags
- Just air dried, organic yerba…in tea bag form.
- Follow-up
- Emails! Huzzah!
- Heretic Yerba
- Their site: https://hereticyerba.com
- Traditional
- Just air dried organic yerba
- Guayusa Blend
- Yerba blended with organic Ilex guayusa from Ecuador
- Guayusa Blend w/ Mint
- Now, with mint!
- Chai
- Yerba blended with chai spices (whole allspice, green cardamom, ginger, cinnamon, black pepper)
- Follow-up
- No one emailed us 🙁
- Issue with Spotify is fixed (for now anyway…)
- Katú pt. 2
- Their site: https://drinkkatu.com
- Rosella (blend with hibiscus, peppermint, stevia)
- We drank this wrong last time. We drank it right this time.
- Ramblings about sweeteners, stevia, allulose…
- Study about allulose
- Yerba Colon Compuesta with the bikini lady (no longer being used)
- Yerba Adelga packaging
- The “prostate yerba”
- Follow-up
- No one emailed us 🙁
- Issues with Spotify (potentially resolved at time of publish)
- Katú
- Their site: https://drinkkatu.com
- Their Products
- Ka’a (traditional, air dried loose leaf)
- Kojoi (roasted)
- Rosella (blend with hibiscus, peppermint, stevia)
- We drank this wrong. Oops! Will rectify in the future.
- Nitro Cold Brew (canned roasted cold brew)
- Nitro Latte (cold brew with MCT oil and agave)
- Not South American brands that are still around (and newish)
- Mad Flow
- Mate Caps
- Native Leaf
- Agua Mate
- Kalmateh
- Not South American brands that have gone out of business recently 🙁
- Inato
- Mate Nativa
- Have not heard a response from them. Most likely dead until proof otherwise.
- Mate Bros
- YMateína
- The online store: Yerba Matero
- Show Notes:
- Who are we?
- Where are we?
- Who are you?
- Today’s Episode:
- The Stanley mate system…
Follow-up Giveaway winner What chimarrão is available in the UK? FD La Especial and La Potente Company Cut Blended herbs Flavor
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Follow-up None Reflecting on the last 5 years of mate drinking I’m not doing an outline for this Sorry
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Follow-up If we were to start a brand of our own, what would it be like? What is the history of gourd sizes/shapes? When did the fancy silver ones come into being? Why did so many brands start in the last half century? Armiño Company/shenanigans Cut Flavor Use code “mateguys15” to get 15% off of...
In which we have enough follow-up to make up for the last year and then talk about Cultyvada Moída Grossa.
In which Clark's audio is messed up and we talk about a Ruvicha Chia blend which may or may not actually contain chia.
In which Stephen screws up the audio again and we ramble on. Eventually even about Campesino Cedrón.
In which we talk about water quality, how it affects your mate, as well as Piporé Sublime. Thanks to our friends at Tango Foods USA.
In which we wax poetic about how our relationship with mate has been over the last 10 years.
We talk about a yerba from Argentina called Titrayju and why you should form opinions on your own and not buy into the hype too much,.
In which Stephen didn't edit this in time to be uploaded in August. Whoops. Oh, we talk about La Tranquera too.
We talk about Barão Organic and once again fail to break our shortest episode length record.
In which we talk about a yerba that has a terrible name: Selecta Moringa, Cola de Caballo y Burrito.
We talk about Sara, a hot young lady from Uruguay. Actually a 100 year old yerba. Gotcha.
In which both mics are facing the right direction and we talk about Campesino Menta y Limón.
In which we talk about The Bachorlette and Barão Export. Which one we talk about more, is yours to find out...
We address some claims and talk about Kurupí Compuesta. "La verdadera bebida del verano"
We talk about Guayaki Traditional, one of the most iconic North American Yerbas. Guest appearance by Mr Cat.
In which we discuss the Paraguayan yerba Pajarito and subconsciously wonder if it's "barbacua" or "barbacuá"...
We talk about Canarias, "el mate de mi país". Well not our país, but of someone's país.
We talk about companies based outside of South America, deal with a bit of audio hum, and a crowd of giggling girls.
Talking about Brazilian chimarrão while extremely tired. Bonus points if you can hear Stephen's Apple Watch rudely pinging during the episode.